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><br>- Eric<br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:13 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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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><div><div></div><div class="h5">
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On 12/30/2010 02:40 AM, David Borton wrote:
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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>
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Good luck Anthony.<br>
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On 12/29/2010 09:23 PM, Rob Haag wrote:<br></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>