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On Monday 09 June 2003 18:49, you wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm one of those guys who live on the edge (i.e. I don't back things
> up), but I'll soon send my laptop away for repair (the CPU has fried the
> fan bearings so they sound awful) so I'd like to do some kind of minimum
> backup.
>
> I don't feel any need to have the system up and running quickly, should
> anything fail, all I want is to save enough of the config so I can
> rebuild the system if I need to. I use the machine as a workstation, so
> I don't think there are many important config files outside /etc.
>
> If I back up all home directories, /etc, the kernel config file and
> /var/cache/edb/world, would that be enough? If I had to restore, I
> suppose I'd do a stage1 install, copy the old /etc stuff inte /etc and
> then do
>
> emerge < world
>
> And reinstall the home directories.
>
> Would this give me my old system back?
>
>
> /Rasmus Wiman
>
> http://rasmus.wiman.org
> http://dagbok.wiman.org
>
> I program my home computer
> Beam myself into the future

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