[LUAU] Thread on merits of package backups

[Jeff Mings]

I sorta do that now...
E.g., for a box that is primarily a file server I periodically make 
backups of /etc and then frequent backups of the clients' data.  Hard 
drives don't fail that often.  The biggest need for backups/restoration 
is when a client deletes/damages/edits one or more files and needs to 
get the right data back.

-Jeff Mings


On 11/27/2011 09:17 PM, Brian Chee wrote:
> 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
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
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