[wellylug] what to back up?

[jamie]

/var/log

useful to back that up for security reasons.

definitely do /etc because if you cock a config up you have something to
fall back on.


jamie

On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 15:22 +1200, nic wrote:

> Hi people
> 
> I have quite a lot to do with a bunch of key Linux servers. I'm not quite responsible for 
> them, but I do get asked things like 'what should we be backing up?'.
> 
> I know the obvious data directories, but I was thinking about the other things that are 
> less obvious, like /etc, /var/spool/cron, and /usr/local/bin (of course people only put 
> their dedicated scripts there...)
> 
> What else would you experts suggest? Would you bother with /etc, or just take some key files?
> 
> I don't think there's a requirement to have a replacement machine up and running in 5 
> minutes. I'd expect they'd be happy with a couple of hours to load the OS, restore from 
> tape (or another machine) and some manual configuration, but it's the references for the 
> manual configuration, or the raw files so that the amount of configuration can be 
> minimised, that I'm interested in.
> 
> And if it makes any difference to your suggestions, there is a _lot_ of capacity on their 
> tape system, so the odd 100 Mb here or there doesn't matter too much
> 
> All comments appreciated
> 
> Nic C-L
> 
> 
> 
> 
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