Hello Joshua

> Theoretically, a "bare-metal" restore should be possible by 
> backing up the entire filesystem. The restore procedure to a 

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> In practice though, I've found it takes lots of tries to 
> perfect the above procedure and it's often easier to 
> re-install the base OS and just restore critical config 
> files, application files and data to the box. Bare-metal 
> restores *sound* sexy, but really they're often just not useful.

I liked your explanation... ;-)
I think I'll be doing *full* backuppc backup of my server as a first
step to have constant backups.

My thouhgts are related to eventually recovering the situation. As the
server I want to back up is barely a squid proxy, I don't have to back
up great amounts of data as it would be in case of a backuppc pool
itself.
What my concern is about, is the fact that when I'd be reinstalling from
scratch on a new HDD, how would I get to the same state of installed/not
installed packages as it was on its latest useful backup? Is there any
way to somehow extract some sort of "Sysmte State" (like on Windows
boxes) to know which packages are installed, and which aren't? 

Thanks,
Flavio Boniforti

PIRAMIDE INFORMATICA SAGL
Via Ballerini 21
6600 Locarno
Switzerland
Phone: +41 91 751 68 81
Fax: +41 91 751 69 14
Url: http://www.piramide.ch
E-mail: flavio AT piramide DOT ch  

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