I am administrating a system with about 40 or 50 users. They are hard-working, well-meaning people. But it seems like every few days I get a call from one or two of my users, complaining they can't use their accounts. Almost every occasion, it turns out to be that they modified some user settings that they (realistically) shouldn't have bothered.

Up until now, I have had to remove the accounts, re-add them to the system, reconfigure their settings, and then try to recover their files. I need a better solution.

I don't care much about aesthetics, it just needs to work. It has to be reliable, low-maintenance, VERY low cost (free would be nice), and simple to use.

Is there some program/script/built-in-feature that can help?

ps- I've used "system freeze" software on our previous Windows machines. It made a backup copy of any important system or config file I wanted.. any file for that matter. When I needed to rollback my system to that pristine config (from viruses, crashes, bad registry, etc.), it did it, hassle-free. It was what System Restore always dreamed it could be. i miss that kind of capability.

rsnapshot, it's easy to use and it's FOSS:

http://rsnapshot.org/

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That looks like it might work. Thanks!