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From: Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com>
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	"Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net>
Subject: Re: better disk reliability on a desktop machine 
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At 2005-07-15 19:35:55+0000, Chuck Swiger writes:

> As someone else suggested, you can also stick things like config
> files into version control (like CVS, subversion, etc), and then
> back that up via the mechanism above.

We do this; all our system config files (except /etc/passwd) are in
Perforce.

Nick B