[ubuntu-za] Preparing for Hardy

[Bill Cairns]

Actually I did the upgrade to Gutsy with no problems at all. My reason for
doing a new install is that I want to get away from my dual boot with Vista
and rather use VirtualBox and XP to run those few Windows applications that
I still can't get away from. Any advice on VirtualBox would be appreciated.

But I still have to get the hardy disk and am a bit far away still from
doing the upgrade!

I think that I have figures out how to do my tar backup:

tar cvpzf backup.tgz --exclude=/home/bill/.Trash
--exclude=/home/bill/.thumbnails --exclude=/home/bill/Pictures
--exclude=/home/bill/Documents/PrivateStuff --exclude=/home/bill/backup.tgz
/home/bill

I am excluding a lot of stuff that I already have backed up on other
machines and which are pretty large! That gives me a 600+ MByte backup file
to take to the new configuration.

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Vijay Makanjee <vijay at ergo.co.za> wrote:

>  good luch bill
>
> Keep us posted. I am also going to try this - but in a short while yet.
> But the last install / upgrade to Gutsy meant a new install as the update
> did not work.
>
> Vijay
> Bill Cairns wrote:
>
> As I prepare for my hardy install (I have decided to install from scratch
> this time round and not to update) I need to back up my home directory (I
> think that i can manage that with tar unless there are better suggestions)
> and also some other bits and pieces. Right now I can think of: Open Office
> dictionary, Evolution archives and Contacts. It is not obvious to me where I
> find these - are they just in the hidden ".evolution" and ".openoffice.org2"
> folders?
>
> Besides these is there anything else that I am forgetting? I am not too
> concerned about configuration files as I can always do them from scratch - I
> think!
>
> Thanks,
>   Bill
>
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