I had a laptop stolen and shortly afterwards the two hard drives on a server both failed. Unfortunately, those drives contained the backups of my laptop, and I wasn't able to recover my backup of /var. So on my new laptop I have restored everything except /var, and the question is whether it will be possible to recover the essential parts of /var.
Luckily, before running each backup I save the output of "dpkg -l" in /root, so I have a list of all installed packages and what version is installed. Is it possible to use this information to recreate the data dpkg needs to operate? What exactly is needed? [I realize that I could just reinstall all the packages from scratch. But that would entail answering lots of debconf questions, and doing a lot of merging of conffiles since many packages will have been updated since the laptop was lost. (It was a while ago and I follow testing.) So I'm hoping to avoid a reinstall.] After getting dpkg working, are there any suggestions about how to restore the other parts of /var? Thanks for any advice. Please cc me on replies. Dan -- Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
