Debian-Ubuntu weakness to filesystem corruption recovery

[chantra]

Hi,
> You don't consider desktops "production" machines ??? I'd do 1 of 3
> things myself.
>
> 1) Desktops are thin clients.
>   
I don't really understand what you mean by that.
> 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".
>   
this is what I'm going to do now (at least /var/lib) ;)