> But ultimately you either need cooperation from the tool that is 
> changing the files, or you need to be regularly snapshotting the file 
> system, monitoring all the files you care about for changes, and when a 
> file gets changed you can copy out the previous version from a snapshot 
> into the place where you want to keep the old versions...
> 
> Or maybe there's a better way someone smarter than I am will suggest...

Configuration management via operating system packages, and not allowing 
*anyone* to modify *anything* except ZFS filesystems other than via packages.
Then, all the problems go away and the systems become throwaway systems.        
                                  


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