Re: Conf File Backup Idea

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On 09-08-01 03:41:12, Terry Barnaby wrote:

> Something that we do to get most of the configuration files backed up
> is:

 ...
rpm -qac --dump  | sed -e "/^(/d" | while read -a line
 ...

> This should backup any files that are marked as configuration files 
> in the RPM packages and have changed. If you has installed tarballs 
> etc, you will obviously have to add any configuration files for those 
> manually. We normally do this during OS updates so we can quickly 
> look back at configuration changes without having to go and get the 
> full backup disk.

Is this so you back up conf files that aren't stored in /etc, or 
because you can't afford the space for a full copy of /etc?

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