Christoph Anton Mitterer said on Mon, May 16, 2011 at 02:20:35PM +0000: > > 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. > I still would keep this temporary/volatile data in /var ... even though > this makes backups more "complex". > Cause typically all this spooling stuff should be there only for a short > period of time, until it's further processed (e.g. handed over to the > printer or to a pop3/imap server).
Well, in reality, news, mail or crontab files are there for long :-( Of course, this is different for postfix, at or lpd under /var/spool. I know sysadmins who keep the mailboxes of their users under /var/spool/mail This is then not volatile, at least for the people whose mailbox is there ;-) Throughout the years, tools are using /var/spool for different things. I don't know whether we can influence their choices there. 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
