Re: Backup/Restore strategies on Debian

1999-12-17 Thread Ethan Benson
On 17/12/99 Matthew Bloch wrote: I'm not sure where you'd go to back up the list of installed packages so that you could automagically restore them, though. I think that dpkg --get-selections > installedpackages.bkup should do it, then you should be able to do a dpkg --set-selections < insta

Re: Backup/Restore strategies on Debian

1999-12-17 Thread Matthew Bloch
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, andreas p?lsson wrote: > I don't have any mission-critical data or system, so "tar" and "gzip" > are enough for me. afio is similar to tar, but gzips individual files instead of the whole lot, so if you get a corruption it'll more than likely affect only the one file rather t

Backup/Restore strategies on Debian

1999-12-17 Thread andreas pÄlsson
Hello. Lately I have been thinking alot about backups on Unix-systems. I don't have any mission-critical data or system, so "tar" and "gzip" are enough for me. But I was thinking, what is a good backup-strategy when I run Debian? I find it useless to "tar ... gzip" whole "/" and it's subdirector