Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:53:16 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Maxim Khitrov <mkhitrov@gmail.com> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Continuous backup of critical system files Message-ID: <20090824215316.GC43410@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <26ddd1750908240857gb2973b8h7bc06e0a92b82859@mail.gmail.com> References: <26ddd1750908240857gb2973b8h7bc06e0a92b82859@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--f0KYrhQ4vYSV2aJu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:57:25AM -0400, Maxim Khitrov wrote: > Hello all, >=20 > I'm setting up a firewall using FreeBSD 7.2 and thought that it may > not be a bad idea to have a continuous backup for important files like > pf and dnsmasq configurations. <snip> > My initial thought was to create a mercurial repository at the file > system root and exclude everything except for explicitly added files. > I'd then run something like "hg commit -m `date`" from cron every 10 > minutes to record the changes automatically.=20 Isn't this ass-backwards? Configuration files shouldn't change suddenly. My system is to keep all configuration files that I have changed from their defaults in a revision control system repository. That is where I add and (after testing) commit changes to those files. I then use an install script= to copy changed files (based on SHA1 checksum) to their correct location in /e= tc or /usr/local/etc and run restart commands if necessary. So installation is always done from the repository to the filesystem. If a change doesn't work= I just check out the last good version of the file(s), re-run the install scr= ipt and we're back to normal. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --f0KYrhQ4vYSV2aJu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkqTC8wACgkQEnfvsMMhpyW2zACfYfTHn/fHLf6i9mgwnAkB0K2Z SRcAnjZNxWtZfuHhbgtMGauF99PsFNX2 =Wn99 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --f0KYrhQ4vYSV2aJu--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20090824215316.GC43410>