>>>>> "B" == Brian Boonstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
B> Hi
B> I've got a CD-RW drive, and a hankering to back up. I'm using a few
B> GB of space with my potato distribution, but most of that is packages that I
B> could easliy fetch again from the web if my HD crashed. Are there any
B> comments on the following list of directories to backup?
B> /home/
B> /etc/
B> <wherever the dpkg data is stored>
B> /usr/local/
B> One thing I'm wondering: if I do this, how do I restore my list of
B> packages in such a way that dpkg will go out and refetch/install them all?
I'm doing something like this, but it is still by hand at the moment
(there's nothing critical on the machine).
dpkg --get-selections
dpkg --set-selections
(though I haven't tried the latter yet, just read it in the man page...)
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