Todd Zullinger wrote:
Dave Ihnat wrote:
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 02:23:57PM -0400, Thom Paine wrote:
I was wondering if anyone routinely backups their conf files?
Years ago I fell into the habit of using RCS for simple things like
this. Create a RCS directory, use 'ci' and 'co' to keep simple
Bill Davidsen wrote:
I didn't realize I was so old, but I used RCS for the same task in
the past. I've gone from cvs to svn to git in the intervening
years.
Overkill for running on one machine.
There's no overkill in using git for things like this. It's extremely
fast, has amazing disk
I'm a sloppy person, so I set up an rsync-based solution derived from a
script I snagged through googling. It keeps 4-hourly, daily, 4 weekly,
and several monthly rotating backups of the directories I list. Let me
know if you want it. Sometime I'll clean it up some more and put it on
my
On 09-08-02 08:14:25, Thom Paine wrote:
I'm a sloppy person, so I set up an rsync-based solution derived
from a script I snagged through googling. It keeps 4-hourly,
daily, 4 weekly, and several monthly rotating backups of the
directories I list. Let me know if you want it. Sometime
On 08/01/2009 04:58 AM, Tony Nelson wrote:
On 09-07-31 19:17:46, Thom Paine wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll have a look at some of them and see
if I can figure something out.
I don't mind manually making lists of files as I start working with
them. What really prompted this was that I
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 08:41 +0100, Terry Barnaby wrote:
On 08/01/2009 04:58 AM, Tony Nelson wrote:
On 09-07-31 19:17:46, Thom Paine wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll have a look at some of them and see
if I can figure something out.
I don't mind manually making lists of files as I
On 09-08-01 03:41:12, Terry Barnaby wrote:
Something that we do to get most of the configuration files backed up
is:
...
rpm -qac --dump | sed -e /^(/d | while read -a line
...
This should backup any files that are marked as configuration files
in the RPM packages and have changed. If
I was wondering if anyone routinely backups their conf files? I am
trying to figure out a way to just backup any of the conf files I
regularly use so that I can rsync them to an offsite server somewhere.
I'm not looking to do a full server backup, as that isn't really my
intention. I'm looking at
Thom Paine wrote:
I was wondering if anyone routinely backups their conf files? I am
trying to figure out a way to just backup any of the conf files I
regularly use so that I can rsync them to an offsite server
somewhere.
I'm not looking to do a full server backup, as that isn't really my
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 02:23:57PM -0400, Thom Paine wrote:
I was wondering if anyone routinely backups their conf files?
Years ago I fell into the habit of using RCS for simple things like
this. Create a RCS directory, use 'ci' and 'co' to keep simple versions
of files.
Cheers,
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Dave Ihnat wrote:
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 02:23:57PM -0400, Thom Paine wrote:
I was wondering if anyone routinely backups their conf files?
Years ago I fell into the habit of using RCS for simple things like
this. Create a RCS directory, use 'ci' and 'co' to keep simple
versions of files.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll have a look at some of them and see
if I can figure something out.
I don't mind manually making lists of files as I start working with
them. What really prompted this was that I have some home automation
working really well on an old server I had. One power
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 07:12:19PM -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
I didn't realize I was so old, but I used RCS for the same task in the
past.
Heh. Hell, when I say 80 column cards and 8 inch floppies I can
see people figuring how old I am. I still carry a circular slide rule
in my case to flip
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 18:53 -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote:
when I say 80 column cards and 8 inch floppies I can see people
figuring how old I am
I've got one of those lead-pencil (instead of punch) cards sitting right
next to me. ;-)
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[...@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
Thom Paine wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll have a look at some of them and see
if I can figure something out.
I don't mind manually making lists of files as I start working with
them. What really prompted this was that I have some home automation
working really well on an old server I
On 09-07-31 19:17:46, Thom Paine wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll have a look at some of them and see
if I can figure something out.
I don't mind manually making lists of files as I start working with
them. What really prompted this was that I have some home automation
working really
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