Re: lenny backups and recovery

2010-01-26 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:48:32 -0700 Paul E Condon wrote: ... > So, IMHO, what needs to be backed up is: > /boot /etc /home /root /var/spool/cron/crontabs Other parts of /var you might want to back up: /var/log /var/mail Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom agg

Re: lenny backups and recovery

2010-01-21 Thread Robert Brockway
On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Paul E Condon wrote: "Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO". One of the first things I noticed about it is that it assumes that you already -have- a daily backup system in place, and then it makes no attempt to integrate what it is presenting with that system, or even s

Re: lenny backups and recovery

2010-01-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100121_095411, Robert Brockway wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Paul E Condon wrote: > > >Contrary to tldp advice, I think it is unnecessary to make backups > >of /bin or /sbin. These files are readily available from you favorite > > I'm very much a fan of backing up the entire system (with lim

Re: lenny backups and recovery

2010-01-21 Thread Robert Brockway
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Paul E Condon wrote: Contrary to tldp advice, I think it is unnecessary to make backups of /bin or /sbin. These files are readily available from you favorite I'm very much a fan of backing up the entire system (with limited exceptions, such as an area set aside for the st

Re: lenny backups and recovery

2010-01-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100118_132425, Adam Hardy wrote: > Paul E Condon on 15/01/10 22:48, wrote: > >On 20100114_133757, Adam Hardy wrote: > >>Just recovered from a kernel-not-loading situation, without any data > >>loss and happily wondering what I should do now to make sure I don't > >>get the same adrenalin shot

Re: lenny backups and recovery

2010-01-18 Thread Adam Hardy
Paul E Condon on 15/01/10 22:48, wrote: On 20100114_133757, Adam Hardy wrote: Just recovered from a kernel-not-loading situation, without any data loss and happily wondering what I should do now to make sure I don't get the same adrenalin shot next time it happens. [snipped] I am looking at htt

Re: lenny backups and recovery

2010-01-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100114_133757, Adam Hardy wrote: > Just recovered from a kernel-not-loading situation, without any data > loss and happily wondering what I should do now to make sure I don't > get the same adrenalin shot next time it happens. > > I do have a removable usb hard drive for backups, onto which I

Re: lenny backups and recovery

2010-01-14 Thread Robert Brockway
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Adam Hardy wrote: Just recovered from a kernel-not-loading situation, without any data loss and happily wondering what I should do now to make sure I don't get the same adrenalin shot next time it happens. Hi Adam. Below are the notes from my talk on backups. My opinions

lenny backups and recovery

2010-01-14 Thread Adam Hardy
Just recovered from a kernel-not-loading situation, without any data loss and happily wondering what I should do now to make sure I don't get the same adrenalin shot next time it happens. I do have a removable usb hard drive for backups, onto which I copy stuff using cp -rp * and I'm wonderi