[LUAU] Thread on merits of package backups

[Brian Chee]

So here is a snip from a Linux reference, what I'd like to ask is how well
folks think this will actually work?

Being able to backup as small amount of info possible is a very good
thing...
*APT: Backup and restore your software*

*Hopefully you're already backing up your documents in case of a crash, but
did you know that there's no need to back up your whole system? Because of
the way that Linux stores all its programs inside a package manager, it's a
cinch to create a list of all the packages you have installed, then feed
that back into your package manager when you want to restore your system.
To do this, use the dpkg command to save your selections to a backup file,
then read them back in at a later date. Note that you must performapt-get
dselect-upgrade after setting your selections to make the changes happen.*
*dpkg --get-selections > backup_file
dpkg --set-selections < backup_file
apt-get dselect-upgrade*


What do you folks think? Will this get 100% of the system info, or just the
packages and now you have to backup the configs separately.....normally I
backup the whole system, but that's very space intensive.

Brian Chee

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