Re: Backup question

[Joost Kooij <jkooij@best.ms.philips.com>]

Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> 
> the result of dpkg --get-selections and /var/spool/mail (especially if
> these are frequent backups and you don't place mail in the user's home
> directory).

Dselect keeps some configuration data deep down in then /var/lib/dpkg
tree.

And if you run bind/dns then /var/named contains the configuration and
lookup files.

There are probably more interesting directories in /var (like game
highscores ;-) )


Joost
 
> On Fri, 5 Sep 1997, Shaleh wrote:
> 
> > I am doing a sytem backup, other than /etc, /usr/local stuff, and /home
> > or /root what else do I need to save??
> >


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