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chimerical_brio

Member

Registered: 2008-07-20

Posts: 38

What to backup

What do you all think are the essential files to backup on a system? Things like rc.conf, rc files in home directory, etc. What're your essentials?

Allan

Pacman

From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,498

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Re: What to backup

/etc/profile
/etc/rc.conf
/etc/rc.local
/etc/sudoers
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
~/.bashrc
~/.inputrc
~/.xinitrc
~/.Xmodmap

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SkonesMickLoud

Arch Linux f@h Team Member

From: The D of C

Registered: 2008-09-20

Posts: 178

Re: What to backup

Ideally, everything.

bender02

Member

From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: What to backup

For system files, I backup
/etc
/var/lib/pacman/local
/var/log/pacman.log
/root
+ all personal config files (i have them in one dir, with symlinks to $HOME)
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adds up to less than 5mb (bz2 compressed)

Procyon

Member

Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 1,819

Re: What to backup

~/.everything
Find problems with: (in MB)
du -s -B 1000000 $(find ~ -maxdepth 1 -iname '.??*') | sort -rn | less

~/bin
/etc/conf.d/
/etc/iptables/
/etc/asound.conf
/etc/hosts
/etc/lilo.conf

anything that has a .pacnew find /etc -iname '*.pacnew'

pacman -Qe > /back/up/packagelist

fukawi2

Ex-Administratorino

From: .vic.au

Registered: 2007-09-28

Posts: 6,231

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Re: What to backup

/root/
/home/
/usr/local/
/etc/sudoers
/etc/hosts.allow
/etc/modprobe.conf
/etc/ntpd.conf
/etc/issue
/etc/issue.net
/etc/passwd
/etc/group
/etc/rc.conf
/etc/rc.local
/etc/fstab
/etc/resolv.conf
/etc/bashrc
/etc/syslog-ng.conf
/etc/logrotate.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/
/etc/skel/
/etc/security/limits.conf
/etc/ssh/sshd_config

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