On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Michael Chaney <[email protected]> wrote: > Backups were the other big reason that we split stuff up functionally as I > showed above. Basically, /home (or /usr/home) was the only thing that had > to be backed up regularly.
So, we haven't mentioned what used to be fairly common practice- keeping /home on a separate partition so that you can nuke the OS (e.g. slackware --> debian) without disturbing user data. I guess the argument could be made that this looks like a sloppy shortcut compared to backing it up and then restoring it, but can be a *lot* faster/easier. (Standard disclaimers apply. You need to be backed up anyway. Depends on size of data and speed of your backup/restore routine. Modulo some fiddling with uids. etc. ) Is that lame? Better solutions? -J'n -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
