Bug#612739: store archive/backup files in /etc/lvm/

[Alasdair G Kergon]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:17:51PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
> The best place for these archive/backup files is /var/backups/lvm2.
 
But unfortunately if /var is a separate file system you might need
to restore from the backups in order to regain access to /var!

/etc is better than /var for that reason and the FHS has no 
understanding of this category of file: it's outside the scope
of what the FHS authors considered when they wrote it.

If your /etc is an lvm partition, but /boot is not, then you may
decide that /boot is a better location for these files.

The best place for these files is a non-lvm device which you can
still access if the system fails to boot.

Alasdair