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Old 3rd November 2011
Fred974 Fred974 is offline
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Hi ocicat,

FreeBSD is the OS that I will be using. I have been looking around and the support and tutorial is way bigger than OpenBSD. I guess, once i master FreeBSD it shouldn't be that difficult to switch to OpenBSD later on if needed.

My Plan is now to have my web server setup with FreeBSD and have 3 jails in it.
1x for webserver
1x for MySQL DB
1x for Email Server

Now...looking at the FreeBSD manual, the jail get installed in the
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/usr/jail/webserver
/usr/jail/Mysql
/usr/jail/dovecot
I was wondering how this will affect my back up as J65nko pointed out the following:
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Because I use dump for backups, I always create a separate partition for /home.

If it is part of "/usr" and want to create a backup with dump, you have to backup everything in "/usr". Then the backup includes the "/usr/{bin,sbin,local}" directories which roughly make up 80% of the FreeBSD base install. So by having a separate home, you have to backup less
Forgot to mention that i will have to have virtualbox install to host windows xp as it will be used for the office voip

I really need to get the partitions right as i really need to be back online (hostmonster has lost all my files and left me in deep s***)

The hardware is HP Prolian Micro Server with 5Gb Ram and about 250Bg disk

Sorry to bug you all and Thank you very much for all your replies

Fred
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