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[Discuss] Backing up the entire software installation



I have a set of things I back up on a nightly basis for each system,
which makes disaster recovery fairly straightforward.

For CentOS and Fedora systems:

1. I back up all of /home, /export, /srv, /etc, /opt, and /usr/local.
2. If the system is a DNS server, I back up /var/named.
3. If the system is a DHCP server, I back up /etc/dhcp.
4. If the system runs apache, I back up /etc/httpd.  For a legacy
system where web sites are under /var/www instead of /srv/www, I also
back up /var/www.
5. If the system is running Postgresql, I back up the data to a file:
    pg_dumpall > PSQL-$(uname -n)-$(date +%F).txt
6. If the system is running MySQL (or MariaDB), I back up the data to a file:
    mysqldump --all-databases > MYSQL-$(uname -n)-$(date +%F).txt
7. I save a list of installed rpm packages:    rpm -qa > RPMs-$(uname
-n)-$(date +%F).txt


On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 8:53 PM Nancy Allison <nancythewriter7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, all.
>
> I have Fedora 28 and lots of programs installed. I use a backup for my
> files, but I dread the day I have to start with a new computer and
> reinstall all my programs.
>
> Is it possible to create a copy of everything, my Fedora 28 operating
> system, all the programs, all the nifty Firefox plug-ins, all my Favorites
> -- everything? So if this hard drive died and I needed to get a new laptop,
> I could copy over the entire contents of this computer without having to
> recreate it?
>
> If so, how would I do that?
>
> If I can't do that, how can I at least generate some kind of list of
> everything I have installed so I don't have to rack my brains trying to
> remember everything I had on this box?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Nancy
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