[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Backup thread

[Michael J. Knox]

Elliot Lee wrote:
> 
> On Jun 27, 2006, at 15:09, Curt Moore wrote:
> 
>> As much as it pains me to mention it (as I think of NFS), would it be
>> worth looking at some sort of centralized storage so that the home
>> directories are the same across all boxes?  Likely NFS is not the best
>> solution here but it's the first that came to mind.
> 
> 
> So my impression is that we're supposed to have some disk space  
> available on the NetApp there...
> 
> I think, though, that we want to avoid encouraging people to store  
> anything in their home directories at this point, because then we  wind 
> up starting being a shell-account-hoster instead of focusing on  making 
> Fedora better.
> 
> If we do really need shared homedirs, let's look into putting them on  
> the NetApp. Otherwise, let's just not worry about backing them up...
> 

make shell account holders homes /tmp and make sure there is a cron 
clean up script ;)

Michael