Date: 29 Jul 2003 17:03:07 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: rtjohan@syspres.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where to put backup files - /var/backups? [Basic Directory Structure Question] Message-ID: <44y8yh9hbo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <003701c35609$3cd7dce0$3d01a8c0@rjc800> References: <003701c35609$3cd7dce0$3d01a8c0@rjc800>
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"Richard Johannesson" <rtjohan@syspres.com> writes: > I have a dedicated hard-drive to store dump files on a daily basis. > > Is there a typical mounting point in the FreeBSD directory structure that is > generally used for backup images? At the moment using /backup, but noticed > that there is a /var/backups directory created by sysinstall. Is this the > typical place the backups are stored? I'm not sure if there's a typical place, but that's not the reason for /var/backups existing: that directory is used by system maintenance scripts for holding previous versions of a few specific critical files (e.g., master.passwd). I don't think of the directory location as all that important an issue: in my own backup scripts, I've always set it up as a tunable variable, although I've never used it as anything other than the default.
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