On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 08:34:44AM -0800, Mike McClain wrote: > I run an older PC, Pentium3 w/ 512M memory which does everything I > need but Iceweasel is killing me since the last couple of upgrades. > > It's become such a memory hog that it ties up the system for minutes > at a time. > > How can I backup to the version of a couple of months ago? > You can always download an upstream distribution. If you want a Debian package of a prior version, however, then the snapshot [0] service is your best bet. Just remember that old packages may have exploitable vulnerabilities, regardless of the source of the package.
Regards, -Roberto [0] http://snapshot.debian.org/ -- Roberto C. Sánchez