backing up RPMs

Astral_Nomad · 02-23-2006, 12:17 AM

Im running Mandriva 2006 and wanted to know if theres a way to back up my rpm database and the rpm's themselves..

I just did a *major* download of rpms and it was a huge cost of download usage on my isp and i *dont* want to do it again if i dont have to?

any way to do this?

I have a dvd-burner so storage space is not an issue size-wise for backing up.

Thanks in advance.

reddazz · 02-23-2006, 12:37 AM

Your rpms will have been stored in a subdirectory somewhere in /var/cache/urpmi. I am not sure how long they remain there before the cache is cleaned up so its best to make a backup asap.

Astral_Nomad · 02-23-2006, 12:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reddazz

Your rpms will have been stored in a subdirectory somewhere in /var/cache/urpmi. I am not sure how long they remain there before the cache is cleaned up so its best to make a backup asap.

thanks for the speedy reply.. thats the fastest ive seen here.. didnt send it 5 mins ago.. lol

okay.. will investigate..

thanks a bunch.

Astral_Nomad · 02-27-2006, 12:30 AM

just an update.. it didnt work.. when i went to var/cache/urpmi it was empty and that was *immediately* after grabbing the updates.. thought maybe it was just being difficult because i wasnt in SU mode.. jumped to SU.. nope clean as a whistle there too

reddazz · 02-27-2006, 04:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Astral_Nomad

just an update.. it didnt work.. when i went to var/cache/urpmi it was empty and that was *immediately* after grabbing the updates.. thought maybe it was just being difficult because i wasnt in SU mode.. jumped to SU.. nope clean as a whistle there too

I've just checked and it seems like it cleans the cache once the updates are successfully installed. I will look around for another possible solution.

reddazz · 03-14-2006, 03:16 AM

Ok, I read the urpmi manual a bit more and found the solution. You need to upgrade your system as follows,

Code:

#urpmi --auto-select --noclean

The --noclean switch tells urpmi not to remove the downloaded rpms from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms.

Astral_Nomad · 03-14-2006, 04:06 AM

okay.. thanks..