[K12OSN] Help me....backup reassurance needed

[Terrell Prude', Jr.]

Caleb Wagnon wrote:

>Can someone tell me the most likely things I need to backup on my ltsp server
>for migration? I know....but still......
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The way I do it is to back up the entire /etc, /opt/ltsp/i386 directory 
(or /opt/ltsp/ppc, if you're running PMac clients), and /home 
directories.  That's always worked pretty well for me...when upgrading 
from one version of a certain distro to a newer version of the same 
distro, e. g. Red Hat 7.3 to, say, Red Hat 9, or the K12LTSP versions 
thereof.

On the other hand, if you're crossing distros (e. g. going from Red Hat 
to SuSE or Slackware), you've got to pick your /etc files carefully.  
The "for sure" ones I pick in /etc are /etc/ltsp.conf, /etc/ssh/, and 
/etc/dhcpd.conf.  Then I just go through /etc and see if there's 
anything that'd be a good idea and would cross over easily (/etc/skel, 
for example).

--TP