On Tuesday 02 November 2004 9:45 am, David Sexton wrote: Hi I am running suse 9.1 and wish to come up with some type of backup system. How ever I don't know what I should backup. I was thinking that /home and /etc should be backed up. Can any one give me some suggestions on what to backup?
here are 3 tiny scripts ~ you could run them by 'cron' :- ............................. #!/bin/sh # backup /etc /root /boot /usr/local # exec tar czvf /bup/etc`date +%y%m%d`.tar.gz /etc /root /boot /usr/local ........................................... #!/bin/sh # backup /home # exec tar czvf /bup/home`date +%y%m%d`.tar.gz /home ...................................... #!/bin/sh # backup /var # exec tar czvf /bup/var`date +%y%m%d`.tar.gz /var/named /var/cron/tabs /var/spool/mail /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/greek ....................... best rgds _________