Re: Which /var/ contents are disposable
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:54:30 +0000 (UTC)
T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your detailed explain, Karl.
>
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:21:19 +0000, Karl E. Jørgensen wrote:
>
> > * /var/mail - if people are OK losing their mail (but they're
> > usually not).
>
> Oh, I meant home system only, in which my mail queue will guarantee to
> be empty at the time that I chose to backup. Moreover, I'll throw in /
> var/log as well, because I don't care about the logs either.
I backup my home system, and I certainly cannot guarantee that my mail
queue will be empty when I backup. Your configuration is likely
different, but my POP3 retriever (getmail4) uses /var/mail/username as
its mail spool, so I backup /var/log and /var/mail .
Celejar
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