[ale] important config. files

[Asher Vilensky]

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-- Asher


On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Asher Vilensky <ashervilensky at gmail.com>wrote:

> The last company I worked for (and who laid me off 3 months ago....I can't
> believe I'm giving them a free advertisement), has a product that takes an
> image of the entire disk (or disks, or SAN LUN).  That includes EVERYTHING -
> ALL files, applications, etc.  You can then restore that image onto similar
> or dissimilar hardware (or to a VM), change specifics (host name, IP's,
> etc.), boot, and go.  Very very cool product.
> The reason I mention that is that you may want to search a free util that
> does that or part of that.
>
> -- Asher
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> and do database dumps and scavenge /root, /usr/local, and /opt if you
>> have used them.
>>
>> Be prepared to have a fight getting gui to work with ~/.gnome files
>> being that far behind.
>>
>> Big mess is evolution mail files have changed formats a few times.
>> First run may take a while.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Richard Bronosky<Richard at bronosky.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Sean<drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:
>> >> Are there any config files that I really should save before
>> >> I hose everything but the /home partition?
>> >
>> > I always tar up /etc before making such moves.
>> >
>> >
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