restoring backup

[David Fletcher]

On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 11:02 +0200, roberto wrote:
> Hello, i did a backup of my home data when i was using debian and
> backup2l utility.
> 
> Now i'd like to restore everything onto my new laptop with ubuntu
> 11.04. Is it possible ? I think ubuntu can properly restore data from
> that standard format (.tar.gz).
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> -- 
> roberto
> 

I've done this several times, but I do it all manually from a tar.gz
file that is created from a script I wrote.

Do you also have /etc/ in your backup? If you do, you can also restore
the user accounts and passwords.

Basically, reinstate the user accounts then copy the contents of /home/
from the extracted tar file to /home/ on your new computer. You might
need to do
sudo chown -R user:user /home/user

on your restored directories to get it to work properly.

I have to go out now. If you want more detail about what I do,
especially restoring the user accounts and passwords, ask me later.

Dave