list Important files to backup
Hi all,
I am going to retire a RHEL5 server. What are the important configuration files (in general) to backup. Thanks in advance! |
It depends on which service the server was running.
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Not to sound flip about it but disk space is cheap. If I were you I'd back it all up. Once the new server install is up and running fore some time... then you can get rid of the backup.
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I have to agree with both of the above.
Without a detailed(!) knowledge of the system in qn, there's no way to tell... |
The very basic configuration is in common *.config files that are in /etc and in rc/init scripts and in /etc/sysconfig/ but I'd backup everything to be sure I didn't forget a thing :)
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System files:
Most of the configuration files are inside /etc area. /etc area: *.conf, *.ini, auto.master, auto.misc, export, fstab, group, passwd, shadow {Some important .conf files are dhcpd.conf, namd.conf, resolv.conf, nsswitch.conf, modules.conf etc.} One important .ini file is php.ini. /etc/httpd/conf/ area: httpd.conf {Only for web servers} /etc/samba/ area: smb.conf, smbpasswd {Only for Samba servers} /etc/ssh area: sshd_config {Only for restricted servers like NIS, DNS, DHCP, mailhost} /etc/sysconfig: desktop, network, yppasswd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts: ifcfg-eth0 Sytem Data: Most of the data is inside /var area /var/named {DNS server data files} /var/lib/mysql {MySQL database files} /var/yp {NIS data} Home Directories: Any native directory (Not NFS mounted area) /root area Data area: Any area which is being used for keeping data Currently Started/Killed Daemons list à ls /etc/rc5.d > daemon5list {If machine is running at level 5, similarly for level 3 etc} The important directories are /etc, /home, /var, and /srv. You may want to add /root, and remove unneeded bits from /var. rsync is good if you want the files to be directly accessible, tar is fine if you don't. |
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