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[ale] important config. files

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Matt Rideout wrote:

> At a minimum, I would backup:
> 
> /home
> /root
> /etc (particularly passwd, shadow, group, hosts, fstab and rc.local)
> /opt
> /usr/local
>

If the original system is using LVM(2), I'd snapshot /home, as well.  If the 
original system _isn't_ using LVM(2), set it up to use LVM2 when you reinstall 
so that in the future snapshots can be utilized.

Just my 2?.

 	--- Mike