Re: A pipe dream?
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 06:58:20PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote:
> In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> >
> > That is basically what I do. I back up my /etc tree and my /home tree to a
> > zip. I do a complete backup once a week in a cron job and it still all fits on
> > one zip.
> >
> > It does not require much of script
> >
> > tar -cf /zip/home.tar.gz -C /home .
> > tar -cf /zip/etc.tar.gz -C /etc .
>
> You may want to also add a line to the top of this script:
>
> dpkg --get-selections > /etc/my_packages.dat
>
> so that you can easily recreate the installed packages on your system
> (which your /etc backup has the config files for...)
>
> -Mitch
>
>
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Interesting idea. I'm getting a CD-RW soon and may try that. I'd backup two more directories:
/var - (dpkg databases, mysql data, web data)
/usr/local - a whole lot of stuff I've installed and compiled myself
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