Dear all, I am a newbie to this list and also a newbie to linux. I am seeking advice of anyone who has knowledge/experience of disaster recovery of a linux server. I have a production linux box running RH6.2, and since it is running proprietary unsupported software (Groupwise WebAccess using Apache-Jserv to be specific) I have no idea if any updates I do to the box will break it. Hence, I need to know how to recover the server in the event that it breaks, and I need some ideas to get me started since I have not done disaster recovery on linux before. I am currently doing backups using taper, and if I were to backup all files (except for /proc and /var/log), what are the steps I need to take to recover my original configuration? eg. What other files should I skip for the backup other than /proc and /var/log? Do I need to change to single user mode? What things do I need to do before I can start the restore? Any pitfalls I should look out for? Any tips/advice will be appreciated. wildgrass _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
