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

[Eric Krieger]

Lifehacker has a bit one...

http://lifehacker.com/5154698/sync-files-and-folders-outside-your-my-dropbox-folder

Works flawlessly and whats best about using Dropbox + sympolic links, apart
from keeping everything in sync?   When something gets hosed just force the
restore from the Dropbox web interface.   :)

I can do a more in depth howto post holidays if there is interest.  But it's
pretty straight forward.

- Eric



On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:50 AM, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com> wrote:

>  It would be great to get the "how-to" on those Eric....!!
>
>
> On 12/30/2010 09:47 AM, Eric Krieger wrote:
>
> 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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