On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 12:40 PM Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Really, etc update has a facility for skipping whatever files you want. > > Lee <SNIP> >> In my experience with all distros I go outside the distro for this >> sort of issue. Put a copy somewhere, white a little script that >> does a diff on the files you feel are important enough and run >> a cron job hourly that looks for any differences. >> >> HTH, >> Mark
> Absolutely really. It's not only about whether that option works today but whether it keeps working in the future, assuming it really works at all. There's also the case of the machine going down, a disk corrupting, etc. and how long it takes to find the notebook where supposedly we had the notes about how we set things up. And what about other machines using other distros? I'm only offering what I do. I personally wouldn't run the cron job but for all my machines part of my backups is a big list of config files kept elsewhere on the network so that I don't have to reconstruct that sort of config stuff. Add to Walter's list other things like NFS exports and for old people like me it's just easier to be prepared. Just my POV.
