System drive disaster recovery (was Re: apt package tool)

2019-09-07 Thread David Christensen
On 9/7/19 4:20 PM, Amir Emami wrote: Hi. i uninstalled python completely and deleted the interpreter files. my apt tool corrupted. i installed python again and my apt didnt work yet. then i used 'apt remove(purge) apt' to remove and install apt again now when i'm trying to install it via dpkg -i

Re: migration to wheezy and disaster recovery

2013-04-15 Thread Paul Condon
On 04/13/2013 04:50 PM, Joe wrote: On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:19:18 -0600 Paul Condon wrote: Last week I decided to dist-upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy, thinking I would get in ahead of the rush of stragglers. I found a nice document with lots of step-by-step instruction, and particularly how

Re: migration to wheezy and disaster recovery

2013-04-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Hi Paul, Paul Condon wrote: > Last week I decided to dist-upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy, thinking > I would get in ahead of the rush of stragglers. I found a nice > document with lots of step-by-step instruction, and particularly how > to create a log file of the steps that I actually performed.

Re: migration to wheezy and disaster recovery

2013-04-13 Thread Joe
On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:19:18 -0600 Paul Condon wrote: > Last week I decided to dist-upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy, thinking > I would get in ahead of the rush of stragglers. I found a nice > document with lots of step-by-step instruction, and particularly how > to create a log file of the steps

migration to wheezy and disaster recovery

2013-04-13 Thread Paul Condon
Last week I decided to dist-upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy, thinking I would get in ahead of the rush of stragglers. I found a nice document with lots of step-by-step instruction, and particularly how to create a log file of the steps that I actually performed. I thought I was following it but

Re: Disaster Recovery

2004-06-30 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:02:49PM +0100, Mark McRitchie wrote: } Hi, } } > By saving the output of } > } > dpkg --get-selections } > } > and feeding it to } > } > dpkg --set-selections } > } > and running } > } > apt-get dselect-upgrade } } How does that handle a package which has its selec

RE: Disaster Recovery

2004-06-30 Thread Mark McRitchie
Hi, > By saving the output of > > dpkg --get-selections > > and feeding it to > > dpkg --set-selections > > and running > > apt-get dselect-upgrade How does that handle a package which has its selection set to "hold"? Regards, Mark. -- This e-mail message may contain confidential or privi

Re: Disaster Recovery

2004-06-30 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Mark McRitchie (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Does anyone know of a good document to read specifically relating to > Disaster Recovery/Planning of Debian systems? > > Any pointers on doing a reinstall of a server to get the packaging > back to the state of the knacke

Disaster Recovery

2004-06-30 Thread Mark McRitchie
Title: Message Heyas,   Does anyone know of a good document to read specifically relating to Disaster Recovery/Planning of Debian systems?   Any pointers on doing a reinstall of a server to get the packaging back to the state of the knackered server?   I'm assuming that performing a

Re: Disaster recovery help, please

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 17:18, stan wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:58:31PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:03, stan wrote: --snip-- > > > So, given that I was using liol, what should I do to restore the boot > > > blocks? > > > > Once you've copied the data back ont

Re: Disaster recovery help, please

2003-11-13 Thread stan
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 08:10:26PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:03, stan wrote: > > > Last night I was peacefully using my happy little Debian machine, > > > when it froze. To make a log sad story short, it was a cataos

Re: Disaster recovery help, please

2003-11-13 Thread stan
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:58:31PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:03, stan wrote: > > Last night I was peacefully using my happy little Debian machine, > > when it froze. To make a log sad story short, it was a cataostrophic > > disc failure (still in waranty it turns ou

Re: Disaster recovery help, please

2003-11-12 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:03, stan wrote: > > Last night I was peacefully using my happy little Debian machine, > > when it froze. To make a log sad story short, it was a cataostrophic > > disc failure (still in waranty it turns out). > > > > The g

Re: Disaster recovery help, please

2003-11-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:03, stan wrote: > Last night I was peacefully using my happy little Debian machine, > when it froze. To make a log sad story short, it was a cataostrophic > disc failure (still in waranty it turns out). > > The good news, is that I have Amanda runing every night, so I re

Disaster recovery help, please

2003-11-12 Thread stan
Last night I was peacefully using my happy little Debian machine, when it froze. To make a log sad story short, it was a cataostrophic disc failure (still in waranty it turns out). The good news, is that I have Amanda runing every night, so I really don't think I will lose anything. However I ha

Re: Disaster recovery

2003-02-28 Thread Rich Johnson
;works", but it's not quite what I want. I'd like the deltas between the default installation and my installation. Although disaster recovery is my primary objective, the list of deltas can also be used for other things, including: - problem resolution - i.e. what's non-s

Re: Disaster recovery

2003-02-27 Thread nate
Rich Johnson said: > Yeah, this "works", but it's not quite what I want. I'd like the deltas > between the default installation and my installation. Although disaster use a system like CVS then .. I've been meanin to start using cvs for config files but still haven't gotten around to doing it.

