On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:22:13PM -0500, Michael Town wrote: > Hey guys, > I'm planning on switching my server from Mandrake 7.1 to a Debian potato > box. At the moment, my server is acting as: Email server, Web server, > File server, Domain controller, FTP server (non-annonymous), Primary DNS, > and firewall (well, NAT anyway). > > My question is: which files will I need to back up to make the switch as > seamless as possible? My /Home directory is a separate partition, so I'm > safe there (I think). What I know for sure is my /root user directory, > along with my apache and samba config files. Also my passwd, shadow and > groups files. I'm also guessing the /etc/sysconfig directory (at least > the network files) > > I know I'm missing some, I just can't for the life of me remember what > they are. Why not just targz all the /etc and after the installation untargz it into /etc/old and then do a copy-on-demand (as you configure things look into the old config) ...? florin -- "you have moved your mouse, please reboot to make this change take effect" 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4