Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > David Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The very idea of all one's system software in a set of homogeneous > > .deb files is probably foreign to most unix administrators. > > Only those with "home brew" systems. In institutional settings it's > also a matter of wasted time. Why fight with a whole installation > procedure when you can simply do: > > restore /dev/tape /
Sure, but restoring from debs will be pretty easy. I don't backup system files. I backup kernels, /etc and /var/lib/dpkg/status* files. I also collect a list of installed debs I can reinstall from CD: # dpkg --get-selections > /backup/debian.selections Peter