[2012-06-20 10:36:17 +0200] Arno Gaboury:
My /, /boot and /usr are on a BTRFS /(except /boot on ext2) on a ssd. I want to add this line in my fstab to avoid too many writings on my ssd :
*tmpfs /var/log tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0*
So each time I reboot, my /var/log will be emptied, which could be a problem in case of serious issue on my box. I was then thinking of a way to backup this folder before I shutdown. I found this trick in the Arch forum:
add this in my */etc/rc.local.shutdown*:
|*echo "Copying LOGs..."
now=`date +"%Y%m%d_%Hh%M"` mkdir -p /logs_backup/$now cp -Rp /var/log/* ~/backup/logs_backup/$now/*
My ~ folder is on another HD.
Will this script be enough to do the job?
Why are you inflicting such a complicated setup on yourself if you cannot understand what those three little lines of shell do? That seems to me like a completely backward way of taking the learning curve... Also, please create new threads instead of hijacking random ones. Cheers. -- Gaetan