Re: Where configuration is stored on Debian systems
*-joost@pc47.mpn.cp.philips.com ( 8 Jul)
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| On Tue, 7 Jul 1998 CHUCK@URIACC.URI.EDU wrote:
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| > In a reply to an installation question you said (in part) With Debian
| > you "With Debian you only have to keep a minimum of configuration data
| > stored on a couple of floppies to completely rebuild a working system
| > from scratch."
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| > Is there a list somewhere of what those configuration data are?
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| /etc and everything below that is a good candidate. In Debian all
| packages are supposed to put their configuration data in (subdirectories
| of) the /etc directory.
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| /var has theoretically only dynamic data, but some of that may be quite
| valuable nevertheless; /var/www for instance is where (most) apache
| configurations store webpages. IIRC bind puts DNS data in /var/named. If
| you keep important mail in your inbox instead of saving it to a mail
| folder, it's probably in /var/spol/mail/$USER
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| Of course, I left out user home directories, as they (should) contain no
| data that is critical to rebuild a working system. It greatly depends on
| the user how many floppies you'd need to back up that data.
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You probably would also want to keep everything under /var/lib/dpkg.
It has all the info of what packages are installed on your system, etc.
Also a 'dpkg --get-selections > somefile' would be a good idea as well.
so you could do 'dpkg --set-selections < somefile' later on.
Brian
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