Hello,,

I want to back up all my .conf files on a redhat 6.1 machine before making an upgrade attempt. Can i run some sort of gzip command that will find all of them from my / folder down ???

Regards

Andrew

If you are looking for all of your .conf files you could do something like this (I am sure there is a better way, just an idea):

I am not even sure if that will work, but it's probably what I would try.

Good Luck

No doesn't work from this level. Thats what i tried but you get the following


[root@echelon confstuff]# cd /
[root@echelon /]# cp *.conf /etc/backup_files/confstuff/
cp: cannot stat `*.conf': No such file or directory
[root@echelon /]# cp /*.conf /etc/backup_files/confstuff/
cp: cannot stat `/*.conf': No such file or directory
[root@echelon /]# cp / *.conf /etc/backup_files/confstuff/
cp: omitting directory `/'
cp: cannot stat `*.conf': No such file or directory

Hah funny though that you chose the exact wording for the backup

Thanx 4 the suggestion though

Cheers

Jester

try this:

find / -name "*.conf" -exec cp {} /dir/where/you/keep/the/config/files/temporarily

then zip that directory

You could also try

cp ls *|grep .conf /where/you/want/the/files

although I don't know how well that will work

You might need the -R option to get it to work.

cd /
cp -R *.conf /etc/backup_files/confstuff/

well that's cool, but you need to know where they came from so do this

locate *.conf > /save/folder/configfilemap

this does not seem like the right way to do backups though

should you use tar and have it save the directory structure for you


you probably want to keep the owner and permission info intact


not to mention the duplicate filenames

Try this:

find / -name "*.conf" -exec tar -cvf yourTarFileName {} \;

then zip yourTarFileName

Frank