Another 15 minutes in cyberspace

[mdlbear]

This is basically an update of this post where I explain my plan for re-arranging the fileserver to bring sanity to my backups.

The major change comes about from noticing that /vv/srv already has a fair amount of stuff in it that doesn't need to be backed up, and isn't worth moving. In particular, it has the mail spool, the news spool, and the Debian mirror. Ok then.

So the local collection of websites and other things that I might otherwise have moved into /vv/srv now goes into /vv/share, which makes more sense anyway because it's mostly the kind of stuff that Microsoft and Apple put into their "sharing" control panel applet -- web server and file server data.

It's an open question, of course, whether personal websites like chaoswolf.org and steve.savitzky.net belong in /vv/share or /vv/users. At the moment, it doesn't matter: they're both in the same partition, and both get backed up and archived in the same way.

So the project for this week is to actually, like, move the data. It's a little more work than it looks at first glance, because I also have to make the same set of moves on the backup drive in order to keep from making duplicate copies of tens of gigabytes of audio. And with anything moving out of my home directory, I also have to move the CVS repository tree as well. The reason for doing it now, apart from getting it over and done with at last, is to get it into the monthly backup snapshot on Sunday morning.