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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:
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cite="mid:AANLkTin_R3+gRqaqN=-F3z5KCAcyoy5GVJiwDa7RzK-C@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Hi, I'm new to the list but an experienced Ubuntu
user...
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<div>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.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:45 PM, David
Borton <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:dave@famjam.net">dave@famjam.net</a>></span>
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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.<br>
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-david</font>
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On 12/29/2010 06:38 PM, a wrote:<br>
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Greetings;<br>
Would like to do fresh install to ubuntu 10.10 and as
a novelty transfer<br>
my previously existing /home folder, e-mail, et al.<br>
I have been contemplating those two schools of
thought: save the<br>
data,with loose the data and would like to try the
former.<br>
Is there any forthcoming person out there who has
experience with the<br>
"save the data" method and with loading that data into
a fresh install?<br>
Thank you all,you all.<br>
a<br>
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