What am I trying to back up? What happened to me was I was running Mepis, and did an apt-get xfce4 (I think it was xfcr4). But then startx wouldn't work any longer. I thought apt-get would be pretty safe... Then I switched to FreeBSD and after a port-upgrade installed the new version of firefox. Then firefox wouldn't work any more.
In both cases I had no clue what had changed, or how to undo it. Hence my original question. I think starting over with OpenBSD will be worth it. But I'm trying to decide on a good way to set up backups right from the start. Are you saying I should put the /usr and /etc directories and so on in a cvs repository? Will I get to know which files to checkout as I install more ports? Or instead of a cvs repository I thought of just taking snapshots before any system changes. But then I thought this should be a common problem so I asked how to go about it. Thanks Stephan On 5/19/05, Aaron Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/19/05, Stephan Wehner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is recommended for bare-metal backups? Scenario: I build a new > > application, but something breaks and I want to revert back. I thought > > a neat way would be to have the whole system under version control. > > Can it be done reliably with one PC only? How do porters go about > > this? > > what do you expect to break? rcs works pretty well for system > configuration files. what are you trying to backup? > > aaron.glenn
