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[Jonas Norlander]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 12:51 PM, David Fletcher<dave at thefletchers.net> wrote:
> Now, the reason for keeping the copy of /etc/?
>
> Amongst other things, it contains the login IDs and passwords for all your
> users!

One thing to point out is that your "backup" of /etc is just a copy
and if you by accident deleted /etc/passwd and your script is run it
will delete passwd from your copy to. I would tar up /etc the same way
as you do with your home folder. With that you several copies of /etc
if something goes wrong and you don't notice it first after several
days.

/ Jonas