24 May
2006
24 May
'06
13:12
Donald D Henson wrote:
I am currently running SuSE 10.0 and am preparing to go to 10.1. After following some of the discussions on this list, I have decided to do a fresh install. I have, or will have, backups for /home, /public, /srv, and /etc. I see no problems with restoring all those directories except for /etc. There's a lot of "stuff" in /etc and I'm not sure that restoring it from a backup after a fresh install is a good idea. Any advice from the experts on the list?
I never do a full restore of /etc - only select portions. And I always do it by hand, one by one. The typical stuff I restore is e.g. smartd.conf, samba stuff, /etc/exports, /etc/ntp.conf. /Per Jessen, Zürich