Hi,

Why are you not putting the backups into
/var/backups/automysqlbackup?

Many other system provided backups go there.

Or is /var/backups/ deprecated?

If you don't want to change it, I would recommend putting a
small note in README.Debian about the reasons.

Thanks

Christian

My proposal for package maintainers, to fit better with FHS and Debian:

Preset /etc/default/automysqlbackup with this value:
BACKUPDIR="/var/backups/automysqlbackup"

This also helps anybody that is reserving space to all backups by
mounting a dedicated volume to /var/backups