On 02/23 04:47 , Jason Hughes wrote: > I suddenly had an urge to do some work on a particular configuration > file and wanted to determine all the changes that had occurred to it > over the lifetime of its backups.
your thought is a good one; that there are multiple revisions of a file available, so a tool could be written to do what you ask. however, keep in mind that this would be a poor second cousin to a real revision control system. (bzr is very good and easy to use). - backuppc operates on a fixed time schedule, vs. on an as-needed schedule. So you might miss a revision that has expired from the backup pool, or miss the earliest revisions of several done during one day. (On the upside, this does mean that revisions do get backed up automatically and don't require human intervention). - history of revisions doesn't go back as far (not that this matters much of the time when controlling config files for admin purposes; but sometimes the last change was months ago and you didn't notice the brokenness until now). -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
