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backing up /etc using svn
From: dninja at gmail.com (Robin Wood)
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:10:33 +0100
2009/8/10 Dmitry Nedospasov <russo091 at gmail.com>:
Robin, Have you considered using an svn locally for versioning and then rsyncing that remoteley? This way you could create a repository readable by both root and the "trusted" user. The trusted user could then rsync everything off to the remote server. One issue that comes to my mind is, what will happen with permissions? I reckon the file permissions will stay the same, however the owner might change when restoring. (Or am i wrong?)
I hadn't considered that, remotely backup the repo rather than the files. If I did that then I could encrypt the repo before sending it and so any user back it up. I already back up a number of other files that are lumps of other areas so adding one extra won't be any trouble. I know that svn keeps file permissions and think it keeps uid/guid info so restoring a file to the same machine should leave it back with the same ids as it left, especially if the passwd and group file are included in the restore. I'll have to give this a good test before relying on it but I think it should work ok. Robin
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