It's maintenance time for my fileserver, I need to install another hard drive (it's time for RAID-0), and update the Operating System. I'm thinking that the best way to do this will just be with a format (it'll get rid of a lot of the crap which has accumulated over the last couple of years, I can setup the RAID array during the installation, and I can get rid of the packages I installed the first time round and don't actually need).
I need to backup the home directories, the web root, and the MySQL databases (unless anyone can think of anything I've missed?), and was planning on just creating archives of all the necassary folders with a
tar -cvf filename.tar directory/file
(not compressed as a 450Mhz PIII would take a while over it), and then copying the resulting file over the network to my desktop, then after the reinstall, copying back and extracting?
Is this the best way of going about this task, or can anyone suggest superior alternatives?
Best way to backup my Fileserver
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ah.....the path to happiness is revision of dreams and not fulfillment... -SWPIGWANG
Sufficient Googling is indistinguishable from knowledge -somebody
Anything worth the cost of a missile, which can be located on the battlefield, will be shot at with missiles. If the US military is involved, then things, which are not worth the cost if a missile will also be shot at with missiles. -Sea Skimmer
George Bush makes freedom sound like a giant robot that breaks down a lot. -Darth Raptor