William Enestvedt writes:
> Given that NBU 3.4 doesn't do bare metal recovery, and instead requires that
> you manually re-install your OS, what directories do most people put in
Or use the Bare Metal Restore option (4.5), or restore to an alternate
disk.
> their exclude lists?
> I've thought of the following already for my Solaris 2.6 systems:
> /proc
> /tmp
> /cdrom
proc and cdrom are already handled by NBU. /tmp maybe, since it's
generally volatile, but I still back it up.
> /home (we put home directories elsewhere), /net/vol, and /xfn. Do
> other people have favorites? How about /dev, /devices, /kernel, and /vol? I
> just don't want to bother backing up stuff that I wouldn't want to restore!
> Thanks for any suggestions.
Read the O'Reilly Unix Backup and Recovery book. One thing I really
like about that book is the emphasis on backing up everything
(almost).
Sure, you COULD exclude X and save a little tape and time. Then
comes the day that you have to rebuild. A few days later you find
that something isn't working just right. Then you remember that one
time a couple months ago you had to change something - what was it? -
in one of those files. I can go back to tape, can you?
> -wde
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> Will Enestvedt
> UNIX System Administrator
> Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI
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