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try cfengine (was: Re: back-up advice - slightly off topic)
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 solomon@barak-online.net wrote:
> After a stupid mistake on my part :-( I ended up reinstalling Mandrake 7.0. I
> thought it wouldn't be a problem since I'm very **religious** about backing up
> on CD-RW, so I didn't think I'd have any problems restoring my settings.
>
> The bad news is that although I had backed up everything, I had very little
> idea what files I needed to restore to get each program, desktop setting, etc
> to work as they did before. True most of the files are in /etc, /boot (my
> customized kernel), /root, or /home, but it took me a while to figure out what
> I needed.
one tool that might help keeping track of changed files is called
'cfengine' (http://www.it.gnu.org/software/cfengine/). it would enable you
to document changes made to system files and system configuration, and
then enforrce these changes on the same machine - or on another machine.
it was designed for usage in large networks mostly.
one important problem: today's linux distributions quite hide the files
that they modify - which makes it harder to follow up on things. well, at
least with linuxconf you have a section with the list of files that it
manages - you can check them up for changes after you modify your
machine's configuration (i don't know how comprehensive this list is,
though).
guy
"For world domination - press 1,
or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
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