Adivce on Partitions

[Thiers Botelho]

On 6/1/06, Scott <listboi at angrykeyboarder.com> wrote:
> On 06/01/2006 01:18 PM, * Andy Anderson spake thusly:
> > [.....]
> >
> > I'd probably use /music.
>
> While we're on the subject, I'd contemplated doing something similar a
> number of years ago (it was either on SUSE or Mandrake I don't recall
> which) and made an inquiry about doing so to a mailing list.
>
> Several people implied that this was a "major no-no". That one never
> creates directories just below /.  One can only have directories there
> that are created by the OS.
>
> So creating "/music" would cause the the polar ice caps to melt 7
> simultaneous earthquakes around the world and major worldwide power outages.
>
> Frankly I can't possibly imagine what difference it makes.
>
> I'm in a similar dilemma right now.
>
> I'd like to do nightly backups of ~/ via a cron job, but I don't want to
> include ~/Downloads ~/Audio or ~/Video as these are huge directories.
> But  I've not figured out how to exclude them from a backup and include
> everything else in ~/ (including hidden files/directories).
>
> So the only solution I've been able to come up with is to move the above
> mentioned subdirectories to /.
>
> But again, I've goatherd that could somehow present problems?
>
> The only problem I can see is that initially the directories would only
> have root permissions, but that's easily remedied.  None of the other
> standard system directories would be touched in this instance.
>
> So, does my idea make sense or does someone know how I could easily back
> up ~/ via a cron job while excluding ~/Audio ~/Video and ~/Downloads?

Dar is a backup utility which is highly configurable. You can have
multiple and nested config files, and among some other neat things you
can compress, slice and catalog content of backups. Of course you can
specify a list of whatever level of dirs and subdirs to include or
exclude from backup.

http://dar.linux.free.fr/

Cheers

Thiers

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>        Scott