[nmglug] "save the data" fresh install ubuntu 10.10

[David Borton]

Good points-

Verify that you are capturing your hidden folders to the external device 
(every file/folder name starting with '.' (to see them use command ls 
-a)), and
don't assume that everything worth keeping is in the home directory ~; 
think databases, web sites, ...

Good luck Anthony.

On 12/29/2010 09:23 PM, Rob Haag wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to the list but an experienced Ubuntu user...
>
> As David said, you may not want all of the data from the home 
> folder....although I personally would recommend saving everything from 
> the home folder to an external source, or somewhere that the new 
> install will not affect. Get all of your hidden folders too, this way 
> if you later decide you need something like the .mozilla stuff (this 
> is where you will find your Firefox profile and bookmarks backup), 
> then you still have it. I always have stuff floating around in there 
> (hidden home files), like in the .gnome2 folder where I will find all 
> of my nautilus scripts or custom themes/icons, there is not much else 
> typically but all the extras will not take very much space at all. 
> Other than little things like that, you will mostly be interested in 
> what you can 'normally' see in your home folder including /Desktop 
> (and I try to exclude the /example link). It may be worth mentioning 
> that sometimes there are things in other places, like for instance if 
> you are running a MySQL database, then you will want to make a dump of 
> your databases, or copy everything out of your /var/lib/mysql 
> folder...but that would just be a precaution in case your sql dumps 
> failed. I actually make a snapshot of my /var folder just in case, 
> snapshots of my /home folder and /var folder pretty much covers 
> everything for me personally. If you keep an install of Ubuntu, and 
> rely on the data heavily then rsnapshot is a very handy tool (in the 
> repos), it uses rsync (although I use it locally), to make incremental 
> snapshots of whatever you tell it to. This way, you can just preserve 
> your backup (snapshot) folder, and wipe everything else knowing that 
> you can restore your data from a snapshot, mine is setup to make 6 
> hourlys, 7 dailys, and 1 weekly so I can go back in time.
>
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:45 PM, David Borton <dave at famjam.net 
> <mailto:dave at famjam.net>> wrote:
>
>     I did this recently.   I simply saved the data I wanted (all of
>     home/~) onto an external USB drive, installed 10.10, mounted the
>     USB again and copied in the files (cp -r).    You might not want
>     to bring in all of /home/~, but just focus on actual data.
>      Bringing in everything would likely screw up your login.
>
>     -david
>
>
>     On 12/29/2010 06:38 PM, a wrote:
>
>         Greetings;
>         Would like to do fresh install to ubuntu 10.10 and as a
>         novelty transfer
>         my previously existing /home folder, e-mail, et al.
>         I have been contemplating those two schools of thought: save the
>         data,with loose the data and would like to try the former.
>         Is there any forthcoming person out there who has experience
>         with the
>         "save the data" method and with loading that data into a fresh
>         install?
>         Thank you all,you all.
>         a
>
>
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