backing up /etc using svn

[russo091 at gmail.com (Dmitry Nedospasov)]

I think one of the best applications for something like svn is saving  
configuration files.

I usually checkout my configuration for a certain applications, i.e.  
Asterisk and leave a folder svn/ in the /etc/asterisk directory. I  
then append the default conf files with .orig and symlink the files in  
the /etc/asterisk/svn/ direcotry to the /etc/asterisk direcotry.  
Whenever my configuration improves or i'm about to do something new  
completely i commit so that i have a snapshot.

This has proven to be a great solution for what to me, to me is one of  
the harder things to recover after a failure, the configuration file.  
Other than than that i also use rsync, but i think its worth  
mentioning that svn is really useful if versioning might be useful to  
you.

One other thing i've done with svn (although depending on the size of  
the VM this could take forever) is create file snapshots of my xen  
vms, either from LVM by dding them to a file or by copying a .disk  
file, and commiting it. Just make sure you're not making a central  
point of failure in the process ;)

Hope that was insightful,

Dmitry

On Aug 10, 2009, at 14:58 , Josh Olson wrote:

> 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
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