Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 13:44:49 +0200 From: Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff <stdin@niklaas.eu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recovering from X "upgrade" disaster [was: how to downgrade X server] Message-ID: <20160331114449.GF1256@box.niklaas.eu> In-Reply-To: <BLU436-SMTP7294DEC8F95A8D3977466880990@phx.gbl> References: <slrnnfaung.1ae.varro@anukis.local> <slrnnfpbqq.2pc.varro@anukis.local> <BLU436-SMTP7294DEC8F95A8D3977466880990@phx.gbl>
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Carmel [2016-03-31 06:58 -0400] :
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 05:02:18 +0000 (UTC), Will Parsons stated:
>
> >Is there anyone who can give me hope of recovering this system?
> >(I *really* don't want to trash it and reinstall. And even if I did,
> >would there be any reason to think it would work?)
>
> I have experienced the same bullshit in the past. That is why I keep a
> backup of my critical configuration files; ie., Postfix, Dovecot,
> etcetera.
Doing the same here. With sysutils/duply it is quite easy. Simply use / as base
for the backup include what you need to backup, and exclude the rest in
`~/.duply/<backup-name>/{conf,exclude}`. Because of wildcard support it's also
easy to backup configuration files of jails by doing something like
`/**/etc/*`. (In case you intend to backup the next time.)
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