Re: backing up /etc

[Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya

assuming oyu have a different disk   mounted as /mnt/backup
	( never backup important data to the same hard disk )

#
# backup of last 7 days
#
# adjust days to when the last time you did your manual backups
#
days=7
ymd=(date +20%y.%m.%d)
#
mount /dev/hdxxxx /mnt/backup
find /etc -mtime -$days -print |tar zcvf/mnt/backup/etc.$ymd.$days.tgz -T -
umount /mnt/backup

scriptize and "cron-ize" the above... :-)

c ya
alvin
http:.//www.Linux-Backup.net ...


On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Shri Shrikumar wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> 
> Simple question - is there a way to backup merely the files in /etc that
> have been modified.
> 
> Only a dozen or so config files have been modified and it seems a bit of
> a waste to backup around 5Mb of config files when the ones that have
> been modified could easily fit on a floppy along with a copy of
> dpkg --get-selections.
> 
> The other reason is what happens if one of the packges (whose config I
> havent touched) has a new standard config file perhaps with better
> security - I would then be overwriting the new one.
> 
> How does apt figure out when config files have been modified before
> asking whether it should install the package maintainers version or keep
> the current one.
> 
> I hope this makes sense and thank you for your time.
>