On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 09:49 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Andreas Jaeger said the following on 08/09/2012 07:59 AM:
On the other hand, going forward I suggest to not setup a separate /usr anymore, there's no benefit in it. Backups? More to the point, management of backups. Oh, right, you've got some Sony DAT tape thing that can take half a terabyte and a budget for an endless supply of tapes ... Unlike many of us ... Is there really any need to back up /usr, unless you want a full "bare
Anton Aylward wrote: metal" restore? Of course, there's no reason why you can't back up individual subdirectories if needed.
Not really. And if your / is on LVM you can snapshot it, and backup the snapshot. Or if you are using butter you can do it's equivalent of the same thing. But /usr being a separate partition or not really doesn't have any bearing on that. Unless, possibly, somebody is actually still using dump / restore? In which case, ugh, just stop doing that.