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On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 01:00:39PM +0300, Heikki Pesonen wrote:
I have 3 times installed Fedora Core (3, 4 and 5) to my computer. Never
has it gone in the way I hoped. Probably I have difficulties with the fine
LVM-system. I have read a lot of it and now I suppose I understand it. Last
time Fedora Core took all of my Linux-hard disk (160 Gb). Now I wanted to
start the fourth attempt, to give Fedora only let's say 40 Gb. Because I am
relatively satisfied to my recent installation, I wanted to make a complete
backup of my recent installation to DVD's and then after reinstalling
Fedora restore it.
I know the command tar and there is also in Fedora installation File Roller
2.14.0, an archieve manager. I looked at Bill McCartys book "Learning Red
Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora" (2005), but did not find advice about
reasonable backup strategy in my case. Could someone kindly tell me what
folders I should include in the tar-file and how to restore them in a
relatively simple way.
Make a list of currently installed packages:
rpm -qa | sort > ~/packages.txt
If you use any of the SQL Databases, create a suitable backup for it.
Back up /home, /etc and /var.
Reinstall. Set up your users again. /etc/passwd will help you with
this. Add packages listed in packages.txt that you didn't install
during the installation.
Restore /home. You may have to change the ownership on some of the
users, depending on how you set them up this time vs. last. "man
chown"
Restore /etc and /var selectively. I usually unpack them to a separate
location and copy files in as needed, or edit the working file vs the
backed up one. If you use emacs, look at ediff mode. It takes a while,
but there is no simple way to do it.
Write down what you do as you do it so that next time you have a
checklist; it will go faster.
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