[ALUG] Where to put HTML etc.?

[Chris G]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 03:39:31PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 15:13 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > The whole point of /var
> > according to the standards is that there is *nothing* there that needs
> > backing up.
> 
> Ok in the interests of me learning something new. Please point me to the
> standard that says that you don't need to back up /var.
> 
Reading http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEVARHIERARCHY
harder suggests to me that FHS is almost trying to avoid saying
anything about backups.

However the first line of the /var section there says:-

    /var contains variable data files. This includes spool directories and
    files, administrative and logging data, and transient and temporary
    files.

Now in my books "transient and temporary files" are definitely not
candidates for backup.  "administrative and logging data", it depends,
you might want to back them up on a commercial system for auditing
reasons but on a personal system it's debateable.  "spool directories
and files", more likely you want to back them up I suppose.

However *none* of it is what I would call "important data" like the
contents of databases, web pages, things like that.  The database
files and web pages should be in /srv.

-- 
Chris Green