> I've been really enjoying your responses here on the list!
I'm really enjoying it here as well and have learned quite a bit
already.
> That being said, I haven't really come up with a workable, steady backup solution
>yet other than keep /home on it's own partition and tarballing data files for storage.
Ha...my backup system for Linux has thus far been to simply tar
everything and move the tar files to my Windows partition. Finally a
use for Windows :-) I do have to work out something better using my
CD-R.
> I have a tape drive installed in the machine,
> but I haven't been able to get it working. I think there's something
Tape drives are ok but CDs seem the better way to go. I've used both
and, at least in a Windows world, the CDs are more convenient...cheaper
too.
> CD-R management??? Haven't even thought about it yet. Well, at least not too hard as
>to acually get me searching for information.
One thing that surprised me in the short discussion about partitioning
was a reference to setting /usr/local/bin in a separate partition from
/usr. It wasn't a surprise because I disagree with it; I was surprised
because it's what I know but my Linux app installations don't seem to
use /usr/local/bin at all. The tars open into /usr/bin. What's up with
that?
All the Unix systems I've used use directories thus:
/bin (small systems utilities)
/usr/bin (more small systems utilities - really a solution to the large
number of them and the fact that we had small drives on which the OS
resided)
/usr/local/bin (all the applications installed locally)
Right now my entire /usr/local tree is empty in spite of there being a
bunch of stuff like xmms, gtoaster, coffeecup, and a bunch of other
utilities. Some of these came from the distribution; others I've
installed myself. Why?
Cheers --- Larry
