Hello Mark McRitchie (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Does anyone know of a good document to read specifically relating to > Disaster Recovery/Planning of Debian systems? > > Any pointers on doing a reinstall of a server to get the packaging > back to the state of the knackered server? > > I'm assuming that performing a base install then restoring config > would be the way to go, but how do I make sure that the exact same > package selection then gets installed before restoring /etc ? By saving the output of dpkg --get-selections and feeding it to dpkg --set-selections and running apt-get dselect-upgrade best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 ICQ #17079270 Registered Linux User #267976 http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]