On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 03:38:41PM +0200, Nick Selby wrote:
I have made a tarball of my entire /etc/ directory, as well as my entire /home/nick directory (the only home directory I really care about) for good measure and stored both on another machine. My questions are:
1. Assuming the world ends and the new install melts my hard drive, if I make a brand new install and then replace the newly installed /etc/ directory with my backup, AND I copy into the newly installed /home/nick directory, will that actually have all my stuff working as it is now?
If you install the same version of SuSE with the same software, you should be covered on config. However, it won't restore your web content (defaults to /usr/local/httpd/htdocs), or your MySQL databases or other data you have stashed in various places.
2. Is /etc/ the only place where important config files are? I have a fairly straightforward setup, though I have set up apache, PHPMyAdmin and MySql I haven't really done anything to those other than set up hosts for a coupole of local domains that I use for web development. Is /etc/ really enough?
Except for custom packages you may have installed, I am hard pressed to come up with packages that don't have their config files stored somewhere in the /etc tree. There may be some, but I can't think of any offhand. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ I can C for miles and miles Got spam? Get SPASTIC http://spastic.sourceforge.net