* Mark Carroll (mark@chaos.x-philes.com) [021009 10:37]: > Being of the belief that a fresh reinstall can help to spring-clean my > machine, my usual approach to backups is to preserve my package selections Leave that belief behind. You're using debian now! =) A good backup strategy is always important, though, always. I think Karsten's page provides good guidelines and advice about how to craft your own backup solution: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html good times, Vineet > and the files that I've added (e.g. in /home/) and modified (e.g. in > /etc/) that wouldn't be recovered in a simple package reinstallation. > > I see that dpkg can tell me about associations between files and packages. > Can I somehow get a list of the md5sums of the package maintainers' > version of the files so I can tell if they were modified? Maybe things > aren't as simple as I'm imagining? Probably even simpler than you're imagining. Just grab your conf files (they're listed in the packages' metadata); it's unlikely that you've changed anything else. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- http://www.eff.org/
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