[fhs-discuss] tighten the use and intention of the "/var" hierarchy

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] Bruno Cornec 

Hi,

| So my main concern as a sysadmin is to loose valuable data hidden under
| /var that I could easily forget to backup, whereas if these same data
| were put in another place, it would make that operation much easier.
| Again that may be just me.

Is the rest of /var so large that you want to exclude any of it from
backups?

Maybe I'm odd, but the concept of not backing up all files is very odd
to me due to backup space being relativetly cheap and the cost of not
backing up a given file potentially being huge.

Regards,
-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are