Mats Wichmann said on Mon, May 16, 2011 at 08:17:32AM -0600: > On 05/16/2011 05:29 AM, Bruno Cornec wrote: > > Exactly. And typically I'd like to avoid backuping /var, except maybe > > /var/spool. > > well, I can say if you use a package manager for your system (deb, rpm) > you'll be unhappy if you don't back up its state and then have a > problem, unless you intend to rebuild from scratch. Probably better to > think in terms of what parts of /var you *don't* need to back up.
True. I also backup /var/lib (especially for the rpm db content). But fir now, I rather specify what I'm backuping under /var rather than the reverse. Bruno. -- Open Source & Linux Profession Lead EMEA / http://opensource.hp.com HP/Intel/Red Hat Open Source Solutions Initiative / http://www.hpintelco.net http://www.HyPer-Linux.org http://mondorescue.org http://project-builder.org La musique ancienne? http://www.musique-ancienne.org http://www.medieval.org _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
