On Jo, 14 iul 11, 11:44:04, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> Due to a combination of fiddling and finger-trouble I have contrived
> to delete part of my /var partition. Unfortunately, I have never
> thought to back up /var, being transient data... Big mistake!
Just for the archives: /var is not transien
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:44 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> Due to a combination of fiddling and finger-trouble I have contrived
> to delete part of my /var partition. Unfortunately, I have never
> thought to back up /var, being transient data... Big mistake!
>
> Anyway, the most pressing prob
On 14/07/11 11:44, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
Due to a combination of fiddling and finger-trouble I have contrived to
delete part of my /var partition. Unfortunately, I have never thought to
back up /var, being transient data... Big mistake!
For the archives, there is a useful script at
http://li
On 14/07/11 13:06, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
A daily backup of /var/lib/dpkg/status is maintained by the system in
/var/backups. Has this directory survived your accident?
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately it hasn't.
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A daily backup of /var/lib/dpkg/status is maintained by the system in
/var/backups. Has this directory survived your accident?
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Jörg-Volker.
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Due to a combination of fiddling and finger-trouble I have contrived to
delete part of my /var partition. Unfortunately, I have never thought to
back up /var, being transient data... Big mistake!
Anyway, the most pressing problem at the moment is that apt fails, due
to missing status data:
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