Re: Smart Debian Backup?
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:25:15PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 04:24:29AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > just backup /etc and /home and /usr/local...
> > ( everything else "should have been installed from cdrom" )
> >
> > and if you wanna backup pending emails etc..etc..
> > more stuff to look in /var/*...
>
> Especially /var/spool, /var/mail, /var/log and /var/lib (and possibly
> /var/www).
Yep. I'd say that backing up /var is just as important as /home.
> Are there debian packages that don't follow the FHS?
Could be wrong, but ISTR that FHS compliance is a requirement for
being included in the stable distribution.
BTW, Hans, your Mail-Followup-To is broken:
Mail-Followup-To: hans, Debian Users' List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
"hans" needs a hostname.
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