Yes it's /var/backups. The symlink is specific to this machine though 
other hosts in the company had been set up with the backups actually 
under /var/backups. Those may have been ubuntu, debian or CentOS (I'm 
not in charge of those). Should we avoid /var/backups?

Colin Watson wrote:
> We were actually relatively careful to touch only directories the
> packaging system knew about, I thought. Here's the relevant code. I
> can't see where this could recurse into /var/volumes; could you look
> over the following and see if any of the mentioned directories might
> contain symlinks into /var/volumes? I suspect that this is specific to
> your system somehow but I don't yet see how. Thanks in advance.
>
>   NINER_NINER_PATHS="                          \
>        /boot                                   \
>        /etc                                    \
>        /usr/lib/locale                         \
>        /var/backups                            \
>        /var/cache/apt                          \
>        /var/cache/debconf                      \
>        /var/cache/fontconfig                   \
>        /var/cache/fonts                        \
>        /var/cache/ldconfig                     \
>        /var/cache/anthy                        \
>        /var/lib/apt                            \
>        /var/lib/dpkg                           \
>        /var/lib/belocs                         \
>        /var/lib/gconf                          \
>        /var/lib/defoma                         \
>        /var/lib/locales                        \
>        /var/log/installer                      "
>
>   NINER_NINER_SYMLINKS="                       \
>        /initrd.img                             \
>        /vmlinuz                                \
>        /cdrom                                  \
>        /media/cdrom                            \
>        /etc/alternatives                       \
>        /usr/share/fonts                        \
>        /var/lib/anthy                          \
>        /var/lib/defoma                         "
>
>   find -L $NINER_NINER_PATHS -gid 999 -print0 |
>        xargs -0rt chgrp 0
>   find $NINER_NINER_SYMLINKS -gid 999 -print0 |
>        xargs -0rt chgrp -h 0
>   find /media -maxdepth 1 -name "cdrom[0-9]*" -gid 999 -print0 |
>        xargs -0rt chgrp 0
>
>   find /lib/modules -maxdepth 2 -name "modules.*" -gid 999 -print0 |
>        xargs -0rt chgrp 0
>
>
> ** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Incomplete
>
> ** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu)
>      Assignee: (unassigned) => Colin Watson (cjwatson)
>
>

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base-files postinstall recurses into /var
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319477
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