On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 20:34:12 -0700 Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Replying on Kindle. Short suggestion is recreate > /var/lib/portage/world by hand by adding what you know you want > installed. AFAIK, Gentoo does not have a script or an option to back up the world file and other associated files. After I finish even a small update, I will run my own script to copy /var/lib/portage and /var/db/pkg to another drive for safekeeping. There may not be much point in doing so. If my main HDD fails I will have to reinstall the entire OS, but just in case of some freak accident that may affect the world file I will make the backup. My whole system I will backup once a week, and all very important new data will be backed up (almost) immediately. Frank Peters
