HELP!? Any files I should NOT restore?

[Furnish, Trever G]

Well, since no one responded I suppose I'll answer my own question --
maybe it'll help someone searching the archives in the future.

Keep in mind this restore has only been up for a weekend, so it's still
quite possible I'll find unexpected problems later.

I skipped restoring the following files and directories:
/proc
/boot
/etc/grub.conf
/etc/fstab
/etc/mtab
/etc/lvmtab
/etc/lvmconf
/etc/lvmtab.d
/dev
/etc/hosts
/var/log

The reason I skipped /etc/hosts is that I wanted to be sure changes to
/etc/hosts while the restore was running didn't interfere with the
restore, as the network tape drive is normally accessed using a
dedicated backup subnet that wasn't available during the restore.  I
instead restored this file elsewhere in a second pass just to have it to
refer to.

I didn't restore /etc/fstab because my filesystems changed during the
rebuild.   Again, restored this file elsewhere in a second pass just to
have it to refer to later, especially since I had several complex
network mounts in the original file.

Could've restored /var/log, but 1) I didn't want to overwrite current
logs with old logs and 2) I didn't really need the old logs.  If needed
I'll restore them elsewhere later.

There was no need to skip restoring the backup client software in this
case -- Data Protector clients (not cell managers) require no special
consideration of their client software during a restore.

Hope that helps someone in the future.

--
Trever Furnish, tgfurnish at herffjones.com


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Furnish, Trever G
> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 6:54 PM
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> Subject: HELP!? Any files I should NOT restore?
> 
> Are there any files I should NOT restore when performing a 
> "full system"
> restore of Redhat Enterprise 3 (Update 6)?
> 
> For example, under HPUX after doing a fresh system install, 
> I'd exclude the following "seven deadly files" when restoring 
> over top of the running OS:
> /etc/lvmtab
> /etc/fstab
> /etc/mnttab
> /etc/lvmconf/
> /dev/
> /etc/ioconfig/
> /stand/ioconfig/
> 
> The obvious equivalents under RHEL for lvmtab and lvmconf are 
> /etc/lvmtab, /etc/lvmconf, and /etc/lvmtab.d.
> 
> The obvious equivalents for /etc/fstab and /etc/mnttab are 
> /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab.
> 
> The obvious equivalent for /dev is /dev.
> 
> Is there an equivalent for /etc/ioconfig and /stand/ioconfig? 
>  Are there other files I should NOT restore?  Anything under 
> /boot, perhaps?
> 
> --
> Trever
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