Hi I've got a CD-RW drive, and a hankering to back up. I'm using a few GB of space with my potato distribution, but most of that is packages that I could easliy fetch again from the web if my HD crashed. Are there any comments on the following list of directories to backup?
/home/ /etc/ <wherever the dpkg data is stored> /usr/local/ One thing I'm wondering: if I do this, how do I restore my list of packages in such a way that dpkg will go out and refetch/install them all? - Brian