On Wednesday 08 September 2004 03:29 pm, Rick DeNatale wrote: > I've been playing with my personal linux system for about a year now, > tinkering, tinkering, always tinkering. > > I've tried to keep notes on what I've done, not always successfully. > > The thread about CVS has me thinking about what techniques and tools > others might be using to semi-automatically keep track of changes. > > Using CVS to keep version trees of config files seems a little > heavyweight to me, is anyone doing anything like this or are there > other, better tools for that?
I do this simply because I never forget to backup and archive my personal CVS tree. When I thought, "Ah, everything important is under /home/," and chose to "install" instead of "upgrade" Red Hat, I lost /etc/. A few times. Now I keep a copy of the important config files in CVS. That CVS book I keep mentioning talks about tracking such changes with CVS on a larger scale. > Most of my notes are kept in an Open Office word document. Other than my copy of files in CVS, I also keep a plain text document for system changes. I put information about changes I'm making, software I'm installing, etc. It helps me remember little details like the exact arguments that I normally use for commands that I don't use often and the specific error messages that I got and how I solve them (for later searching). And a real paper notebook. I like to keep hardcopies of things like my partition table just in case I really screw something up and can't get to any of my files. ---Tom -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
