Hi Joachim, everyone.<br><br>You could always use clonezilla to create an image of your computer, then just regularly update the image, thats what I do most of the time.<br><br>Another idea, and its a quick way to backup a list of all the packages installed into an Ubuntu / Debian machine would be<br>
<i><br>dpkg --get-selections > FILENAME.txt</i><br><br>This command will run dpkg and using standard output, generate a list of all the packages installed on your computer.<br><br>To restore, you need to run the command<br>
<i><br>dpkg --set-selection < FILENAME.txt && apt-get update && apt-get upgrade</i><br><br>This will then install all of your packages, upade the repo, and upgrade your box to the latest versions. <br><br>
All the best<br><br>Les Pounder<br>Blackpool LUG<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Joachim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joachim.jahn@yahoo.co.uk">joachim.jahn@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I don't think we should have separate user groups but I do agree there should be maybe a meeting in the south lakes i.e Barrow area (pure self interest ;-) only ) and one in the North Lakes i.e. Carlisle or Penrith.<br>
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Simon - Thanks for the offer for the lift to the ManLUG, I might take you up on this in the future. At the moment the miss is complaining that I spent to much time on the computer and I don't think she would be too happy me leaving her for a full day for a Linux meeting.<br>
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Does anyone know a good way to backup your system, mainly packages installed and settings? i back up my files already to a SD card and additionally to dropbox. I just want to know a way of quickly recovering my system if I bugger it up again. Not Linux fault usually my fault changing some settings or something.<br>
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Nice to get some activity on here.<br>
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Joachim<br>
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