[ale] important config. files

[Jim Kinney]

and if you had selinux running (I don't recall if fc7 was ground-zero
for that or not) you MUST use star and not tar to capture the selinux
acl metadata. otherwise on the new build a copy will fail.

Best scenario: use a new drive and do a new install. After install,
mount old drive and pull data over.

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Matt Rideout<mrideout at windserve.com> wrote:
> At a minimum, I would backup:
>
> /home
> /root
> /etc (particularly passwd, shadow, group, hosts, fstab and rc.local)
> /opt
> /usr/local
>
> Also take a look at what's in /var, and if you can, just tarball the whole
> thing. Some of the directories that commonly need to be backed up there are:
>
> /var/spool/cron
> /var/lib/mysql
> /var/www
>
>
> Sean wrote, On 06/25/2009 11:41 AM:
>
> Okay; the time has come.
> I am, finally, going to update this FC-7 box to FC-11.
> ~/home is backed up to an external hard drive.
>
> Are there any config files that I really should save before
> I hose everything but the /home partition?
>
> Sean,
> who would rather be safe now than sorry later. :0
>
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