What to back up for new HD

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Hello,

I have a rh7.3 machine that I would like to upgrade the hard drive on. I basicly only run apache and dns for hosting my three sites and two friends. I don't have a cd burner or tape drive to this machine and I'm not a guru with linux at all. So I'm guessing the easiest way for me to back up my data files is to tar the following directories that I have put in this script and ftp to my lan pc to store until new drive is re-loaded.


#!/bin/bash
# This file should be saved as /root/backup,
# and be chmod 744 /root/backup

# the /opt directory is a little like /usr/local --
# it catches 'stuff' for the local machine rather than network

cd /opt/backup

echo 'currently in /opt/backup'
echo 'now creating tar files.'

tar zvcf etc.tgz /etc
tar zvcf named.tgz /var/named
tar zvcf home.tgz /home

echo 'List of the files created'
echo 'and dates they were made.'

ls -ltr /opt/backup

# end


1)Are there any directories I can be missing and is there a proper (untar) restore sequence?

2)After I restore the new drive I may want to run this script or a similiar one as cron job. Maybe every 48 hours or so. On rh what directory do I place the script to run by cron?

Thanks much
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[Morsing]

1) That looks ok to me. Just untar the files you need.

2) Not really. Edit crontab with 'crontab -e' or 'vi /etc/crontab'

Cheers Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support