backup systems. (Use Amanda!!)

Young, Charles Charles.Young at Level3.com
Thu Apr 10 15:23:56 EDT 2003


> On 10 Apr 2003 14:17:29 -0400
> Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> 
> > That's not the question at all.  I want to save configuration
> > files.  I don't want to save, e.g. /lib/libc.so
> Then I think Rich answered it with the exclude option. 

Which is fine until I install a new RPM...

Unless there is some way to query the RPM database for all unmodified
files to build the exclude list?  I suppose I could build something
out of the output of "rpm -Va --nodeps"....

-derek
===============SNIP=============

Um,

This seems to assume shared objects are not replaced as part of a
security update or patch process, does it not?  I think they do
occasionally replace these "permanent objects", no?

--Chuck






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