On 03/05/2015 11:08 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
'Hotel' - and I put all the _important_ folders there - eg, Downloads, Correspondence, .mozilla, .thunderbird, whatever you think is important to you - and then create SYMLINKS to them from the /home directory. Doing it this way, I can safely format a drive without any worry when installing a new version of oS because all the important files I need are already safely sitting in another place. All I then need to do is to (re)create the symlinks to the files in /Hotel/<whatever> . It seems rather rococo and misses out on a lot. The "lot" are things in /etc, for example, things like the Apache and
.....what I *do* do is create a folder on another drive - let's call it the postfix settings.
I suppose a lot of stuff that _was_ in /etc could be subsumed by using LDAP or YP, but that just means its on another machine -- the database server -- or is on /var and OOPS! That's been deleted or formatted. *sigh*
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