Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System
On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 06:02:07AM -0700, ray wrote:
> On Saturday, August 26, 2017 at 5:10:05 AM UTC-5, Dan Ritter wrote:
> ...
> > For a single system, etckeeper is an excellent choice. It stores
> > changes anywhere in /etc (and optionally in other places) in
> > git or subversion.
> >
> > You can go a little farther easily by learning git directly.
> > https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1 is a good resource.
> >
> > If you have multiple systems that need to be handled in similar
> > ways, you want to learn an advanced configuration management
> > system like chef, puppet, ansible, salt...
> >
> > -dsr-
>
> Dan,
>
> Thank you for the list of solutions. It is interesting that SVN can be used with etckeeper. It looks like I should learn git. I have used SVN for other things, but I am easily pulled from my comfort zone for value.
>
> There is an interesting challenge here on where/how to keep repositories on a laptop. It is valuable to have them locally as often my problems are networking; if the repositories are local, I can use another box to view them, but sometimes it may be a challenge to move files when connectivity is lost. I am sure there is an architecture that will be suitable.
Sure. git is distributed; you can easily check it out on another
system, and thus have backups anytime you are connected to a
network, while having a complete local record as well.
> It seems like there may be value in using both a config mgr and a
version control system. I will start checking into these to better
understand.
They are complementary solutions; config management solves "how
to get things in the right shape" problems, and version control
solves "what did this look like before?" problems.
-dsr-
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