Debian-Ubuntu weakness to filesystem corruption recovery

[Jamie Jones]

On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 13:28 +0200, chantra wrote:
> Hi,
> >
> > The automatic backups of /var/lib/dpkg are only meant to defend against
> > bugs in dpkg. To cope with filesystem corruption, you should institute
> > your own proper backup scheme.
> >
> >   
> I have to agree that it is your own responsability to make proper 
> backups, but this is rather when running a production environment.
> I do use ubuntu on desktop computers only, Those are not the kind of 
> machine I'm going to worry much about.
> Basically, the interesting datas are in /home.
> But i do find frustrating that because my /var went corrupted I had to 
> reinstall the whole system mainly when the system runned fine after 
> making up a new /var, but the troubled really came up when I wanted to 
> install/update new packages.
> 
> Sure if I were running a productive machine, I would have backup few 
> thing such as mysql dataases, apache logs, postfix logs and datas as 
> well as my configuration files in /etc, but on a desktop computer I was 
> more worried about recovering my system.

You don't consider desktops "production" machines ??? I'd do 1 of 3
things myself.

1) Desktops are thin clients.
2) Backup Desktops
3) Use a standard system image for desktops, and reload it when things
go wrong.

After trying all of them, 1 works best for me with multiple systems now,
but 3 also worked well. 2 suits home users, and honestly /var is not
very big to backup anyway on a "home machine".

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