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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>
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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>
<br>
Good luck Anthony.<br>
<br>
On 12/29/2010 09:23 PM, Rob Haag wrote:
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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>
wrote:<br>
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0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);
padding-left: 1ex;"> 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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204); padding-left: 1ex;"> 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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