Hi all and a Happy New Year !

I want to backup every config file (named.conf, smb.conf, httpd.conf etc ) but I don't know what is the best way to organize them.
Where to backup them? In which format? etc


How do you achieve it?


Thanks,
ddaas

well there are a dozen different ways to bacup anything... depends what you want to do really. the most effective way is normally to use rsync to maintain an exact clone of /etc. see the rsync howto to setup up a connection with a remote server.

at a more simple level, you can easy tar up /etc and place it wherever you see fit (possbily on a samba / nfs share on a remote machine)
this should create a dated file in /mnt/backup of /etc/

i wouldn't restrict yourself to *.conf files btw... there's loads of config files that don't fit into that. /etc/fstab etc...