backing up /etc using svn

[dninja at gmail.com (Robin Wood)]

2009/8/10 Josh Olson <josholson at gmail.com>:
> 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

I do rsync backups already, I was thinking of this as either an extra
or replacement. The beauty of this is that it is a constant
incremental backup so I can rollback to any time not just either last
night or last month.

Robin