I would set up some kind of backup strategy. I know its almost too late in the game to bring that up, but you may still be able to pull it off.
That said, what I would suggest to make a rebuild easier, would be to
capture the following:
Capture your package list:
dpkg --get-selections > <hostname>-pkglist
Grab any non-standard directories you have on the machine, e.g. /usr/local,
/opt, /home, etc, as well as a few debian-specific directories (like
/var/backups, /var/cache/debconf, /var/lib, /boot and /lib/modules). From
this I exclude /var/cache/apt/archives, Cache and cache directories
(mozilla and netscape cache directories respectively).
Write these to a CD, and you should be able to rebuild on another drive
without problems:
1. Do the base system install. After reboot, when prompted to start run
deselect, exit out.
2. Log in, mount the CD you made, then do
dpkg --set-selections < /cdrom/<hostname>-pkglist
apt-get dselect-upgrade
3. Go through the configuration, then go ahead and restore from CD
(although you probably want to skip the /var directories if you rebuilt
from scratch).
I actually have a backup script that does a pretty good job of backing
up and is pretty configurable.
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:22:40AM -0800, D. wrote:
> Hi All,
> I know that this has been discussed before so I
> apologize for asking again. I believe that my hard
> drive is on its last leg. Can I do a quick and dirty
> bzip2 / and will that bzip2 by drive so that I can
> copy it to another, then do the bunzip2? I'm looking
> for a easy solution, I can re-install, that's not a
> problem, I just hate to loose some programs that I
> have installed.
> Thanks in advance.
> Don
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