Re: Backup and Restore Strategy
Bob Freemer wrote:
> I'd really like the ability to do a minimal debian reinstall and then
> simply copy over appropriate files and do apt-get dist-upgrade or
> something like that. Modifying /etc/fstab might be required but other
> than that any other issues to concern myself with?
I usually back up /etc, /boot and anywhere else I've added data (/home
and /usr/local/), plus a list of installed packages (dpkg
--get-selections). Its then relatively easy to wipe the system, install
the base packages, feed in the old installed package list to install
from and overwrite /etc with the backed-up version.
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