On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 02:38:36PM +0800, Marcelo Araujo wrote: > 2016-05-10 14:32 GMT+08:00 Glen Barber <gjb_at_freebsd.org>: > > > 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). > > > > > As an idea, when we run make installworld before it replaces the files, it > could make a backup of those files that will be replaced to > /var/backups/etc${DATE}/ . > Yes, this is similar to what I was considering implementing. Glen
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