Re: Backup/Restore debian package
On 16 Aug 2005, pavel.orehov@gmail.com wrote:
> Is there is a way to save/backup debian installed package ?
if you do your own stuff... you should create your own *.deb pkg
if you create pkg.lst BEFORE you apply apt-get update/apt-get upgrade,
than you will always have the "state" before any pkg that crashed
your system
- to backup your existing deb box
dpkg --get-selections * > /mnt/floppy/pkg.lst
save your config files separately ( /etc, /usr/local/etc )
and any place else you modified config files
- to restore your system to a previous state
install a minimal system
dpkg --set-selections < /mnt/floppy/pkg.lst
restore your config files
\\\ all that is 1 or 2 command lines
== <opinion>
== if you have to restore your system, you're doing something wrong
==
== ie, do NOT test on critical systems that you need to recover when
== it breaks, esp if you cannot recover to any random day at any
== time to simulate that your backup/restore is working right
==
== </opinion>
c ya
alvin
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