Upgrade/Backup question

Alin-Adrian Anton aanton at reversedhell.net
Wed Sep 10 03:16:35 PDT 2003


Michael A. Alestock wrote:

>I'm planning on upgrading to a most recent version of FreeBSD (v4.7 to
>v4.8).  I plan on backing up data before doing so.  Which configuration
>files (or filesystem[s]) should I backup ??  /, /etc, /var, /usr ???  I'm
>excluding "/usr/home" because that's standard anyways.
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Backup everything using the tar utility. Backup /.

Alin.

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