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Date:      Sat, 12 Aug 2006 22:26:46 +0200
From:      "Martin Tournoij" <carpetsmoker@gmail.com>
To:        "Robin Vley" <viper@fx-services.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Undelete for UFS2?
Message-ID:  <op.td6tqw0uoycwod@carpet>
In-Reply-To: <44DE3833.1060009@fx-services.com>
References:  <44DD336C.1080403@comcast.net> <531772590.20060812103027@rulez.sk> <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608121212340.19972@Psilocybe.Update.UU.SE> <op.td599xuhoycwod@carpet> <96F1B869-255C-403B-9A91-ACA042D2E14C@shire.net> <op.td6p8rdfoycwod@carpet> <44DE3833.1060009@fx-services.com>

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It most certainly is.

If you are using vim, them you can set patchmode
This will keep the original version of a file(for example rc.conf.org)

:help patchmode will tell you more.

This saved me quite a few times after I screwed up a configuration file  
and didn't remember how to get it back again...

> Martin Tournoij wrote:
>
> Martin,
>
>> Snapshots really aren't that complicated, take a look at the handbook  
>> entry:
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/snapshots.html
>
> Quite handy, didn't even know this existed for FBSD. Started using it  
> right away, with the freebsd-snapshot port. Always good to have an extra  
> backup against /etc changes that didn't work out THAT well afterall. :)
>
> /Robin
>





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