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Cc: Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>, Thomas Zander <riggs@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: installworld on r299292 through r299317 will replace
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On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 06:32:29 AM Glen Barber wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 08:25:22AM +0200, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > On 10 May 2016 at 08:18, O. Hartmann <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> =
wrote:
> >=20
> > > I haven't figured out so far how far this goes. Lucky for those h=
aving
> > > recent /etc/ backups. A pity FreeBSD doens't backup this by defau=
lt.
> >=20
> > After having shot myself in the foot some time ago, "zfs snapshot" =
has
> > become a part of my standard upgrade procedures :-)
> >=20
>=20
> No argument that this is valuable, but we cannot rely on filesystem
> specific solutions.  Similar topic came up a few days ago following
> lunch.  It got me thinking of a better way to ensure this kind of thi=
ng
> does not require home-grown foot protection from cannons.
>=20
> It should be fairly trivial to automatically backup /etc (and related=
)
> when 'distribution' is run, either intentionally or accidentally (or =
by
> commit mistakes, such as this).

Saving the output of 'etcupdate diff' nightly might not be a bad first =
step.

=2D-=20
John Baldwin
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