On May 13, 2005 09:51 am, Kevin Everets wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 08:15:58AM -0400, Martin Hicks wrote: > > You're really making this hard by trying to use a freshly installed > > system and copying changed config files, I think. > > I've done something similar in the past, but the method I used was to > get a list of packages and install that on a fresh system, then rsync > the differences for the directories I cared about (/etc, /home, some > of /var, etc). This ended up a little cleaner than if I had just > rsync'd the entire thing. Exactly - but it's not just "directories" since they contain a mix of config files for the system applications (like the webserver) and system hardware (like the network cards, firewall, raid disks, etc). It would be very useful to have a better split between config files related only to the hardware and config files for the rest. > > As a side note, I now use dirvish to make complete live, revisioned > backups of the server off site. The server is currently using 6.2 > GiB, and I find that dirvish transfers about 600 MiB nightly (keeping > the last week, one for the last several weeks, and one for the last > several months, all automatically). Good thing my transfers aren't > limited to 20 GiB a month like some providers do. Yes, backups are simpler - the main idea being to preserve all those config files exactly as-is. Thanks; Alex ==== > > Kevin. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Avantel Systems, and is believed to be clean.