How to backup the users

[Wojciech Puchar]

> Hello,
>
> I am running a small FreeBSD server and I have a a couple of users
> ssh'ing to it. I want to wipe the server out and reinstall FreeBSD on
> it, but I want to preserve the users' credentials. Can you please
> advise me how to back them up?

/home/*
/etc/master.passwd
/var/cron/tabs/*
/var/mail/*

possibly other files.


but format+reinstall is when you have windows, with unix there is no need 
to.