[SAC] Backups on the new vms
Hamish
hamish_b at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 3 07:11:30 EDT 2010
christopher.schmidt wrote:
> Backing up all of /etc/ on all machines seems a reasonable
> thing to do in my opinion.
fwiw the debian upgrade guide recommends
"The main things you'll want to back up are the contents of /etc,
/var/lib/dpkg, /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates and the output of
dpkg --get-selections "*" (the quotes are important)."
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#data-backup
--get-selections is nice because you can later pipe that list of packages
back at --set-selections and have it install all the packages back that
were there before in one go.
Hamish
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