On 20091103_114547, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 10:38:41 Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:08:00PM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote:
For the sysems I back up at work, we do the dpkg --get-selections
thing, but
Paul E Condon pecondon at mesanetworks.net writes:
My suggestion is:
# aptitude -F %p %M search '~i' |tr -s ' '|sed 's/ A$/+M/' package-list
followed by (without change except for fixing the missing k
# aptitude install $(cat package-list)
I haven't actually tested this. It is just
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:08:00PM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote:
For the sysems I back up at work, we do the dpkg --get-selections
thing, but I've never kept a copy of the boot sector -- that's an
excellent idea.
I guess the 'state of the art' way of recording a
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 10:38:41 Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:08:00PM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote:
For the sysems I back up at work, we do the dpkg --get-selections
thing, but I've never kept a copy of the boot sector -- that's an
I am truly grateful that I had
good ones and the recovery went well.
For those of us not as Debian educated, you know like me who use Arno-iptables-
firewall instead of Shorewall, I like Terabyte's image for Linux v.2. and if
you're squeamish about paying a fee for this you can have the
Hi all, mildly off-topic, perhaps.
Due to a cascading series of errors on my part yesterday, I managed to
not only wipe over my partition table, but also overwrite enough data
in the actual disk to prevent reasonable recovery of the partitions
with such tools as gpart.
I could recover /boot,
On Sunday 01 November 2009 17:57:49 Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
So here is the real success part of the story: my backups worked! I
had weekly backups of /etc and daily backups of /home. Since I'd not
done any work of consequence in about 24 hours, I had not lost data!
Restoring was a
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 02:57:49PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
Hi all, mildly off-topic, perhaps.
Due to a cascading series of errors on my part yesterday, I managed to
not only wipe over my partition table, but also overwrite enough data
in the actual disk to prevent reasonable
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:20:23PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 02:57:49PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
Hi all, mildly off-topic, perhaps.
Due to a cascading series of errors on my part yesterday, I managed to
not only wipe over my partition table, but also
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 07:08:00PM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote:
On Sunday 01 November 2009 17:57:49 Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
So here is the real success part of the story: my backups worked! I
had weekly backups of /etc and daily backups of /home. Since I'd not
done any work of
On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 14:57:49 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West and...@farwestbilliards.com wrote:
...
3) is just a convenience really. I have a pretty good idea of what
packages I use on a daily basis are, but there are always random
things one forgets and they'll probably crop up routinely over the
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