Create backup of all installed packages in ubuntu
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APTonCD is a backup tool with a graphical interface that you can create backup of all the packages installed using apt-get,synaptic,creating a removable repository that you can use on other computers.
To install APTonCD,run following command in terminal:
sudo apt-get install aptoncd
When installation finish,open the application at System->Administration->APTonCD.
You’ll see Create and Restore buttons in the window,you can also find them in Tools menu.
Click Create,this window pop up and all of installed packages will select in box automatically.
Click Add button to add more packages you want to backup,then click Burn to start.
If you want to restore the packages,click on Restore or Tools->Restore files.Put a CD into your CD-Rom or select the packages from an APTonCD media.
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Reader Comments
excuse me i have one question about this program ,
when i start my computer and start from recovery mode and chose clean and restart my computer , open aptoncd program i can’t found the installed packages. are you know why?
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Hello XMAX,
Reason for that is, The application APTonCD copies *.deb packages only from cache folder and since the folder was cleaned, there is no way you can get the packages into the APTonCD appli…
Try this, you can get all the packages installed on your machine…This is more efficient compared to APTonCD
# Method of taking the back-up of all the installed packages in an Ubuntu machine
# Src: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=819396
#
# Ignore the warning: dpkg-deb: ignoring 1 warnings about the control file(s)
# warning, ‘./dpkg-repack-20691/DEBIAN/control’ contains user-defined field ‘Original-Maintainer’
sudo apt-get install dpkg-repack fakeroot
mkdir ~/dpkg-repack; cd ~/dpkg-repack
fakeroot -u dpkg-repack `dpkg –get-selections | grep install | cut -f1`
# Copy to the required PC, Get inside the backed up folder and run the installation command!
dpkg -i *.deb
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