On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:59:08PM -0700, Alex Swavely wrote: > What file(s) would I need to backup to get a complete snapshot of all > installed packages from the distribution I'm using in order to be able to > recover a system to it's previous state?
My nightly backup includes /home /root /etc /usr/local /usr/src/linux/.config the output of dpkg --get-selections (unedited) Last year I had a SIMM fail and didn't diagnose it for a while; I got some corruption on my /var and /home paritions and decided to do a full reinstall. I didn't re-format my /usr/local partition, so I didn't need that backup. When I got to the "install packages" part of the install, after the reboot, I exited dselect without doing anything and said # dpkg --set-selections < /mnt/backup/dpkg.selections # apt-get dselect-upgrade As I needed to configure things, I copied their information from my /etc backup and voila! things were as before. All in all, it was quite a smooth recovery. Rob -- You will inherit some money or a small piece of land.
