[mythtv-users] Files to Backup

[myth joe]

The easiest thing would probably to put /boot and the rest of system
files on partitions separate from the content (recordings, videos,
etc).  Then you could just back up all of the partitions except the
content.  Search the archives for Mondo Rescue.

That said, I basically do what you do:  dump the database and config
files (including the .htaccess stuff for mythweb, the file containing
my audio settings, fstab, rc.local, hosts, and so on).  I've done a
couple of re-installs lately this way.  It's a bit painful, but I
didn't lose any content, either.

JB

On 4/16/05, Mathew Mrosko <mythtv at matmrosko.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am making a simple script to backup my mythbox's config data every day.  I
> don't have the hard drive space to backup all the actual recordings and
> movies, so I'm just backing up important things like the database, logs, etc.
> I was just wondering if anybody has a list of good files to backup regularly
> so that a new setup won't take too long in the event of a hard drive failure
> or something.  So far, I am grabbing all the system logs, all my little
> scripts, my lircrc, fstab, all the files in the /etc/ directory ending in
> "conf" (for ease, i'm just grabbing them all).  Is there anything I'm
> missing?
> 
> Also, does anybody know how to grab partition info and LVM info?  I know I
> should be using DD to grab the first 512? bytes of the drive to grab partion
> info, but does anybody have something similar already made?  Anybody know how
> to save all this data?
> 
> Thanks,
> --
> Mathew Mrosko
> 
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