[ubuntu-uk] backup home folder

[Alan Pope]

On 16 September 2010 10:24, Tyler J. Wagner <tyler at tolaris.com> wrote:
> Which distro installers support this?

It's a feature of Ubiquity. I do not know if the alternate CD also has
the feature because I've not tried it recently.

> They actually "rm -rf" those directories
> first?

Yes.

> If so, this is indeed an excellent feature. The last Ubuntu installer I
> used only specified format or not, and didn't say anything about clearing the
> directories first.

It doesn't say anything about it in the installer which is why most
people don't know about it. But I think it's been in Ubuntu for at
least 3 releases.

> What I don't want is existing, non-conflicting older files to
> be left there.

Nothing is left, the entire filesystem (bar /home) is cleaned.

Cheers,
Al.