Re: Essential backups

[Michel <mic...@ii...>]

On Thu, 2001-10-18 at 00:23, John Lord wrote:

> I would like to know what are the most important dirs/files to backup
> in case of having to re-install?

I'd say /etc and /home (or any personal data, but that should really be
in /home), maybe /dev, /usr/local and /opt . Everything else should be
reproducible. On a Debian system, you can get a list of the packages you
have installed with

dpkg --get-selections > selections

If you ever have to reinstall,

dpkg --set-selections < selections; apt-get dselect-upgrade


> I am getting fed up trying to remember what I did everytime I have to
> do that.

The point is you shouldn't have to reinstall normally. ;)


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