backing up /etc using svn

[dninja at gmail.com (Robin Wood)]

2009/8/10 Mike Patterson <mike.patterson at unb.ca>:
> Dmitry Nedospasov wrote on 8/10/09 9:45 AM:
> > Robin,
> >
> > Have you considered using an svn locally for versioning and then
> > rsyncing that remoteley?
>
> svn's a lot of overhead to store a few config files. ?Granted, disk
> space isn't what it used to be (small and expensive), but I find RCS and
> taking a copy of the RCS repo works quite nicely.
>
> svn's like nuking a building to fumigate it in this case.

I only went svn because I already have svn repos for client work so it
wouldn't need any extra learning curve/tools to get it running.

Robin