On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 18:40:57 -0800, you wrote: >Then look at apt-move. Use normal 'apt-get update && apt-get upgrade' >on the 'main' machine, when done, use 'apt-move update'. Depending on >where you tell apt-move to put its things, you can have a local mirror >(usually of just the packages you install ... which makes it a LOT >easier to maintain without burning bandwidth) via http, ftp, nfs, >whatever. > >I periodically burn my deb collection to CD (maybe every 6 months?) as a >sort of backup.
LOL. Thanks I had totally forgotten of its existence since I never use it :-). That combined with rsync will probably do the trick. thanks again, jt ________________________________________ Alternative Computing Solutions... Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org