Re: Backing up just my personal stuff (was: backing up a complet
On 05-Aug-99 Wim Kerkhoff wrote:
>> /usr/local is about 760Mb (723Mb of that is a partial mirror
>> of Debian)
>
> I presume you mean that these are potato packages you have downloaded since
> an
> initial install of slink.
>
> What would the best & easiest way of making such a partial mirror or all
> packages in potato that are different from slink? With such a mirror, I
> could
> install what I want using my official slink CD set, then update to my current
> state with the partial mirror. This would be really, really handy in case my
> system buggers up (or I bugger it up).
>
> When apt-get downloads packages, it puts them in /var/archive/apt/cache
>
Damn, I am getting pissed of at xfmail. It keeps flushing the outbox on me
when I don't want it to.
Anyways, I want to set up something, so that whatever apt-get downloads is stuc
k into a proper hierachy like the mirrors do, and possibly a package file as
well. That way, when I want to reinstall, I just install whatever off the CD,
and upgrade to potato with my partial mirror. It does *kinda* suck to have to
re-download all those packages again at 5kb/sec :)
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Wim Kerkhoff
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