[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] dcron 4.2

[Aaron Griffin]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Jim Pryor
<lists+arch-general at jimpryor.net> wrote:
> I know, I've been bitten too. I highly recommend setting up a script to
> backup your /etc directory daily, and keep at least a week or so of
> rotated backups. If you've got a good backup system, you can just
> include this in it. If not, you should get one. But you could in the
> meantime, or additionally, just set up a separate /etc backup. It
> needn't take up much space. My /etc is 9 M and the total of a week's
> worth of daily backups and three weeks of weekly backups beyond that is
> 20 M. Look into rdiff-backup or rsnapshot.

We use this at work:
http://joey.kitenet.net/code/etckeeper/