live CD 7.04 - how to save settings between sessions?

[Scott Lockwood]

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 20:08 +0000, Florin Andrei wrote:
> I will install the stable 7.04 as soon as it comes out, but until then I
> am running the 7.04 live CD. I made a backup script like this...
> 
> ###############################################
> #!/bin/sh
> rm .mozilla/firefox/b4k2cpyh.default/Cache/*
> tar -czf home.tar.gz \
>         bin \
>         .evolution \
>         .mozilla \
>         .ssh \
>         .gnome2_private/Evolution \
>         backup.sh
> ###############################################
> 
> ...and I'm saving the settings on a USB Flash key.
> Firefox is saved pretty well. The problem is, in Evolution I need to
> recreate the account every time I boot the live CD again. Some settings
> are preserved, but not all and the account definitely needs to be
> created again.
> Also, would be nice to save Gnome panel applets, Gnome settings and
> stuff like that.
> 
> Should I just save the entire home directory?
> Is there a more elegant solution?
> 
> -- 
> Florin Andrei
> 
> http://florin.myip.org/
> 
> 

Hey, cool script!

I did the whole home dir backup-before-upgrade at first - worked like a
charm when going from 5.10 to 6.06, and then to 6.10. Both times I did a
whole new install. When you're ready to upgrade to 7.04 for real, you
may decide to do what I did this time instead, which was to use this: 

update-manager -c -d

Worked fine, and no ill effects so far. I did end up having to carefully
note which packages to reinstall, but that's very easy, as it will show
you a screen full of stuff it's going to uninstall, which you can just
copy into a file. Later, go through that file and install the latest
versions of all that stuff. Fini.

Note that I did still backup my home dir of course - I just ended up not
needing the backup when I was done. :-)

-- 
Regards,
Scott Lockwood