Hi, I'm looking for the right way to restore a backuped debian system: The main system ist archived by "dar", excluding all binaries in /sbin, /bin and the complete /usr directory. There is a list of alle installed packages, retrieved by dpkg --get-selection The backup medium (harddisk) contains a very fundamental debian/woody system.
For the moment, I would consider the following to restore the system: * Boot the backup drive, fdisk & mkfs the new drive and mount it (/mnt/restore for example). * copy the running woody system to the new drive, in order to obtain a runnable system * restore the backup * chroot to /mnt/restore * apt-get update && dpkg --set-selection, apt-get dselect-upgrade and install * lilo && reboot My concern is about restoring the backup before re-installing the packages. Wouldn't that let dpkg think that all packages are installed correctly? (Because /var/lib/dpkg/status) Note that the other order, first install, than restore would not be a lot better: The backup might contain package versions that might be different from the ones installed Is it save to exclude /var/lib/dpkg from the backup as long as a package list is available? Second question: Is there a (direct) way to re-install a package without having to remove and install it again? For example, if /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE got lost and removing/installing is difficult because of dependencies. Regards and TIA, Erhard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