Re: Disaster recovery

2003-02-27 Thread Rich Johnson
Yeah, this "works", but it's not quite what I want. I'd like the deltas between the default installation and my installation. Although disaster recovery is my primary objective, the list of deltas can also be used for other things, including: - problem resolution - i.e.

Re: Disaster recovery

2003-02-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Rich Johnson wrote: > Hi folks-- ... > Is there a way to list the _non-default_, or modified, .conf files > required to transferd/or restore a configuration? > Files like: > - krb5.conf; > - httpd.conf > - timezone > - cron.d files > - bind files > > I already mai

Disaster recovery

2003-02-27 Thread Rich Johnson
Hi folks-- Let's see: To recover from a destroyed machine (fire, flood, head-crash) I need: - debian install disk/CD for the new machine (which may be a different architecture). - list of installed packages (dpkg --get-selections) - backup of non-standard .conf files - server data backup (

Re: cvs disaster recovery

2002-10-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 06:53:06PM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Before anyone brings it up, I know there should have been backups of the > CVS repository. That said, I am in the following situation: > > 1) Machine alpha, which had the CVS repository, is temporarily >unavailable (in a policy

cvs disaster recovery

2002-10-26 Thread Gregory Seidman
Before anyone brings it up, I know there should have been backups of the CVS repository. That said, I am in the following situation: 1) Machine alpha, which had the CVS repository, is temporarily unavailable (in a policy, rather than technical, sense). 2) Machine beta has a completely up-to-da

Re: dpkg disaster recovery

2002-01-28 Thread kar
On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 12:49:45PM -0500, Thomas Shemanske wrote: > Yes, nice hole you've dug... :-) The nice thing about debian is that there's always someone willing to throw you you a rope :) The unfortunate thing about rope is that if you slip it's all too easy to hang yourself from it

dpkg disaster recovery

2002-01-28 Thread kar
Hi, Perhaps someone could help with my problem: I run potato, but wanted to upgrade the whois from the stable whois_4.4.14.deb to the unstable whois_4.5.19_i386.deb. In order to achieve this, I ran the following commands (to meet the required dependencies): % dpkg -i libc6_2.2.5-1_i386.deb %

Re: Disaster recovery plan?

2001-10-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 12:52:50PM -0400, Stan Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm trying to come up with a disaster recovery plan for a Debian potato > system we are deploying at work. > > I would like to hear other peoples sugestiosn on what they are doing about > this.

Re: Disaster recovery plan?

2001-10-21 Thread Alvin Oga
store from a remote disk on a different server c ya alvin On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > I'm trying to come up with a disaster recovery plan for a Debian potato > system we are deploying at work. > > I would like to hear other peoples sugestiosn on what they are d

Disaster recovery plan?

2001-10-21 Thread Stan Brown
I'm trying to come up with a disaster recovery plan for a Debian potato system we are deploying at work. I would like to hear other peoples sugestiosn on what they are doing about this. I'm thinking of making a backup using a SCSI DLT tape drive that will be atached to this sytem, a

Re: Disaster Recovery files

2001-08-16 Thread P Kirk
I'll cp /etc. Its not just wiser...its easier. Many thanks!

Re: Disaster Recovery files

2001-08-15 Thread Mark Carroll
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Alvin Oga wrote: (sn ip) > "for firewall duties"... there should NOT be ppp config setup... > as ppp is insecure ( login/passwd in clear text ) and anybody > can login from anywhere... ?? (snip) PAP and CHAP are okay, aren't they? -- Mark

Re: Disaster Recovery files

2001-08-15 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya patrick you should copy the entire /etc directory its typically 50K in etc.tgz format .. put it on floppy ! sicne there are other files ( /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow that you already missed that you might wnt to keep...else you'd have to ask everybody to recreate their passwds and us

Re: Disaster Recovery files

2001-08-15 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 15 Aug 2001 16:14:27 +0300, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > If I need to do a complete reinstall, and get my little server back to its > current working state, I need to have certain files backed up remotely. I > have a list below of the ones I think I need. > > Are there any other essentia

Disaster Recovery files

2001-08-15 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, If I need to do a complete reinstall, and get my little server back to its current working state, I need to have certain files backed up remotely. I have a list below of the ones I think I need. Are there any other essentials for a working system with only file-sharing, firewall and mutt

Disaster recovery...

1996-10-26 Thread Robert Nicholson
OK I've setup my laptop up to a point that deserves backing up. I'd like to be able to recovery quickly in an emergency. I have my desktop machine which I can NFS to/from the laptop ... Does anybody have any strategies for backing up a laptops installation? The local Packages files reflect what