On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:51:13PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > * Package name : debbackup > Version : 0.1 > Upstream Author : Daniel Stone <dstone@trinity.unimelb.edu.au> > * URL : http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/~dstone/debbackup/ > (not functional yet) > * License : GPL > Description : Backup and restore Debian specifics (package status, conffiles) > > debbackup is a supplemental, Debian-specific, backup program. It backs > up only what is needed to restore from a fresh install, with data > recovered - package information (including holds/etc), conffile changes, > Debconf information, and more. debrestore will restore this information > - installing/updating required packages, restoring configuration files, > and more. Hey, how far along is this? I've been thinking that this would be very possible and very useful. Including having the result be an ISO image and combine with one of those autoinstall tools to automatically recreate a machine without intervention. Fill up any remaining space with a copy of base and any other large packages. Just dreaming, ok? :) -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > "the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or > religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. > Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do." > - Samuel P. Huntington
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