Re: Backup and Restore Strategy

2005-05-10 Thread John Fleming
on esting/Sarge. - John - Original Message - From: "Stephen Patterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 2:05 PM Subject: Re: Backup and Restore Strategy Bob Freemer wrote: I'd really like the ability to do a minimal debian reinstall and then sim

Re: Backup and Restore Strategy

2005-05-10 Thread Stephen Patterson
Bob Freemer wrote: > I'd really like the ability to do a minimal debian reinstall and then > simply copy over appropriate files and do apt-get dist-upgrade or > something like that. Modifying /etc/fstab might be required but other > than that any other issues to concern myself with? I usually bac

Backup and Restore Strategy

2005-05-10 Thread Bob Freemer
I've got a server that's running great, but it's on an old AMD 300MHz machine and I'd like to transition to an entirely new system (with different SCSI etc.). What's the best way to go about copying? I've heard I can repopulate /usr/bin with some apt-based method so I don't need to back all that