These are the scripts I use to make backups and to restore them afterwards using afio for Linux. They're pretty simple. I put them in /etc/backup on my backup filesystem (with a symlink from /etc/backup on the root FS), and do /etc/backup/backup as root to back the system up. The x.* files are regular expression which cause matching names to be excluded from backups. A trailing slash is used on some to ensure that the directory is saved in the backup but its contents aren't. To restore, I boot of a root/boot/lilo floppy, remake any necessary filesystems, mount the normal root FS on /mnt/root, restore /, then reboot with the normal root filesystem and restore the rest. You could restore everything in one go, although you have to be careful to create any directories required in /mnt/root to mount other filesystems on. (My /home/ftp/pub is on a separate filesystem; if you just have one big FS like I used to then everything can be restored in one fell swoop.) I hereby place this material in the public domain. David P Gymer, 1 February, 1994. -- Dave dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk