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I'm going to read a Linux mag article of RAID,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7924?hq_e=el&hq_m=1150145&hq_l=4&hq_v=0f261f9901">http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7924?hq_e=el&hq_m=1150145&hq_l=4&hq_v=0f261f9901</a><br>
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and thought that I may consider that option if it has merit. Are you
going to give the tutorial NIck?<span class="moz-smiley-s1"><span>
:-) </span></span><br>
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Backup, backup.......<br>
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Brian<br>
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On 01/05/2011 08:37 AM, Nick Frost wrote:
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cite="mid:265F9F85-897C-4D2B-B971-2EF24391DF8A@frostitute.com"
type="cite">On Jan 5, 2011, at 6:04 AM, a wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Brian;
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Allow me to answer for Anthony,that BoBo,an aspersion not to be
taken
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personally.
<br>
He probably should have copied /home to usb drive using. cp -dpr
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sourcedirectory destinationdirectory.
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a friend.
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Anthony;
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Hmmm. Boy, I'm sure sorry about that (data loss). I reviewed my
2 cents posted on Dec. 30, 2010 to be sure the "back up up your
home directory in its entirety (rsync, tar, etc.)" was suggested.
<br>
<br>
Looking to the future: since we've been speaking of disk cloning
here on NMLUG, that's a great way to ensure one has an entire
backup of a system before reinstall (if one has two drives of
equal capacity or a second destination drive to copy to of
greater capacity).
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Another good trick for the future is to use RAID-1 (two drives,
synced) and then add, sync and remove a third RAID-1 member before
doing the reinstall There are means of converting single drive
installs to RAID-1.
<br>
<br>
-Nick
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On Dec 30, 2010, at 12:52 AM, Nick Frost wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">On Dec 29, 2010, at 8:45 PM, David Borton
wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">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.
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("would likely screw up your login") unless you exclude all dot
files ".". Typically mail folders are in ~mail and/or
.thunderbird or .mozilla-thunderbird, etc. It's the .gnome,
.gconf, .gcon2, and that sort of stuff that may cause issues if
you restore those "." directories from and older install to a
newer one.
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So, you could simply back up your home directory in its entirety
(rsync, tar, etc.), install a new Ubuntu and manually migrate
your data back. Thunderbird email is easy to restore.
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7 Avenida Vista Grande #325
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Santa Fe, NM 87508
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