Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:42:36 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: upgrading FreeBSD Message-ID: <20050202224236.GA32923@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050202154923.GA82005@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <4200EE07.2070700@comcast.net> <20050202153016.GA66813@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20050202154923.GA82005@lothlorien.nagual.st>
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--nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 04:49:23PM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > You're so right ;-) > Main problem (at least to me) is almost everytime *what* is important > data and what is not? I don't mean my personal stuff (that's the easy > part), but more, which control files and (fine) tunings on the running > system do I not want to loose? /etc and /usr/local/etc are very > important data dirs, but what others are too? Save everything, just to be sure. The following strategy has helped me to keep track of run-control files: In my home-directory, I've created a directory named setup. If I want to change one of the run-control files, the first thing I do is make a copy of that file in ~/setup (or a relevant subdirectory), where I check the unmodified version in rcs(1) with ci(1). Next I check out the files (with co(1)), make the changes I want and check them in again. The last step is to copy the modified run-control file back where it belongs. This way you'll have a single point where all changed run-control files are stored, and thanks to RCS you can even easily see what the changes were between versions. Roland --=20 R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCAVdcEnfvsMMhpyURAny4AJ0Ttgbbp/YJnAkTt2XJeysArSwpCgCfZbBm krRgE9d4I1f0y9dqzxBaHOo= =gL/W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j--
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