Hello there,<br><br>Thanks a lot. I do get better speed then the Windows download agent... but it just seems too slow! 0:)<br>For that I was poking around and found that I could choose my best server (it's somewhere in the Synaptic Package Manager.)<br>
<br>Funny thing is, I was trying out "Select best sever" and it returned that there was no suitable server for me! :P<br><br>Hope none of you faced this, it made me really sad!! :(<br><br>Kowsheek Mahmood<br><a href="http://profile.to/redkid" target="_blank">http://profile.to/redkid</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Tarin Mahmood <<a href="mailto:tmahmood@arenamobile.com">tmahmood@arenamobile.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
oh forgot to mention, <br><br>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.<br><br>so you don't need to worry about line drops, electricity etc ;)<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Tarin Mahmood <<a href="mailto:tmahmood@arenamobile.com" target="_blank">tmahmood@arenamobile.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
as Nasimul said <br>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.<div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Kowsheek Mahmood <<a href="mailto:kowsheek@gmail.com" target="_blank">kowsheek@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello,<br>Thank you for replying :D<br><br>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.<br>
<br>As I was told earlier, backing up the /etc folder should suffice I hope.<br><br>Thank you.<div><br><br>Kowsheek Mahmood<br><a href="http://profile.to/redkid" target="_blank">http://profile.to/redkid</a><br>
<br></div><div><div></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Golam Md. Mustafa Bhuyan CN Networks <<a href="mailto:golam.mustafa@grameenphone.com" target="_blank">golam.mustafa@grameenphone.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hei,<br>
Your requirement is not well defined.<br>
If you want to back up your software settings, then<br>
" cp -Rf ~/ [where-you-want-to-backup] " !<br>
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If you want to backup other software, read the relevant<br>
release notes / configuration guides. We need not to<br>
backup everything. Backing up configuration files, which<br>
in most of the cases is in /etc folder is sufficient.<br>
In this case, understanding what we are doing is must.<br>
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HTH,<br>
Thanking You,<br>
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Mustafa Golam ( )<br>
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