I'm setting up a nightly backup system for my computer. Of course, I want to backup /home/pec and /etc . but I don't think there is any point in backing up all the wonderful Debian packages that are stored in /var . I reason that if something were to cause damage to the package collection in /var it would be much better to download them again from a mirror than to use my own backup, which is likely to be somewhat out of date, and may contain a package that contains the bug that caused my problems.
But I think I would like to have a record of what packages were actually installed. So I'm thinking of writing a script, to be run nightly, that puts a fresh copy of my selections in /etc/apt, e.g. # dpkg --get-selections >/etc/apt/selections But my current plans are to have the backup system running from a remote computer and coming in and grabbing the data over the ethernet. So my question: Is one of the many scripts that are part of a standard Debian system nightly backup already making a fresh daily copy of the selections and stashing somewhere (perhaps in var?) ? TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
