On Tuesday 13 May 2003 07:34, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
Some directories are created or not necessary for a full backup, e.g., /mnt or /proc or /tmp
Which other directories can I omit for a full backup?
The utility "dump" will do all of this for you on a ext3 filesystem. man dump for details. Usually i only do /home and /etc for a full backup. Sometimes /usr and /var but that is system dependent on usage ---- ie.....desktop or server. A well constructed set of utilities that comes with your system; that noone seems to know about is backup_archive.pl and backup_search.pl They are located in the /usr/lib/YaST2/bin directory. backup_search description: # Description: # This script searches modified files in system (comparing # to the RPM database) a and files which do not belong do any # package. Output is list of files and optional more # information about progress of search. backup_archive description: # Description: # This script creates backup archive as specified with command # line parameters. This is an awesome set of scripts. I use it in a weekly cron job. Check it out! -- Thomas Jones Linux-Howtos Administrator