On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:16:07AM +0000, s. keeling wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty <dtu...@vianet.ca>: > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:00:58AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > On Friday 13 March 2009 08:43:07 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > As for rolling upgrades, great but what about when e.g. a hard > > > drive > > > > fails. > > > > > > It's called a "backup". > > > > Sure, if you want to do a back-up of the whole installed she-bang > > (rather than just the data and the required debs). > > I use the following to do backups. It calls afio using bzip > compression to back up specific filesystems (/home, /etc, /var, ...). > It does not bother to backup anything that's on a Debian install CD. > > Install minimal Debian on new box, drag in your archives, and you're > back to square one. You do not need to "image the drive" a la > Windows. The Debian installer is much better at sorting that stuff > out than you or I.
yea, I do the same thing. However, the OP has the problem that the lenny installer won't run on the box. If you don't want to reinstall a previous version and do an immediate update, then the only other option is a full backup immediatly after the first minimal install+upgrade. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
