HELP!? Any files I should NOT restore?

nilesh vaghela nileshj.vaghela at gmail.com
Mon Jun 26 16:02:11 UTC 2006


I think
/tmp

too.

On 6/26/06, Furnish, Trever G <TGFurnish at herffjones.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
> i/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-----
> > From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [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?
> >
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> > Trever
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