Re: script for on-disk configuration file backup
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 03:50:15PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> The script, below, really has two functions. One is to make a
> backup copy of any changed file in /etc. I used "savelog" to
> keep the last few revisions of the files. The second function
> is to keep /etc a little more tidy. The script deletes all editor
> backup files (*~), and notifies me when there is a .dpkg-new or
> .dpkg-old copy lying about. I run this in cron.daily, so I keep
> getting reminders until I go in and clean these up by hand.
Nice work, i'm installing it on all my machines right now.
>
> After running this for a few months, I've discovered that some
> packages make their own backup copies of config files. Setserial, for
> example backs up /etc/serial.conf to /etc/.serial.conf.old. I've
> put exceptions in to ignore the ones I've found. The script
How about making some sym-links to those files. That why all back-up
files can be accessed from one directory. You only have to do this once,
when the target files are rotated, the symlinks will point to the
correct file.
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