On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:24:32PM -0600, Peter Seebach wrote:
  | In message <Pine.NEB.4.33.0202061509210.26649-100000@rivendell.starwolf.com>, G
  | reywolf writes:
  | >Just a bit of thanks.
  | >
  | >I don't know who came up with the idea to back up /etc files in
  | >/var/backups, but I'm very grateful to you.
  | >
  | >NEVER underestimate the value of that directory.
  | 
  | Seconded, thirded, and reasserted on behalf of everyone who's ever done tech
  | support for a BSD-flavored Unix since that directory was introduced.

It's even more useful since Andrew Brown added support for tracking
changes in the backed-up files with rcs.

Luke.