backing up

[Scott Blair]

Space is not an issue. I have a 4Tb drive for backup and only used 250
Gig of it so far.
My idea of a backup is the less "reinstalling" you have to do the
better, Maybe I'm
wrong in thinking this way.
-- 

Scott Blair 

On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 22:07 -0500, Sajan Parikh wrote:

> On 09/26/2014 07:45 PM, NoOp wrote:
> > On 09/25/2014 02:14 PM, Sajan Parikh wrote:
> >> On 09/25/2014 12:51 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> >>> On 25 September 2014 19:48, Scott Blair <scott.blair at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> What directories should I include in my back up. I included all
> >>>> but proc and tmp files, when I went to restore it stopped when
> >>>> it hit the kernal restore.
> >>> As a general rule. everything in /home/$yourusername is good.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Going to disagree here.  While it's true that generally you don't need
> >> anything OUTSIDE of /home/$yourusername, I wouldn't backup EVERYTHING
> >> inside /home/$yourusername, you'll end up wasting a ton of backup space.
> >>
> >> Instead, go through the hidden folders, if they are for an application
> >> you want the configs backed up for, go for it.  If you don't need the
> >> configs, skip the folder.  If you use something like GMail or your own
> >> IMAP email server, backing up your whole Thunderbird profile will just
> >> be a waste of space and time.
> >>
> >> I think Steam also installs certain games inside your home folder as
> >> well, so definitely don't include those.
> >>
> >> The only things guaranteed you'll want to backup are
> >> /home/username/{Desktop|Documents|Music|Pictures} and any other folders
> >> you created.  I'd even exclude the Downloads folder as well.  If you
> >> want to save something you downloaded, get in the habit of moving it out
> >> of your Downloads folder.
> >>
> >> Sajan Parikh
> > I'd *highly* recommend going a bit further... example:
> >
> > $ ls -a /opt
> > .                                                H2
> > ..                                               java
> > Adobe                                            libreoffice4.3
> > BitDefender-scanner                              lightscribeApplications
> > calibre                                          MaSSHandra
> > dassault-systemes                                master-pdf-editor
> > epson-inkjet-printer-escpr                       openoffice4
> > epson-inkjet-printer-workforce-635-nx625-series  Opticks
> > epson-pc-fax                                     seamonkey
> > extras.ubuntu.com                                vmware
> > ffmpeg                                           XnConvert
> > google                                           y
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> By no means did I mean you should only do things in /home, however most 
> of the things you have in /opt are the applications themselves, which in 
> most cases can be reinstalled on any new system.  Even with the things 
> you've shown there, most of the important stuff specific to your user 
> like profiles, settings, history will be in /home/user...if it is done 
> correctly.  This is sort of the point for /home, so that each user is 
> quite portable and contained only to their /home directories.
> 
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