From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 20 8: 4:25 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A21CE37B401 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 08:04:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABA2843ED8 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 08:04:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([172.16.0.95]) by mail.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0KG5bF2000382; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:05:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E2C1DDA.6070807@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:03:38 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Janine C.Buorditez" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Official configuration file backup/managing method/application? References: <20030119215739.23e91e82.johann@broadpark.no> <3E2B2E09.3060904@potentialtech.com> <20030120121059.755faa86.johann@broadpark.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Janine C.Buorditez wrote: > More specific than this list of files I need to manage, one can hardly get ;x > The `FILES' is required by the script at the URL below. But I'd like some other > way. > > Basicly I need to keep all these files backed up and centralized. Now that > 5.0-RELEASE is available, this becomes especially important. For the "centralize backup" I've used rsync to a central backup server. For config files, you only need to recursively backup /etc and /usr/local/etc, so it's not terribly difficult or complicated. > Loose scripts are scripts like these: > > http://www.dnaco.net/~vogelke/Software/Configuration_Management/System_Files/ Quite an interesting script. I find the concept of using RCS a good one, but I still think you'd be sane to just keep everything in /etc and /usr/local/etc backed up/under RCS. I don't know of any "more convenient" method for this. So perhaps my answer is "No, there isn't anything better". But I'm reluctant to say that because I still don't fully understand what you're asking for. Do you want to keep revision control, but find the method presented at the URL to be too difficult? What exactly to you mean by "manage"? Personally, I've been happy with most servers using rsync to keep updated versions on a partition that regularly gets backed up to tape, but I can certainly imagine some people needing/wanting something more sophistocated, such as RCS. >>Well, convenience is a matter of opinion. Personally, I prefer config >>files to some methods provided by other systems. > > What methods, and what systems? Specifically, I find the Windows registry to be a hellhole of configuration. It's made even worse by the plethora of applications that don't use it as it was intended (AutoCAD, for example) but even if they did, I still find it awful. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message