Hmmm, does incremental backups sound good in this situation? Anyone? Regards,
Onno At 07:44 PM 1/18/00 +0000, John Gay wrote: > > >I've got some good suggestions, and apparently raised a few questions as well. >Let me outline my reasons for asking and what I hope to do: > >I've got a CD-RW. I plan to use this for back-ups as well as software >publishing. I've also got a SCSI tape drive, but I'm not quite sure how to use >it yet. I've got / as a 500M partition. This is perfect for putting onto a >bootable CD-RW for emergency recovery. Being new, I've already screwed up my >system to the point where it wouldn't boot. Last time I had to do a complete >install. > >I would like to keep the other partitions small enough to put onto just a few >CD's each. Worst-case scenario, I trash a complete partition, I can recover >from >just a few CD's. This also makes backing up each partition less work. I also >want to have a few partitions set aside for CD images. I would feel better >having a number of smaller partitions that I can back-up and recover quickly, >plus fsck would run faster, that just a few really big partitions and lots of >sym-links to hide the facts. I've read the multi-disk HOW-TO, as it has some >good info on partitions sizes and such. I've also read the FHS info as well. I >know StarOffice wants to install in /opt, and apt-get uses /var quite heavily. >I >expect only three users, and maybe a business account, so mail shouldn't be too >much. At the moment I'm more concerned with being able to recover the various >system and user programmes before I make my next mistake as root, rather than >and user data. This would indicate a good scheme for recovering /usr. Probably >spitting it up may help, as long as my / partition would have enough to recover >the rest of the system in case of catastrophic failure. > >Thanks again for your input. I'll have another read of the FHS documents and a >good think.
