i am simultaneously curious but filed with extreme skepticism

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ah good i have rarely until now considered "reader mode" to be necessary.
maybe i should finish porting configs over

so i previously tested ansible for keeping configs synced on computers.
i don't think i will bring it back though?
probably, i will just make a fish script that copies dotfiles to a staging folder and another fish script that copies dotfiles from the staging folder to their proper homes.
then i dunno. pyfabric () or sshkit to trigger the deploy ()

@icedquinn May not be what you are looking for but is this really just for backup so you can restore to a point? If so maybe consider incremental backup. I use BTRFS for filling that need. My main drives are all ultra high speed raided NVMe drives and then i have one slow but very large (12TB) spinning metal hard drive also running BTRFS that I backup to.. Makes restoring to a point or just restoring individual files trivial and backups take up minimal resources.

Of all the solutions I've tried, including ones specific to my configuration directories (like git) this has turned out to be the least painful.

@freemo i have an aging gaming desktop and an old thonkpad. i like their configs to be synchronized.

there are also other older mostly decom'd computers here that i just never got rid of. it's nice to boot them on rare occasion to make sure they still work in case something really bad happens.

@icedquinn Ahh so sharing configs to multiple computers.. ok yea thats a very different use case than I envisions. BTRFS isnt likely to be so helpful there.. yea I'd say ansible and/or chef are your two top options then

@freemo yup. salt or ansible are the devops choice.

i had briefly set up a little tiny kerberos domain and it was kind of interesting to have ansible install the domain configs to various computers.

but it's an entire toolchain i only need for the purpose of copying a couple files, so i dunno. might compare the load to have ansible installed and remember how to write playbooks to the load of sshkit (which is basically just an ssh runner for rakefiles.)