Conf File Backup Idea

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Fri Jul 31 23:12:19 UTC 2009


Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 02:23:57PM -0400, Thom Paine wrote:
>> I was wondering if anyone routinely backups their conf files?
>
> Years ago I fell into the habit of using RCS for simple things like
> this.  Create a RCS directory, use 'ci' and 'co' to keep simple
> versions of files.

Well, that surely counts as 'old school' Dave! :)

I didn't realize I was so old, but I used RCS for the same task in the
past.  I've gone from cvs to svn to git in the intervening years.

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