Rob Mahurin <robm@mad.scientist.com> writes: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:59:08PM -0700, Alex Swavely wrote: > > What file(s) would I need to backup to get a complete snapshot of all > > installed packages from the distribution I'm using in order to be able to > > recover a system to it's previous state? > > My nightly backup includes > > /home > /root > /etc > /usr/local > /usr/src/linux/.config > the output of dpkg --get-selections (unedited) Depending on your installation, you might want to add several other directories in /var (e.g. mysql, http is in there by standard). -- Tschoe, Get my gpg-public-key here Jens http://gecius.de/gpg-key.txt
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