are you going to back these packages up to another drive or write to them a cd/dvd ? if removable media, do you need to be able to boot from the media with a gentoo kernel for recovery/restore ?
-----Original Message----- From: Bastian Balthazar Bux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 8:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] system backup with quickpkg The following oneline create binary packages for all installed ebuilds. # find /var/db/pkg/ -type d -mindepth 2 -exec quickpkg {} \; adding a backup of /etc is it enough to recreate the same system/installation ? there are drawback, known bugs? tnx -- Francesco Riosa -- [email protected] mailing list -- [email protected] mailing list
