On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:03 PM, madunix at gmail.com <madunix at gmail.com> wrote: > home folder for backup /backup This is a tactical problem. If you actually read the "File System Hierarchy" guidelines, you'll see that it should be in "/var" as dynamic, volatile content, probably undar "/var/backup". If that backup repository is network mounted for whatever reasons, it also keeps mounting problems off of the "/ directory, which is very desirable.