Re: Reliable replication of installed packages

["Lucas Albers" <albersl@cs.montana.edu>]

Evan Simpson said:
> I'm trying to come up with a reliable process for "replicating" the set
> of installed packages from one Debian installation to another.  I have
> two use-cases:
>
> 1. Restoring a system from backup.
> 2. Maintaining a secondary server.
Just use systemimager for a complete network to network backup.
You can remotelly for example(downgrade/upgrade a linux installation via
systemimager.
It allows COMPLETE replication of a system.
I had a webserver die and threw on my systemimager backup and had a new
one backup in 30 minutes.
--Luke


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--Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman