Backup

How?

List of backup software.

BackupPC

See BackupPC.

Bup

See Bup.

Burp

See Burp.

Other

• brackup
• rdiff-backup

What?

A backup checklist.

On Linux

• /home directory
• /etc directory
• /usr/local directory
• /root directory

In addition:

• Get a copy of crontab (although they are in /var. For each user:

crontab -l

• Copy all mysql database (although they are in /var and /etc.

sudo su -
mysqldump -u root -p --all-databases > mysql-$hostname.dump