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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 06:13:14 -0600
From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>
To: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org>
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Subject: Re: purpose of /var/backups
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On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:20:50AM +0000, Daniel Bye wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 04:04:52PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote:
> > On my 5.3-STABLE systems I have a directory in /var called backups. 
> > 
... snip ...
> > 
> > I'm curious, what process are writing these files to this directory?
> 
> periodic daily is at work here.
> 
> --->$ find /etc/periodic -name '*backup*'
> /etc/periodic/daily/200.backup-passwd
> /etc/periodic/daily/210.backup-aliases
> 
> > Does something depend on these files existing?
> 
> Potentially, your ability to recover your system should any of the files
> backed up become corrupted or compromised.
> 
Thank you

-- 
Regards,
Doug