From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Backups
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:50:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070930235059.2b91f865@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709301820.01084.mcbrides9@comcast.net>
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Hello Jerry McBride,
> > Why not just backup the world list itself, /var/lib/portage/world?
> > Your method doesn't distinguish between packages in world and their
> > dependencies, emerging from this would result in a screwed world file.
> It doesn't have too. The files I listed plus a backup of /etc is all
> you need...
So how do you create your world file? And why do you need a list of
system files when you have already backed up /etc?
--
Neil Bothwick
Top Oxymorons Number 37: Sanitary landfill
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Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-29 22:26 [gentoo-user] Backups Grant
2007-09-29 23:06 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2007-09-29 23:28 ` Grant
2007-09-30 1:22 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2007-09-30 1:35 ` Kenneth Prugh
2007-10-01 0:50 ` Dan Farrell
2007-10-03 13:15 ` Matthias Bethke
2007-09-29 23:45 ` Grant
2007-09-30 1:24 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2007-09-30 3:44 ` Mark Shields
2007-09-30 15:37 ` Grant
2007-10-05 15:16 ` Joost Roeleveld
2007-09-30 7:17 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-09-30 0:08 ` Albert Hopkins
2007-09-30 3:38 ` Steen Eugen Poulsen
2007-09-30 10:41 ` Florian Philipp
2007-09-30 15:36 ` Grant
2007-09-30 15:50 ` Grant
2007-09-30 16:14 ` Dale
[not found] ` <49bf44f10709300931q5f5cdd29x304755a624e71945@mail.gmail.com>
2007-09-30 20:16 ` Jerry McBride
2007-09-30 22:02 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-09-30 22:20 ` Jerry McBride
2007-09-30 22:50 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2007-09-30 19:14 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-09-30 16:33 ` Grant
2007-09-30 16:51 ` Florian Philipp
2007-09-30 17:37 ` Grant
2007-09-30 18:45 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-09-30 18:54 ` Grant
2007-09-30 18:35 ` Christopher Copeland
2007-09-30 18:46 ` Grant
2007-09-30 19:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-09-30 19:15 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-09-30 21:40 ` Steve Dommett
2007-10-01 1:03 ` Dan Farrell
2007-10-01 1:09 ` Dan Farrell
2007-10-01 2:15 ` Mark Kirkwood
2007-10-01 16:43 ` [gentoo-user] Backups Francesco Talamona
2007-10-01 20:16 ` Jason Messerschmitt
2007-10-02 0:27 ` Mark Kirkwood
2007-10-02 19:25 ` Francesco Talamona
2007-10-02 23:01 ` Mark Kirkwood
2007-10-03 5:21 ` Francesco Talamona
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-09-09 18:36 [gentoo-user] can not compile / emerge Joseph
2014-09-10 2:59 ` Kerin Millar
2014-09-10 3:21 ` Joseph
2014-09-10 3:27 ` Kerin Millar
2014-09-10 3:50 ` [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] " Joseph
2014-09-10 3:57 ` Kerin Millar
2014-09-10 4:16 ` Joseph
2014-09-10 5:01 ` Kerin Millar
2014-09-10 5:10 ` Kerin Millar
2014-09-10 5:32 ` [gentoo-user] BACKUPS Joseph
2014-09-10 7:14 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-09-10 7:47 ` Dale
2014-09-10 7:51 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-09-10 8:03 ` Dale
2014-09-10 9:13 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-09-10 8:34 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-10 11:03 ` Kerin Millar
2010-02-27 20:02 [gentoo-user] Backups BRM
2005-12-15 14:32 brettholcomb
2005-12-15 13:03 Allan Spagnol Comar
2005-12-15 16:53 ` Richard Fish
2005-12-15 17:27 ` John J. Foster
2005-12-15 19:15 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-12-15 20:04 ` Richard Fish
2005-12-15 20:26 ` Allan Spagnol Comar
2005-12-16 13:13 ` Paweł Madej
2005-12-16 15:20 ` Allan Spagnol Comar
2005-12-15 21:49 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-12-22 14:26 ` Michael Kintzios
2005-12-22 19:30 ` Neil Bothwick
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