Data Restore After Fresh Install of 10.1
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? Donald D. Henson, Managing Director West El Paso Information Network The "Non-Initiation of Force Principle" Rules
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
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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?
No, one by one and by hand, inspecting the contens, comparing, deciding. You are the administrator, it's your job... - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFEdGc5tTMYHG2NR9URAmXyAKCHPNMk/FWPjkBfyG2YmZbpfUyqfwCfZwxJ 75cZ0WtQqEWR6zaD2xxgJxI= =vFDj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 14:41, 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.
Good choices, but: don't forget /var. E.g. mysql stores it's databases in /var/lib/mysql, named and dhcpd also use dir's in /var/lib. Better backup /var too, just to be on the safe side. ;) But if you're sure there's nothing important there, you don't have to backup /var.
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?
Usually I don't need to. Only on my dhcp/dns server, I copy the necessary dhcp/named files from /etc and /var/lib (and mysql files from /var/lib/mysql) from the previous installation (I always install new, keeping the previous). I think is's best to use YaST to configure things anew. If you really have lots of things in /etc that needs copying or so, you might consider an update instead of a fresh install (of course you did make a backup of important things). There is a small(?) risk that the update does not work, and you end up inspecting copying the files in /etc by yourself. Installing new, and configuring things anew has the advantage that you do not have to worry about compatibility of configuration files. Cheers, Leen
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