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

[Paul Davison]

Terrell Prude', Jr. wrote:

> Caleb Wagnon wrote:
> 
>> Can someone tell me the most likely things I need to backup on my ltsp 
>> server
<snip>
> 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 from one version of a certain distro to a newer version of the same 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.
<snip>

I would add a couple of additional items to that list.  /var/www/ if it 
is a webserver, /var/spool/mail  if it is a mailserver, and I would take 
a look in /var/ for any other critical items like mysql databases etc. 
I would also backup /root/ if there are any critical items there.

cheers

Paul Davison