In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > That is basically what I do. I back up my /etc tree and my /home tree to a > zip. I do a complete backup once a week in a cron job and it still all fits > on > one zip. > > It does not require much of script > > tar -cf /zip/home.tar.gz -C /home . > tar -cf /zip/etc.tar.gz -C /etc .
You may want to also add a line to the top of this script: dpkg --get-selections > /etc/my_packages.dat so that you can easily recreate the installed packages on your system (which your /etc backup has the config files for...) -Mitch
