On Friday 16 February 2007 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I like to have /home on a separate partition to the root filesystem, so > that if I want to upgrade the distro then I can pretty much replace the > whole root filesystem. (I usually make a new / and install to that, > and change over when all is looking good.) > > But I just realised that unless you make a separate partition for > /usr/local (or equivalent, like making it a symlink to /home/local), > then if you clobbered the root filesystem you'd also lose all your local > files, which are more on a par with /home. > > Just a thought.
Why not a regular (daily cron) of /etc /usr/local /var/lib/named(for me) to /home Then your regular backup (or not) of /home only. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
