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Miika	2010-08-28 , 06:53
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Originally Posted by x-lette

Why do you blame Nokia for that? It's the programmer's decision to put the files wherever they are. Even if there was a central place for "savegames" every programmer could use his own directories. Log files are already spread across the system even there is a central place for them in /var/log.

I'm the one to blame about the placement, but not for the lack of backup. I didn't know where to place the files so I looked up the most authoritative reference I could find, in this case Filesystem Hierarchy Standard 2.3 (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/).

Because the game is installed under /opt/ hierarchy, the standard dictates:

5.12. /var/opt : Variable data for /opt
Variable data of the packages in /opt must be installed in /var/opt/<subdir>, where <subdir> is the name
of the subtree in /opt where the static data from an add-on software package is stored

But for some reason this hierarchy clearly was left out from the backup process.

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