Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.
Hmmm, does incremental backups sound good in this situation?
Anyone?
Regards,
Onno
At 07:44 PM 1/18/00 +0000, John Gay wrote:
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>I've got some good suggestions, and apparently raised a few questions as well.
>Let me outline my reasons for asking and what I hope to do:
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>I've got a CD-RW. I plan to use this for back-ups as well as software
>publishing. I've also got a SCSI tape drive, but I'm not quite sure how to use
>it yet. I've got / as a 500M partition. This is perfect for putting onto a
>bootable CD-RW for emergency recovery. Being new, I've already screwed up my
>system to the point where it wouldn't boot. Last time I had to do a complete
>install.
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>I would like to keep the other partitions small enough to put onto just a few
>CD's each. Worst-case scenario, I trash a complete partition, I can recover from
>just a few CD's. This also makes backing up each partition less work. I also
>want to have a few partitions set aside for CD images. I would feel better
>having a number of smaller partitions that I can back-up and recover quickly,
>plus fsck would run faster, that just a few really big partitions and lots of
>sym-links to hide the facts. I've read the multi-disk HOW-TO, as it has some
>good info on partitions sizes and such. I've also read the FHS info as well. I
>know StarOffice wants to install in /opt, and apt-get uses /var quite heavily. I
>expect only three users, and maybe a business account, so mail shouldn't be too
>much. At the moment I'm more concerned with being able to recover the various
>system and user programmes before I make my next mistake as root, rather than
>and user data. This would indicate a good scheme for recovering /usr. Probably
>spitting it up may help, as long as my / partition would have enough to recover
>the rest of the system in case of catastrophic failure.
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>Thanks again for your input. I'll have another read of the FHS documents and a
>good think.
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