Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Backups
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:05:40
Message-Id: 20070930235059.2b91f865@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Backups by Jerry McBride
1 Hello Jerry McBride,
2
3 > > Why not just backup the world list itself, /var/lib/portage/world?
4 > > Your method doesn't distinguish between packages in world and their
5 > > dependencies, emerging from this would result in a screwed world file.
6
7 > It doesn't have too. The files I listed plus a backup of /etc is all
8 > you need...
9
10 So how do you create your world file? And why do you need a list of
11 system files when you have already backed up /etc?
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15 Neil Bothwick
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