Re: Backup with versioning

[Tim Kelley <tim@it.kpt.cc>]

On Saturday 18 December 2004 05:51, Bob Alexander wrote:
> In my neverending tweaking of the system I would like to setup a backup
> cron job which would not only (possibly incrementally) save the files or
> directories I indicate, but for /etc and /home would keep the revisions
> of the files in a versioning schema (like rcs, cvs etc.) so that I have
> the possibility of going back to some previous state of the file.

i think you want to look into rdiff-backup

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