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| From | Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.raspberry-pi |
| Subject | Re: My darn NAS... |
| Date | 2021-01-14 15:22 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <rtpnj5$f78$5@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <rtp8k8$55d$5@dont-email.me> <610634576@f1.n770.z6810.fidonet.org> <rtpgma$f78$2@dont-email.me> <rtphie$881$1@dont-email.me> |
On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 13:39:26 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 14/01/2021 13:24, Martin Gregorie wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 06:36:06 +1300, Richard Falken wrote: >> >>> Re: Re: My darn NAS... >>> By: The Natural Philosopher to Chris Green on Thu Jan 14 2021 11:06 >>> am >>> >>> > depends on what you want. I rsync huge amounts of data. Disk space >>> > is cheap. Recovering from data loss is not, Working out what is >>> > important and what is not is even more expensive. >>> > >>> > >>> I agree with this position. >>> >>> I know that just backing up the data that is not easily reproductible >>> suffices, >>> in theory. However, if you only back the data up without the >>> applications and the OS stack, your recovery consits on a sysadmin >>> installing software for a week and swearing at his notebook. >> >> Theres a simple tweak that fixes most of that stuff: move /usr/local to >> /home local and replace it with a symlink to /home/local >> >> I've done the the equivalent with my (large) PostgreSQL databases and >> my local Apache- based website (by default these are in /var, so I >> changed their configurations to put these files in /home too. >> >> Everything continues to work as before but now I've secured almost all >> of my own work and customisation by backing up /home >> >> The only thing thats not safeguarded now is the contents of /etc, so >> either back that up along with /home or keep copies of everything in >> /etc that you've explicitly changed in, say, your normal home login. I >> do the latter but of course ymmv. Changes in /etc made by software >> updates don't need backing up because they'll be automatically >> reapplied when you're rebuilding the failed device that holds your >> filing system. >> >> > what about /var that contains all the webs servers and Mysql databases > by default? /opt as well has stuff in it. /boot has grub configs As I said, I don't need to back up /var because I moved the stuff that defaults to /var that I've explicitly set up (PostgreSQL database, Apache website) into dedicated logins in /home and changed the PostgreSQL and Apache configurations accordingly. Copies of those configuration files are are in my main login directory, which is, of course, in /home and so automatically backed up along with everything else in it. I've never made changes in /opt, so I don't need to back it up: a reinstall will fix it. Similarly I haven't made any changes to the grub configuration, so don't need to back it up because the Fedora 'install over the net with dnf' will restore that automatically. -- -- Martin | martin at Gregorie | gregorie dot org
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Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-14 12:53 +0000
Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 13:19 +0000
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Re: My darn NAS... druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2021-01-14 17:31 +0000
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Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-14 13:39 +0000
Re: My darn NAS... Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2021-01-14 14:07 +0000
Re: My darn NAS... Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2021-01-14 15:22 +0000
Re: My darn NAS... Scott Alfter <scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us> - 2021-01-14 20:08 +0000
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Re: My darn NAS... nospam.paul.lee@f420.n105.z1.binkp.net (paul lee) - 2021-01-21 18:06 +1300
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Re: My darn NAS... The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-01-13 12:09 +0000
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