backup systems. (Use Amanda!!)

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

"Young, Charles" <Charles.Young at Level3.com> writes:

> Um,
> 
> This seems to assume shared objects are not replaced as part of a
> security update or patch process, does it not?  I think they do
> occasionally replace these "permanent objects", no?

All security updates are done via RPM.  If I have to re-install, I'm
going to reinstall and pull in the most recent updates.  So even
considering security updates, I don't want/need to backup files that
were installed by RPM and "not changed".

All I want to backup are my configuration and data files (in
particular those that DON'T come from RPM, but also those that do but
have been changed).

-derek

> --Chuck

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