backing up /etc using svn

[russo091 at gmail.com (Dmitry Nedospasov)]

Robin,

Have you considered using an svn locally for versioning and then  
rsyncing that remoteley?

This way you could create a repository readable by both root and the  
"trusted" user. The trusted user could then rsync everything off to  
the remote server.

One issue that comes to my mind is, what will happen with permissions?  
I reckon the file permissions will stay the same, however the owner  
might change when restoring. (Or am i wrong?)

D.

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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