<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi, I found something wrong with the way debian handled backups for directories like /var/lib/dpkg. /etc/cron.daily/standard use to save it to /var/backups but then what happens when /var get corrupted ? Do we have to lose variable datas and the whole system, or should we be able to keep the system and just deal with the /var bit? I made an article about this, you can find it on <a href="http://www.debuntu.org/2006/05/12/48-debian-ubuntu-weakness-to-filesystem-corruption-recovery">http://www.debuntu.org/2006/05/12/48-debian-ubuntu-weakness-to-filesystem-corruption-recovery</a> I'm giving more details on what happened and what could have been done to avoid a "disaster". Let me know :) chantra </body> </html>