On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:54:30 +0000 (UTC) T o n g <mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your detailed explain, Karl. > > On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:21:19 +0000, Karl E. Jørgensen wrote: > > > * /var/mail - if people are OK losing their mail (but they're > > usually not). > > Oh, I meant home system only, in which my mail queue will guarantee to > be empty at the time that I chose to backup. Moreover, I'll throw in / > var/log as well, because I don't care about the logs either. I backup my home system, and I certainly cannot guarantee that my mail queue will be empty when I backup. Your configuration is likely different, but my POP3 retriever (getmail4) uses /var/mail/username as its mail spool, so I backup /var/log and /var/mail . Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120111221858.64ce79ba.cele...@gmail.com
