Using one of those emerge commmands the other week to rebuild everything after a GCC 4.1.something upgrade, I overwrote a couple of key config files under /etc/... . Ouch, not wise. I made the rash assumption that it was a smart merge of the .config files. Don't do that, it is only as smart as the user :^). The only real loss was in the starting of a daemon for pulling data off of my weather station, but it took awhile to recollect the configuration.
A wiser way to go would be to goto my backups. Not having any didn't help -- it was on the to-do list. I found this to be a simple backup scheme for getting those all important configuration files and other data I might need.
Wikipage for Backupscripts and the cron jobs
I will now not repeat that mistake.
Keywords: Gentoo, Linux, cron job for backups, cron script for backups, simple script for linux backups.
Crazy husband. Linux Lore?!
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