Backup

[Valorie Zimmerman]

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On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 9:08 PM, Errol Sapir <errol at tzora.co.il> wrote:
> I want to thank all who gave advice on backing up using the terminal
> commands. My main use  of terminal has been for the very basic stuff such as
> "sudo apt-get install" etc. I have been a Linux (mainly Kubuntu) user for
> many years. I have used GUI programs to backup and for most of my
> operations. I work in a Microsoft environment so that was the natural way
> for me.
> Because I wanted to separate my data from my home all the advice given here
> was to use the command line method. I am grateful for the help and advice
> and am now enjoying the learning and the use of rsync. A new world of
> dealing with Linux is opening up and it isn't as difficult as I thought
> although I'm not sure I'll remember all the commands without a manual:-)
> Thanks again to all.
> Errol

By the way, I just thought I would mention that there is almost always
a manual built in for commandline applications. To call it up, you do
`man rsync` for instance. Sometimes there is also a help file, which
you can see by `rsync --help`.

> On 11/06/2016 02:02 AM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
>
> Hi Errol,
>
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 10:20 AM, 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?
> TIA
> Errol
>
> I've read the thread so far, with lots of good suggestions. Just a
> reminded that the old ~/.kde file has lots of data (sometimes) that
> you may not want to miss. For instance, Konversation used to store
> logs in there, and Amarok stored its database, playlists, podcast
> files, etc. So if you want to keep that stuff, dig into your
> ~/home/yourname/.kde file.
>
> These days, in Plasma 5 times, the config files go into ~/.config and
> ~/.local, and Konvi logs go into ~/.logs . Many of us are still
> running a few KDE4 applications though, such as Amarok.
>
> Good on you for doing your backups!
>
> Valorie