Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-05:21.openssl

From: Timothy Smith (timothy_at_open-networks.net)
Date: 10/12/05

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    Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 06:50:36 +1000
To: Matt Piechota <piechota@argolis.org>

    Matt Piechota wrote:

    >On Wed, October 12, 2005 4:21 am, Yann Golanski wrote:
    >
    >
    >>Quoth Timothy Smith on Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 17:39:46 +1000
    >>
    >>
    >>>the make world documents mentioning backing up your system. it fails to
    >>>give any preffered methods or utilites for doing this. anyone got some
    >>>input on that.
    >>>
    >>>
    >>I find rdiff-backup to be very good indeed. It's in the port tree.
    >>
    >>
    >
    >Section 16.11 in the handbook. It's geared towards full-system backups, but
    >that's probably a good idea anyways.
    >
    >Also, couldn't you use ffs snapshots as a backout plan? I don't see anything
    >obvious to disregard everything after a snapshot in the man pages or handbook,
    >however. I suppose you could do a recursive diff and copy the files from the
    >snapshot to the current filesystem.
    >
    >
    >
    ffs snap shots are all very well when i have pyshical access to the machine.
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