Re: Full System Restore with tar: Reminder!

2001-01-19 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 10:13:59AM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > dpkg --get-selections > foo does not create a full backup, it only > > creates a backup of installed packages, NOT removed packages. =20 > > > > dpkg --get-selections \* > full will give yo

Re: Full System Restore with tar: Reminder!

2001-01-19 Thread Bob Hilliard
Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dpkg --get-selections > foo does not create a full backup, it only > creates a backup of installed packages, NOT removed packages. =20 > > dpkg --get-selections \* > full will give you a true full backup.=20 > > do both commands and then diff the two fil

Re: Full System Restore with tar: Reminder!

2001-01-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:42:06PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > dpkg --get-selections > filename > > > dpkg --set-selections < filename > > > > > > Bob > > > > Yes, but where would dpkg fetch those files? Can it fetch it, say, > > from my local mirro

Re: Full System Restore with tar: Reminder!

2001-01-18 Thread Bob Hilliard
csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > dpkg --get-selections > filename > > dpkg --set-selections < filename > > > > Bob > > Yes, but where would dpkg fetch those files? Can it fetch it, say, > from my local mirror? No. It gets the information from /var/lib/dpkg/status. You should run d

Re: Full System Restore with tar: Reminder!

2001-01-17 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 02:29:09AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Wednesday 17 January 2001 02:16, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > At 16 Jan 2001 13:38:25 +0200 , Kalle Olavi Niemitalo > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about system restores... > > > > > > ...and I'd like to continue t

Re: Full System Restore with tar: Reminder!

2001-01-17 Thread kmself
on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 02:29:09AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wednesday 17 January 2001 02:16, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > At 16 Jan 2001 13:38:25 +0200 , Kalle Olavi Niemitalo > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about system restores... > > > > > > ...and I'

Re: Full System Restore with tar: Reminder!

2001-01-17 Thread csj
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 02:16, Bob Hilliard wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > At 16 Jan 2001 13:38:25 +0200 , Kalle Olavi Niemitalo > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about system restores... > > > > ...and I'd like to continue the theme. If the worst were to > > happen, what would be the best

Re: Full System Restore with tar: Reminder!

2001-01-16 Thread Bob Hilliard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > At 16 Jan 2001 13:38:25 +0200 , Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote about system restores... > > ...and I'd like to continue the theme. If the worst were to happen, > what would be the best way of getting the same installed packages as > before? Is it

Re: Full System Restore with tar: Reminder!

2001-01-16 Thread garyjones
At 16 Jan 2001 13:38:25 +0200 , Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about system restores... ...and I'd like to continue the theme. If the worst were to happen, what would be the best way of getting the same installed packages as before? Is it possible to give dselect (or apt-get if y

Re: Full System Restore with tar: Reminder!

2001-01-16 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Dennis) writes: > (Note: I just try to do an rmdir as the easiest way to detect > a non-empty directory *and* to detect a non-directory node named > /proc at the same time. Modern versions of mount and fsck allow referring to ext2 file systems by LABEL or GUID (or was it