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. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss
