Making a List of Files and File Systems to Back Up

Use the following guidelines to make the list of file systems to save:

• As a general rule, do not transfer file systems containing "system" files (for example, the /usr or / file systems) in their entirety.

• Do not save temporary file systems, such as /tmp.

• Do extract and transfer the data files that have changed locally or those on which the server depends for administrative data, such as some /etc files (for example, /etc/hosts), exported file systems (use the exportfs command to list them), and /tftpboot directory, which you should save as a safety precaution.

• Do completely preserve file systems containing only locally generated data, such as spool and user home directories.

• Save file systems that contain information about clients if you are migrating a server for SunOS release 4.x clients. Typically, /export would be such a file.