[ Ubuntu-BD ] I Wanna Backup

[Tarin Mahmood]

oh forgot to mention,

apt-get itself is kind of a download accelerator, it can resume, download
multiple files. I'm not sure but I think it uses wget, which is a very
powerful download manager.

so you don't need to worry about line drops, electricity etc ;)

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Tarin Mahmood <tmahmood at arenamobile.com>
wrote:

> as Nasimul said
> apt-get/synaptic/aptitude stores all the download files in
> "/var/cache/apt/archives" folder, Just backup those files, after installing
> put them back and reload the repository list and then upgrade.
>
>
> On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Kowsheek Mahmood <kowsheek at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> Thank you for replying :D
>>
>> Thing is I mainly want to backup file I download using the Synaptic
>> Package Manager so that if I reinstall Ubuntu somewhere I can have my
>> updates ready. This is a requirement because the download speed I get is not
>> very high (I use Grameen) and I am not using a download accelerator in
>> Ubuntu.
>>
>> As I was told earlier, backing up the /etc folder should suffice I hope.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Kowsheek Mahmood
>> http://profile.to/redkid
>>
>> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Golam Md. Mustafa Bhuyan CN Networks <
>> golam.mustafa at grameenphone.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hei,
>>> Your requirement is not well defined.
>>> If you want to back up your software settings, then
>>> " cp -Rf ~/ [where-you-want-to-backup] " !
>>>
>>> If you want to backup other software, read the relevant
>>> release notes / configuration guides. We need not to
>>> backup everything. Backing up configuration files, which
>>> in most of the cases is in /etc folder is sufficient.
>>> In this case, understanding what we are doing is must.
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Thanking You,
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