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

[Eric Krieger]

It may not be everyone's cup of tea but Dropbox + Symbolic links can be
amazing for keeping data synced across systems or installing a new system.

- Eric



On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:13 AM, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com> wrote:

>  There are tutorials on the web about this, some say it's "3 easy steps"
> but I have tried a full migration and it is torturous! I had all kinds of
> permission problems, probably due to the user names, and had to go file by
> file and change the permissions of every file in my home directory-couldn't
> do it recursively for some reason nor with the gnome properties GUI. I also
> tried saving all of my packages as a list and then installing them in the
> new install-didn't work.
> OS X has a good migration assistant and it would be nice if Linux did too.
> You could use dd to back up your entire ubuntu partition to a remote drive
> and then if there were a nice migration assistant use that to transfer all
> your data to the new install.....
>
> On 12/30/2010 02:40 AM, David Borton wrote:
>
> 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:
>
>
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