20 May
2008
20 May
'08
11:02 a.m.
On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 10:45 +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
Maybe consumer distros like Ubuntu, when faced with a big hard disk to install on, should default to creating a large backup partition onto which /home is backed up regularly in the background (by root, so the backups can't be deleted by a user level program). Sure, allow it to be turned off, but as a default that would be very good in my view, and a better use of background CPU than search indexing or anti-virus scanning.
A number of distros now provide an LVM option at install, some even default to it IIRC. One thing that might be a good solution would be regular snapshots of logical volumes?
Just my 2p.
Jim