der.hans

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der.hans is a technology and entrepreneurial veteran. As a volunteer der.hans endeavors to help build community through user group and conference leadership.

He is co-chair of Open Source Career Day (OSCD) at Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) and chair of the Finance and Partnership committees for SeaGL.

He presents and gives career counseling sessions at large community-led conferences (SCaLE, SeaGL, Tux-Tage, Kielux, GeekBeacon Fest, FOSSASIA, LCA, LFNW, Tübix, OLF ) and many local groups. He is chairman of the Phoenix Linux User Group (PLUG) and founder of the Free Software Stammtisch.

Work roles have included director of engineering, engineering manager, IS manager, system administrator, community college instructor, developer and DBA.

Currently he manages a team of database support engineers at Object Rocket, part of Rackspace Technology.

Find Hans on the Fediverse - https://floss.social/@FLOX_advocate

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Andreas - I love rsnapshot and have some backups that are very much dependent on it. I feel it doesn't provide all the features of etckeeper. Specifically it generally doesn't keep all changes and it doesn't automagically kick off after package management changes.

rsnapshot does provide an important additional feature, namely off-system backups. You can use git to get the off-system backup, but rsnapshot is also a great option for that.

Yeah, tripwire will watch everything if you want. Last I used it was many years ago, does it have an option for keeping revisions and being able to view previous content?

I will have to think about snapshotting like with BtrFS. Maybe I can add that to my presentation on Saturday.

I think it doesn't cover all of the features I want, but it might provide sufficient features to cover the general use case. Like tripwire, it will also cover more of the system than just /etc/.

In any case, I really like etckeeper with snapshotting :).