On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 02:06:57PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 13:42 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > I want to remove all the crud from my system in order to be able to run > > backups that are fast, small, and simple. > > > > I installed gnome and kde at one point but I never use them. > > I have no intention of reinstalling them at a later date. > > The issue here is that you only need to backup your data. Backups > of /usr and /var and so on mean nothing. > > dpkg --get-selections > installed.packages.list > > tar jcvf $DATE-backup.tar.bz2 /home installed.packages.list /etc > > It really make ZERO sense to do full backups this way. Debian can be > installed as a base system and then re-installed faster and easier than > restoring. > > You really only need backup your list of installed packages, /etc > and /home and anywhere else you have stored REAL data. > > Remember, you are not dealing with Windows. Most Unix systems, things > like Netware and OSX are all designed to be re-installed quickly and > then the "data" restored quickly. > > A /usr on a CD does you a crap-load of no-good if you system is toast.
What you _may_ want to do, especially if you're on a slow (or no) network link is to make a cache of the debs that are installed on your system. I think that there are some packages that make custom CDs to restore your existing setup. That plus /etc, /home, /usr/local, and /var/local, plus info you need to reinstall (like outputs of sfdisk -d, fdisk -lu, dpkg --get-selections, and your bootloader config), should be everything you need to backup. Some database systems have their own backup procedures over and above this. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
