*- On 17 Sep, Brian Boonstra wrote about "Backup -- what directories are important?" > Hi > > I've got a CD-RW drive, and a hankering to back up. I'm using a few > GB of space with my potato distribution, but most of that is packages that I > could easliy fetch again from the web if my HD crashed. Are there any > comments on the following list of directories to backup? > > > /home/ > /etc/ > <wherever the dpkg data is stored>
/var/lib/dpkg but don't back this up if you are going to restore all the packages. > /usr/local/ > > > One thing I'm wondering: if I do this, how do I restore my list of > packages in such a way that dpkg will go out and refetch/install them all? > > dpkg --get-selections > install.list My backup script runs this at the start of every backup and puts the file in a directory that will be backed up. Then after you have installed the base system: dpkg --set-selections < install.list Then fire up dselect and make sure you access method is set up. Then update the available list and jump straight to the install. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
