[ubuntu-za] I want to re install my Ubuntu not upgrade it what is essential to backup

[Hilton Gibson]

Hi Nico

I wrote this for students some time ago.
http://ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/ReInstall

Cheers

hg


On 3 November 2012 14:43, Nico Michael(iBurst) <nick.michael at ptaisp.co.za>wrote:

> I want to re install my Ubuntu not upgrade it  what is essential to backup
>
> My ubuntu is so unstable that I was considering replacing it with Mint
> Linux but decided that the new Ubuntu is worth the risk of having to do
> this in the future.
>
> Fixing my ubuntu or upgrading it is not an option I want a clean working
> machine again hopefully this will be a better experience than the Nasty
> Narwhal was
> upgrading it just gave me hassles with many things breaking
> ( I could not print , my cups broke, my wifi broke my backup program broke
>  and then my iBurst also broke and that was the cherry on the top)
>
>
> I have two partitions  disk 0 mounted as /
>                                       disk 1 mointed as /data
>
> When I re install Ubuntu I will format dsk 0  but preserve my data on dsk 1
>
> I used to manually backup using :
> sudo nautilus  (or something like that) and open two panes (like the good
> old Norton Commander)
>
> I then wrote this shell script to backup key things to my /data partition
> I cant remember what the -vp and -avrp do
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # backup.sh
> sudo cp -avrp /home/nickm/.thunderbird/ /data/A_Backups/
> sudo cp -avrp /home/nickm/.mozilla/ /data/A_Backups/
> sudo cp -avrp /home/nickm/.Skype/ /data/A_Backups/
> sudo cp -avrp /home/nickm/.ssh/ /data/A_Backups/
> sudo cp -avrp /home/nickm/.xmind/ /data/A_Backups/
> sudo cp -avrp /home/nickm/.ssh/ /data/A_Backups/
> sudo cp -vp /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root /data/A_Backups/
>
>
>
> What can I backup that I forgot to add to this script? before I reinstall
> my unstable Ubuntu 1204
>
>
> --
>
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Nico Michael
> http://www.arduino.org.za
>
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