On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 02:51:13PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 02:06:57PM EST, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 13:42 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > The issue here is that you only need to backup your data. Backups > > of /usr and /var and so on mean nothing. > > you don't think backups of /var/log might come in handy?
Presumably, the system is running correctly when /var/log would be backed up. If it later dies (by fire, flood, whatever), the errors produced during dying throes won't be availble on backup. > Now on the other hand if your are looking at a system that has dozens of > patches installed and lots of customized software you definitely do not > want to reinstall and then have to go through the hassle of going > through all that customization in an emergency. In the real world, > that's one excellent reason why having a copy of your executables makes > a lot of sense. > I think that on Debian, anything under /usr and /var (not /usr/local or /var/local) should be considered to belong to apt. I wouldn't install manually anything else there. If you're taking packages, installing them, then altering them, I think you'd be better to repackage your changes and install the resulting debs. Store these debs as backup. Or move the whole thing to /usr/local or /opt (which you would then backup). Then again, I think that mondo/mindi does what you do. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
