Re: backup apt tree?

["B. Alexander" <storm16@gmail.com>]

If you are asking what I think you are asking, as in which files would you need to restore your system in the event that you lose your apt and dpkg databases, then I do the following:

/var/backups
/var/cache/apt (less /var/cache/apt/archives)
/var/lib/apt
/var/lib/dpkg

This will give you enough that apt-get update, etc works. Now the rules have probably changed if you use aptitude as I believe it creates/uses a different database.

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Liviu Andronic <landronimirc@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all
What files contain the information on the current ("now") apt tree? I
would like to perform backups of these files so that I could restore
the tree if some package upgrade messed up my Debian testing.

Thank you
Liviu



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