Re: Disaster Recovery
Hello
Mark McRitchie (<Mark.McRitchie@salamis.co.uk>) wrote:
> Does anyone know of a good document to read specifically relating to
> Disaster Recovery/Planning of Debian systems?
>
> Any pointers on doing a reinstall of a server to get the packaging
> back to the state of the knackered server?
>
> I'm assuming that performing a base install then restoring config
> would be the way to go, but how do I make sure that the exact same
> package selection then gets installed before restoring /etc ?
By saving the output of
dpkg --get-selections
and feeding it to
dpkg --set-selections
and running
apt-get dselect-upgrade
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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