<quote who="Robert North"> > I am about to re-install Debian, and want to start with a good backup > policy. > > What I know I should backup. > > I know /etc, /var, and /home need backing up. > I intend to rely in knowledge of which debian packages I've installed to > allow be to restore packages from the distribution CDs. > I will also need to backup any downloaded package upgrades. > > According to my theories this should cover everything, > but I suspect in practice this may not be true.
best advice i can give: keep the old drive that has debian on around for a while and install on a new drive, that way everything is available easily. second best advise i can give: back up the entire drive third best i can give: what you have there covers most of it, check to see you don't have anything in /usr/local, there are other scattered directories that sometimes have things, e.g. i put some cgi scripts in /usr/lib/cgi-bin, I have tons of stuff in /usr/local and /usr/src, backup the kernel in /boot if you rolled your own kernel .. it would be cool if there was(maybe there is?) a utility that could scan every file on the system and identify those which are not part of a package, would make for easy backups! or even better compare the md5sums of the ones against the packages, and mark those as well to backup changed files.(though I seem to remember reading that not all packages come with md5sums on the installed files) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
