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Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System

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Subject Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System
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On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 06:02:07AM -0700, ray wrote:
> On Saturday, August 26, 2017 at 5:10:05 AM UTC-5, Dan Ritter wrote:
> ...
> > For a single system, etckeeper is an excellent choice. It stores
> > changes anywhere in /etc (and optionally in other places) in
> > git or subversion.
> > 
> > You can go a little farther easily by learning git directly.
> > https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1  is a good resource.
> > 
> > If you have multiple systems that need to be handled in similar 
> > ways, you want to learn an advanced configuration management
> > system like chef, puppet, ansible, salt...
> > 
> > -dsr-
> 
> Dan,  
> 
> Thank you for the list of solutions.  It is interesting that SVN can be used with etckeeper.  It looks like I should learn git.  I have used SVN for other things, but I am easily pulled from my comfort zone for value.  
> 
> There is an interesting challenge here on where/how to keep repositories on a laptop.  It is valuable to have them locally as often my problems are networking; if the repositories are local, I can use another box to view them, but sometimes it may be a challenge to move files when connectivity is lost.  I am sure there is an architecture that will be suitable.  

Sure. git is distributed; you can easily check it out on another
system, and thus have backups anytime you are connected to a
network, while having a complete local record as well.

> It seems like there may be value in using both a config mgr and a
version control system.  I will start checking into these to better
understand.

They are complementary solutions; config management solves "how
to get things in the right shape" problems, and version control
solves "what did this look like before?" problems.

-dsr-

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How to Keep Track of Changes to the System ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2017-08-26 05:40 +0200
  Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2017-08-26 06:10 +0200
    Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2017-08-26 15:10 +0200
  Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System Nemeth Gyorgy <friczy@freemail.hu> - 2017-08-26 11:50 +0200
    Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2017-08-26 15:20 +0200
  Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-08-26 12:10 +0200
    Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2017-08-26 15:30 +0200
      Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-08-26 19:00 +0200
      Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-08-26 23:20 +0200
        Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-27 17:20 +0200
  Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System "hdv@gmail" <hdv.jadev@gmail.com> - 2017-08-27 13:50 +0200
    Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2017-08-31 05:00 +0200
      Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System "hdv@gmail" <hdv.jadev@gmail.com> - 2017-08-31 10:50 +0200
      Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-08-31 23:40 +0200
        Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System hdv@gmail <hdv.jadev@gmail.com> - 2017-09-01 07:50 +0200
          Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-09-01 13:40 +0200
  Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-08-27 16:00 +0200
    Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2017-08-31 05:20 +0200
      Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-08-31 23:40 +0200
  Re: How to Keep Track of Changes to the System Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-27 17:50 +0200

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