On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 11:58:54AM +0000, Paul wrote:
On Saturday 29 December 2007 10:39, Chris G wrote:
That won't matter as you are already backing /var up aren't you?
Yes, but that *shouldn't* be necessary. The whole point of /var according to the standards is that there is *nothing* there that needs backing up
Disagree - /var/mail, /var/lib, and possibly /var/cache should be backed up as much of the meta data related to installed packages reside there. Backing up /var/log is advisable should you ever need to do any forensics after a system has been hacked.
Ah but /var/mail in particular is suggested may be a link to somewhere in the /home hierarchy isn't it?
[current spec can be found at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html ]
As for web files (html, tarballs, general "stuff"), much of it goes in /var/www, some in /home/<usr>/stuff, and a great gob of files in /debian - Anything outside of /var/www gets symlinks.. Bottom line, your system, your choice ;-)
Exactly, but I'm trying to come up with a strategy that isn't just a confused mess.