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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.<br>
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<span class="moz-smiley-s1"><span>:-)</span></span><br>
Thanks again to all.<br>
Errol<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/06/2016 02:02 AM, Valorie
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<pre wrap="">Hi Errol,
On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Errol Sapir <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:errol@tzora.co.il"><errol@tzora.co.il></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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
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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
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