Re: Creating a backup of the system

[Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, [ISO-8859-15] João Silva wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> how can I create a backup of the system? What I mean is, I have lots of
> packages installed; is there a way to save the list of packages that are
> installed, and then use that list in another computer to create a system
> similar to mine?

looks like tim posted the replies earlier with
	--set-selections and --get-selections

	all of the "system backup"  should fit on a floppy

what it wont do is to copy /home/joao   which you have to do differently
	tar zcvf /mnt/backup_media/home/joao.date.tgz /home/joao

c ya
alvin