On 5/16/19 4:12 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
Jorick Astrego <jorick@netbulae.eu> writes:
Maybe split it in 2 disks? One OS and one APP/DATA? You can then backup only one.
I prefer to do this anyway as I then can just redeploy the OS and attach the second disk to get things back up and running. Are you suggesting that /etc and /var should go onto their own disks? There is lots of configuration in /etc (which is usually in the root disk) that needs to be backed up.
Also, different apps store configuration and data in different places, so saying "just put it on a second disk" can be hard.
Sure, it works fine for /home -- but mysql? imapd? ...
-derek
/etc for us is mostly generated by deployment and provisioning, in production at least so that is not a problem. All changes have to go through puppet/ansible. The /var I have been putting on a seperate disk for a long time. And a lot of VM's have separate disks for /data or /home. So this combination works for us but it depends on your layout and whether you have any provisioning/config management tools an procedures running. Regards, Jorick Astrego Met vriendelijke groet, With kind regards, Jorick Astrego Netbulae Virtualization Experts ---------------- Tel: 053 20 30 270 info@netbulae.eu Staalsteden 4-3A KvK 08198180 Fax: 053 20 30 271 www.netbulae.eu 7547 TA Enschede BTW NL821234584B01 ----------------