
		RCSBACKUP
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This is program for backing up files and directories to a RCS archive. If you
are a system administrator you will find it very good for backing up important
system files like /etc/passwd and various other configuration files.
It should be executed regulary by cron, say every hour, and every file that has
been changed since last run will be stored as a new version in corresponding
archive. The files and directories to store can be specified as arguments,
read from a file or read from standard input and contain wildcards.

Except for making it easier to quickly retrieve important systems files from
backup this tool is also useful for tracking down system problems. My experi-
ences from being a system administrator is that many problems that occurs are
caused by changes in system files, either by my self or by fellow sysadms:s.
Many times users complains that things has stopped working that previously did.
Eg. one user complains that a printer has stopped printing since this morning,
you can then first run rlog in the file $RCSBACKUPDIR/etc/printcat,v to see
revision changes from yesterday to now and then run rcsdiff for the revisions
found and the output might point you to what the problem is. 

Also in this package there are examples for a crontab that will run this 
script every hour and an example of an input file. Depending of the type of
your system your should delete a couple of entries from this file. Try to
run it once to see what files rcsbackup could not find and then remove
those from the rcsbackup.dat list, i would though suggest not to run this
as root the first time.

The author make no claims as to the fitness or correctness of this software
for any use whatsoever, and it is provided as is. Any use of this software
is at the user's own risk.

I hope you will enjoy it.

	Lars Berntzon
