Jay Mistry wrote:

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On my home network, I daily backup

/etc and /usr/local/etc completely. /var/{backups,named,pgk-get,sadm,spool,yp} /var/lib/{apt,mailman,mysql,pgsql,ldap,named,samba,rpm,zypp,nagios} /root /boot/grub

I don't use any database/server apps (also not familiar with those); as mentioned this is just a stand-alone home PC for general (documents, Internet, etc + to learn Linux) use; so minus those, would probably backup the other dirs. Basically, was not sure of the main directories (folders) to be backed up on a Linux system. Also, /home (all) and /etc (all).

Please note that my list were only concerned with *system* files, as to the original question. Data and user files are a completely different matter. /home should surely always be part of a backup.

How does one backup those (esp. 'partition infos' ) ?

I have experienced disks loosing their partition table, that's why I do it. Usually it suffices to just save the output of "fdisk -l /dev/sda" or whatever disk you have. That doesn't work in all cases, that's spelled out in the script that I had appended.

(I believe the list of installed RPM's can be backed up as an .xml file (from YaST --. Software Management) ?

Just call "rpm -a" and save the output. I don't have enough spare time to help you set up such a backup, sorry. Cheers, Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org