[CentOS] Re: Linux backup help

Amos Shapira wrote:
> What about disaster recovery?
> Assuming I take the approach you suggest and have to restore the cache
> (with the tested versions) after it's lost in a disaster, is there a
> way to do that (short of backing it up)? I'd  rather be able to keep a
> list of package versions instead of having to move around entire cache
> backups across continents.

something like this?
rpm -qa > installed_packages