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[Discuss] Backing up the entire software installation
- Subject: [Discuss] Backing up the entire software installation
- From: abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 00:13:25 -0400
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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 > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email: abreauj at gmail.com / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6
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