backing up /etc using svn

[josholson at gmail.com (Josh Olson)]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:01 AM, Robin Wood<dninja at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone else have this kind of setup and if so, does it work or
> can you point out any alternatives or better ways to do things?

Robin,

I'm not saying your idea is bad, but I've always liked Jamie
Zawinski's idea of rsyncing to a locally attached external disk. One
for your nightly backups, and the other (stored remotely) for monthly
emergency recovery.

http://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html