Re: Linux upgrade.

On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:27:12 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <vkcv50$1f4ve$2@dont-email.me>:

On Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:23:43 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote:
 

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
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On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 22:04:35 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote:
 

... my yearly tradition is to do multiple full system backup of my
workstation and server this time a year.

 
The only things I consider crucial to back up are my own work. I don?t
bother backing up OS installations, apart from the contents of /etc.

 
Yes, that is what I do, backup data, static data dirs with various OS
Config Dirs.

 
And here’s another tip: before modifying anything in /etc, I try to make
a backup copy with the suffix “-orig” attached. That way, it’s easy to
find all the places I’ve customized the config, with a simple command
like
 
    find /etc -iname \*-orig

Or you could:

# mkdir RCS
# ci -w(your username) -l -d (filename)

rcs, the revision control system, is lightweight and easy to handle.  You
can diff your files with rcsdiff.

Beats keeping around "filename-orig", "filename.old",
"filename.notsoold", "filename.thisoneworkedbefore", etc.

(Or, you could use git, but that's overkill for /etc files...)

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