I am about to buld a new server for the office. My present server has data all over the show.
home directories for stuff people have basically stuffed in there from their samba [home] share /usr/samba which is the root of all my shared samba directories for office wide stuff like precedents, client docs, accounting database etc. /var/spool/imap/user which is where cyrus stores all its mail stuff. /var/www for apache files and other places too (part of the problem is that /var keeps filling up with mail, so some of it is linked off to space in the /usr partition. The worst thing is backing up and sorting out where everything is. I'd prefer something more consistent. I seek learned comments on the following plan: 1. I am moving to courier imap, so mail will go in a maildir in the user's home dir. 2. create a /home/samba for all samba shares (except user's[home] share which will be in /home/user as usual) 3. gentoo puts apache's root in /home/httpd Then backup of all data and config for the system is a matter of backing up /home and /etc. simple. Is that a plan, or am I missing something? comments welcome. I also intend to use LVM so I can change partition sizes and add new hard drives on the fly (although I guess I'll have to power down to physically add the drive, bummer) -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
