[K12OSN] backup question

[Robert Arkiletian]

Hi all,
I have two scsi drives. One for / and another for /home. I was
thinking about setting up a cron job to rsync my /home drive to
another backup machine I will setup. But I'm not sure about my /
drive. Do I have to boot from a live cd and mount / and then do the
rsync?

Also I'm going to upgrade to 4.2.1EL this summer any suggestions on
partitioning? Should I have /var or /boot etc on separate partitions?
reasons?

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Robert Arkiletian
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