EOL???

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 28 September 2021 10:33:17 Bo Berglund wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Sep 2021 14:10:45 +0200, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> >OTOH it would be a good chance to _move_ /home to another place...
> > :shrug:
>
> Interesting issue, I always thought that home wopuld need to be in
> /home, which to me infers below /...
> Could it in fact be in a completely different partition of the disk
> (or on another drive altogether) and still be located at /home?
>
Absolutely it can be on a separate drive. However the mount point root is 
AFAIK limited to / so it must be mounted at /home. But the name "home" 
is convention, and it would work just as well if the mountpoint were 
named "emoh" as long as the rest of the system knows about it 
via /etc/fstab. You would, if you have executables in this oddly named 
location, have to compose your own environments $PATH. I do this myself 
so AppImages are chowned to me. Relatively easy then to dl an AppImage 
to /home/me/AppImages, link the dl to a short version of the AppImage 
name, and run it. cura, openscad and 4 or so others live in that sandbox 
here.

> If so how is that accomplished?

via the entry for it in /etc/fstab and inclusion in your env's #PATH.

> If it were it would make my backup scheme so much simpler...

You apparently are not using amanda, its very easy to add another 
directory tree to amanda. And it can be, if you don't want any fancy 
includes or excludes, a single line in the disklist file. It could point 
to 400GB of data, but thats not being practical in real life. Amanda is 
hard to initiially set up, but amcheck can look at what you have and 
tell you how to fix mistakes. What most folks don't get is that amanda 
will fiddle with the schedule and levels in an attempt to backup about 
the same amount to data for each run, but will not let its level0's to 
go more days than you tell it. 

Sure its different, messing with minds that are fixed on one humoungous 
backup on Friday nights, but its also very very good at guarding your 
data.

But I would be remiss if I didn't commemt on backup media. Tapes are 
exposed to the environment, big disks are sealed. Ergo a big disk is in 
my experience, 100's of times more dependable, so I've been using 
terabyte or bigger drives as virtual tapes for over a decade, without 
losing a single byte of data I needed later. My first terabyte drive 
finally got replaced about a year ago. It had 25 reallocated sectors 
when I first queried it at about 1500 spinning hours, and still had only 
25 reallocated sectors, invisible to me, at just north of 67,000 
spinning hours when I pulled it due to a bigger home net to backup.

I would only use the less dependable tape if I were a business that for 
fire etc protection, demanded off site storage, but I'm not. And you 
could do that with more dependable disks in hot swap drawers too. I'm 
just me, with a bigger home net than some small businesses.

> --
> Bo Berglund
> Developer in Sweden


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