Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 06:50:36 +1000 From: Timothy Smith <timothy@open-networks.net> To: Matt Piechota <piechota@argolis.org> Cc: Yann Golanski <yann@kierun.org>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:21.openssl Message-ID: <434D771C.9000708@open-networks.net> In-Reply-To: <41508.192.35.35.35.1129134388.squirrel@webmail.gigatrex.com> References: <200510111202.j9BC2obf081876@freefall.freebsd.org> <1129036481.434bbac1720a6@webmail.boxke.be> <434BBF09.6040101@htnet.hr> <434CBDC2.4070405@open-networks.net> <20051012082159.GA54387@kierun.org> <41508.192.35.35.35.1129134388.squirrel@webmail.gigatrex.com>
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Matt Piechota wrote: >On Wed, October 12, 2005 4:21 am, Yann Golanski wrote: > > >>Quoth Timothy Smith on Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 17:39:46 +1000 >> >> >>>the make world documents mentioning backing up your system. it fails to >>>give any preffered methods or utilites for doing this. anyone got some >>>input on that. >>> >>> >>I find rdiff-backup to be very good indeed. It's in the port tree. >> >> > >Section 16.11 in the handbook. It's geared towards full-system backups, but >that's probably a good idea anyways. > >Also, couldn't you use ffs snapshots as a backout plan? I don't see anything >obvious to disregard everything after a snapshot in the man pages or handbook, >however. I suppose you could do a recursive diff and copy the files from the >snapshot to the current filesystem. > > > ffs snap shots are all very well when i have pyshical access to the machine.
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