[GLLUG] Ubuntu 13.10

[Karl Schuttler]

It does:

https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/etckeeper.html

Good suggestion; I didn't know about this. Be wary though, if you're
keeping anything secret in /etc you don't want "in the cloud".


On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 11:15:04AM -0500, Tom McArthur wrote:
> >
> > Backups, backups, backups.  :)
> >
> > Even copying xorg.conf to xorg.conf.this_one_works helps to recover
> > from an overwritten file.
>
> Does Ubuntu have 'etckeeper'? I use it on my Fedora and RHEL systems
> to keep track of changes in /etc, and I clone/pull the repo during
> backups.  Very handy because you can check to see what exactly the
> last software update changed in /etc.
>
> --
> Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
> _______________________________________________
> linux-user mailing list
> linux-user at egr.msu.edu
> http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/public/linux-user/attachments/20131104/f51bf729/attachment.html>