On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 04:49:23PM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > You're so right ;-) > Main problem (at least to me) is almost everytime *what* is important > data and what is not? I don't mean my personal stuff (that's the easy > part), but more, which control files and (fine) tunings on the running > system do I not want to loose? /etc and /usr/local/etc are very > important data dirs, but what others are too?
Save everything, just to be sure. The following strategy has helped me to keep track of run-control files: In my home-directory, I've created a directory named setup. If I want to change one of the run-control files, the first thing I do is make a copy of that file in ~/setup (or a relevant subdirectory), where I check the unmodified version in rcs(1) with ci(1). Next I check out the files (with co(1)), make the changes I want and check them in again. The last step is to copy the modified run-control file back where it belongs. This way you'll have a single point where all changed run-control files are stored, and thanks to RCS you can even easily see what the changes were between versions. Roland -- R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards
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