Lifehacker has a bit one... <br><br><a href="http://lifehacker.com/5154698/sync-files-and-folders-outside-your-my-dropbox-folder">http://lifehacker.com/5154698/sync-files-and-folders-outside-your-my-dropbox-folder</a><br><br>
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. :) <br><br>I can do a more in depth howto post holidays if there is interest. But it's pretty straight forward. <br>
<br>- Eric <br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:50 AM, BrianO'Keefe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com">okeefe@cybermesa.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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It would be great to get the "how-to" on those Eric....!!<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 12/30/2010 09:47 AM, Eric Krieger wrote:
</div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div class="h5">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. <br>
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- Eric<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:13 AM,
BrianO'Keefe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com" target="_blank">okeefe@cybermesa.com</a>></span>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> 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.<br>
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..... <br>
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On 12/30/2010 02:40 AM, David Borton wrote:
<blockquote type="cite"> Good points- <br>
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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 <br>
don't assume that everything worth keeping is in the
home directory ~; think databases, web sites, ...<br>
<br>
Good luck Anthony.<br>
<br>
On 12/29/2010 09:23 PM, Rob Haag wrote:<br>
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