This sounds like a very nice tool but unless I missed something I don't see that it uses SVN/CVS to show the different revisions. That is scary considering that it might overwrite a good file with a bad file should someone change something.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Ryan West <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rwest@zyedge.com">rwest@zyedge.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Backuppc does a really good job of this BTW. It uses RSYNC, performs basic file level de-duplication and will allow to restore to any version from their interface. It's free and pretty much designed for *NIX boxes already.<br>
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This is listed as their main feature:<br>
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A clever pooling scheme minimizes disk storage and disk I/O. Identical files across multiple backups of the same or different PCs are stored only once resulting in substantial savings in disk storage and disk I/O.<br>
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<a href="http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html" target="_blank">http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/info.html</a><br>
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To: Michael W. Lucas<br>
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Subject: [rancid] Re: DONE: Implementation of the (generic) linux configuration backup-versioning DEVELOPMENT VERSION<br>
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Maybe a way to pass the locations of the configs for each box<br>
individually? The RANCID interface is nice and I wouldnt mind making a<br>
list of each file to be backed up for each box, as most of it would be<br>
copy paste. Also if you do everything from ports (like a good little<br>
UNIX user) all your configs should be in /etc and /usr/local/etc,<br>
backing up anything.conf in all those directories would cover 99% of the<br>
applications out there.<br>
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-=Tom<br>
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Michael W. Lucas wrote:<br>
> FreeBSD's base config would be fairly easy: /etc/rc.conf.<br>
><br>
> The problem would be the configuration of all the secondary daemons:<br>
> ntpd, sendmail, etc.<br>
><br>
> To do this properly, you're probably better off using a real system<br>
> configuration tool. RANCID is absolutely awesome at what it does, but<br>
> trying to extend it to accomodate one of my highly customized FreeBSD<br>
> boxes would be extremely difficult.<br>
><br>
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 04:38:11PM +0200, Diego Ercolani wrote:<br>
><br>
>> ....and of course.... it should work also with FreeBSD....<br>
>> Diego<br>
>><br>
>> In data marted? 07 luglio 2009 16:29:12, Thomas Donnelly ha scritto:<br>
>><br>
>>> Also with FreeBSD remote root logins are not permitted by default so I<br>
>>> would have to change that on every one of my servers.<br>
>>><br>
>>> -=Tom<br>
>>><br>
>>> Sam Munzani wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> Diego,<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Many companies don't allow root user for the SSH. So usually its login<br>
>>>> as normal user then either "su -" or "sudo su -". I think this script<br>
>>>> can be more useful if it considers non root logins.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> My 2 cents.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Thanks,<br>
>>>> Sam<br>
>>>><br>
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