On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:14:39PM +0000, Tyler Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Related to another post concerning the possible demise of my
> harddrive, I thought I'd better confirm with wiser people that my
> backup plan is doing what I think it's doing.
>
> I've got a full backup of all my important data in tar.gz files on my
> harddrive and burned onto cds. I want to backup everything that has
> been modified since the last full backup, so I use:
I would suggest, from painful experience, that in addition to your full
backup, you backup in plain text to some removeable media:
/boot/grub/menu.lst
/etc/ (if going to something big like USB stick)
or if going to a floppy:
/etc/fstab
/etc/modules
/etc/hosts
/etc/inittab
/etc/network/interfaces
/etc/modutils/ (except arch)
/etc/modprobe.d/
/etc/resolv.conf
if using ppp:
/etc/ppp/
/etc/chatscripts/
output of:
/sbin/fdisk -lu for each drive
/sbin/sfdisk -d for each drive
/usr/bin/dpkg --get-selections
Then last (just incase drive dies now) output of:
/bin/df --si
/usr/bin/du -c --si --max-depth=1 /*
Personally, I have /boot/grub/menu.lst printed out.
Good luck.
Doug.
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