Backup and move to another PC

W Scott Lockwood III vladinator at gmail.com
Mon Aug 3 18:26:48 UTC 2015


On 8/3/2015 1:21 PM, s_s_shahin at fastmail.fm wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I need to move my Ubuntu to another PC, how do I do that?
>
>
> Thanks.
Do you really need to move the system, or do you just want to keep 
everything in your home directory? There are a lot of ways to do this, 
and your question was a little vague, but:

I would backup /home/<user>/ to somewhere, and then reinstall Ubuntu on 
the new system, restoring your backup there. Things I would take note of 
first:
The UID of the user
The packages installed (dpkg -l | grep ^ii >>proglist)

Make sure the UID is the same on the new system, and the package list 
can be used to make sure you get all of the same software installed.




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