Can I omit /srv when backupping my F13 system?

[Joachim Backes]

On 05/06/2010 03:01 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 6 May 2010, Joachim Backes wrote:
>
>> On 05/06/2010 08:19 AM, Joachim Backes wrote:
>>> On 05/06/2010 08:13 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 07:52 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
>>>>> When backupping my F13 system, I omit the directory /srv. Is this
>>>>> correct, or should I backup /srv too (it only contains the "pungi"
>>>>> directory with a "temp" subdirectory with about 35300 MB)?
>>>>>
>>>>> All comments are welcome.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> /srv is site admin managed.  We as a distribution do not install any
>>>> software into there.  Therefor it is rather impossible for us to tell
>>>> you whether to back it up or not, because it depends on if you've placed
>>>> any data in that path or not.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks. But does anybody know wherefrom /srv/pungi with about 35 MB
>>> comes? /srv/pungi does not belong to any rpm, and I can't remember that
>>> I installed some data there.
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Walking a little bit through /srv/pungi, I found files and directories like
>> "./imgcreate-d761yQ/install_root/var/lib/yum/yumdb/z/902c08a6406178c1a1250b98d6f6d0efea421c2b-zbar-0.10-2.fc13-i686"
>>
>> zbar is installed in my F13 box!
>>
>> So /srv/pungi looks for me as place for tempdata of yum. Can this be an
>> explanation?
>>
>
> No - yum doesn't put its data there by default.
>
> I'd look for:
>
> 1. are there any symlinks in /var/cache to that location?
> 2. grep -r /srv/pungi /etc/*
>
> see what comes up.

Hi Seth, no success with these actions. But could it be, that these 
files result from the system installation I did by the F13 livecd?

I found some remarks in

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/Overview


Kind regards

Joachim Backes

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http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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