Re: Lost /var/backups
On 2016-08-04 20:45 +0200, Tilo Werner wrote:
> accidentally I lost all files under /var/backups. It was a mistake while
> I was configuring the backup procedure o_O So I got no backup.
>
> Does anybody know how they were created?
Most of them are created by cron jobs (look in /etc/cron.daily), apt in
testing and unstable has switched to a systemd service
(/usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily).
> On an other system, when I install packages or add users the files where
> altered. On this system nothing happens. Maybe I'm missing some packages
> and there had been no files at all.
Do you have cron installed on that system?
Cheers,
Sven
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