Christoph Anton Mitterer said on Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:09:14AM +0000: > /var: > - dynamically generated > - purely internally used data (i.e. state data) but not things which are > indirectly used and are actual/precious data (e.g. database server files) > - things that can easily be lost (and regenerated)
Exactly. And typically I'd like to avoid backuping /var, except maybe /var/spool. Currently what I *have* to backup is crontab files (/var/spool/cron) , /var/spool/mail, /var/spool/news, /var/lib/mysql, and /var/www where most of the rest is useless from a recovery perspective. Moving useful data from /var/spool to /srv/spool or something similar would help as we could then just backup the full /srv and avoid /var content at all. > /srv > more or less the opposite of /var > - actual precious data For me the real aspect is data separation, filesystem coherency (possibility to have one broken such as /var due to logs filling it, random temp data written to it, ...) where the other one is more under control (backup being part of it). Just my 2 centieuros Bruno. -- Open Source & Linux Profession Lead EMEA / http://opensource.hp.com HP/Intel/Red Hat Open Source Solutions Initiative / http://www.hpintelco.net http://www.HyPer-Linux.org http://mondorescue.org http://project-builder.org La musique ancienne? http://www.musique-ancienne.org http://www.medieval.org _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
