Backup -- what directories are important?

[Brian Boonstra <boonstb@cmg.FCNBD.COM>]

Hi

	I've got a CD-RW drive, and a hankering to back up.  I'm using a few  
GB of space with my potato distribution, but most of that is packages that I  
could easliy fetch again from the web if my HD crashed.  Are there any  
comments on the following list of directories to backup?


/home/
/etc/
<wherever the dpkg data is stored>
/usr/local/


	One thing I'm wondering:  if I do this, how do I restore my list of  
packages in such a way that dpkg will go out and refetch/install them all?



			- Brian