Back when I saw Heiko created another file: /cdrom/config/var.tar.bz2
I "ass-umed" that we were going to tar up /var along with /etc, save it
to media, and restore them both upon boot.
But I was wrong. Why would we ever need to save /var? All it has is
log files, run files, and stuff we don't need to save between reboots.
That's until I decided to create a crontab to modify my iptables
rules at different times of the day. :-) Guess what? Yup!
The crontabs are kept in: /var/spool/cron/tabs/
All crontabs are lost after a reboot.
Do I need to create a custom boot script that recreates the crontab from
scratch on every boot? Or should we save some of the /var files in
etc.tar.bz2 or var.tar.bz2? Or should we sym-link /var/spool/cron to
/etc so they get saved? (or none of the above? :)
And, are there other files in /var worth saving? ...
- BS
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