Backup

[Jerry Lapham]

On Thursday, November 03, 2016 05:42:08 AM Errol Sapir wrote:
> Data is anything I have created or copied. Documents, photos, email and
> address books, etc. Even uninstalled programs can be considered data (but
> aren't essential for my backup). Basically, as I wrote, I am trying to
> configure my /home from the beginning without the previous setup
> definitions. From what I understand, Amaury's suggestion looks good (and
> maybe there are others) and I will try it over the weekend. Thanks
> Errol
> 
> On 11/02/2016 07:42 PM, bmarsh at bmarsh.com wrote:
> 
> On Nov 2, 2016, at 1:20 PM, Errol Sapir <errol at tzora.co.il> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> I have a very basic question about backup. I want to backup my /home drive
> which is on a separate partition. However I ONLY want to backup data and
> not any setup files or  attachments. The reason for all this is I want to
> set up my /home partition from scratch without kubuntu using previous
> definitions. So I need a way of backing up only data, ALL my data (and of
> course restoring it). Is there a way of doing this?
> Define "data".    Too broad a scope in my view.

You could also try what I do.  I have a separate very large /DATA partition 
which holds documents, downloads, pictures, music, etc.  Home is included with 
the rest of the  / partition.

Currently I'm running Kubuntu 14.04 LTS.  When the problem reports from 16.04 
LTS appear to have died down and I get around to it, I'll clone my 14.04 
partition and run the upgrade to 16.04 on the clone.  If I have a problem with 
16.04, I can just boot the original 14.04 partition.  DATA is accessible from 
either one.

	-Jerry
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