Re: Essential backups

[John L. <ch...@la...>]

Hi Michel

, On 17-Oct-01, you wrote:

> 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

Thanks, I'll have to try and backup to my AFFS partition as atm the cd writer
isn't working write with Linux. I just hope that the file names aren't too
long and get truncated.

> If you ever have to reinstall,

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

Cheers.

>> 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. ;)

I know, but I have had a couple of errors on the hd and had no option as the
linux partition had dissappeared ;-)


Regards
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John

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