Backup with rsnapshot

[Knapp]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Brian Wootton<Brian.Meg at btinternet.com> wrote:
> I use rsnapshot to back my system.  I currently backup my home
> directory, /var, and /etc.  Can anyone recommend anything additional
> to backup?
>
>
> There are some packages which install into /opt by default.
> If a package asks me where to install itself I tend to choose
> this directory(partition, in my case).
> brian

Make a back list of all the programs that you installed. Not the
programs themselves but their names so you can apt-get them after a
crash. I don't know about you but I have a ton of stuff that I
installed after the basic install was over. The hardest thing for me
to do when dist upgrading is to reinstall all that software!
-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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