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

[Hilton Gibson]

PS: When upgrading/reinstalling across several major versions I used to
make a backup of my home folder as follows:
 *mv /home/hilton /home/hilton-10.10*
Then I would create a clean home folder and add my file permissins to it as
follows:
 *mkdir /home/hilton*
 *chown hilton.hilton /home/hilton*
Then I would login with the new home folder and copy from the old folder,
all my data.
After a while I would remove the old folder.

However from 12.04 to 12.10 to 13.04 with Unity this has not been required,
perhaps this is the vision Mark is aiming for - a stable, standardised user
interface.

Cheers

hg




On 3 November 2012 15:06, Hilton Gibson <hilton.gibson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Room 1025D
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Private Bag X5036
Stellenbosch
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South Africa

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