On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 08:25:22AM +0200, Thomas Zander wrote: > On 10 May 2016 at 08:18, O. Hartmann <ohartman_at_zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > > I haven't figured out so far how far this goes. Lucky for those having > > recent /etc/ backups. A pity FreeBSD doens't backup this by default. > > After having shot myself in the foot some time ago, "zfs snapshot" has > become a part of my standard upgrade procedures :-) > No argument that this is valuable, but we cannot rely on filesystem specific solutions. Similar topic came up a few days ago following lunch. It got me thinking of a better way to ensure this kind of thing does not require home-grown foot protection from cannons. It should be fairly trivial to automatically backup /etc (and related) when 'distribution' is run, either intentionally or accidentally (or by commit mistakes, such as this). Glen
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