Using subversion to backup servers

I am new to subversion and have a little experience in using CVS.

I want to use s subversion repository to backup important directories
of several linux servers e.g. etc.

I found that if I import /etc as it is, no /etc is created in the
repository. So I copied /etc/ to a different place, created a parent
and imported it. That worked.

Now my question: How do I get the original /etc to be part of the
repository? And for that matter other directories has / as their
immediate parent. I want to be able to do a "commit" after e.g. an
'aptitude dist-upgrade' or after configuration changes in /etc without
first copying the whole tree to another place and do a commit from
there.

Regards
Johann

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Johann Spies          Telefoon: 021-808 4036
Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch
     "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ; for it 
      is the power of God unto salvation to every one that 
      believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek."  
                             Romans 1:16 
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