Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Peter Humphrey <prh@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Backup techniques Was: audio/vidio apps and glibc-2.5?
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:04:10
Message-Id: 200610241401.58442.prh@gotadsl.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Backup techniques Was: audio/vidio apps and glibc-2.5? by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On Tuesday 24 October 2006 13:04, Duncan wrote:
2
3 > For least trouble managing it, the goal in Gentoo terms should be to
4 > include everything installed by portage, together with the portage
5 > database (in /var/db), ...
6
7 Personally, I don't bother backing-up /var/db since it's easily recreated
8 with emerge --metadata.
9
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11 Rgds
12 Peter
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Backup techniques Was: audio/vidio apps and glibc-2.5? "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>