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

Sat Nov 3 17:58:57 UTC 2012

Hi Hilton
Thanks very much again

I have updated my backup shell script with what i learned from your site

One program I discovered when installing MintLinux is its came standard 
with is  APTonCD
Now i always install this with my Ubuntu as it allows me to make a 
backup CD or folder with all my installed DEB files

There are deb files i struggle to find and need to keep backups
  like my Sun(oracle) Java JDK and JREdeb files
As a developer I cant use the rubbishy Java  that Ubuntu distributes 
with their  Ubuntu
It is an Industry standard for all serious Java developers to use Sun 
Java,  just a pity "Uncle Mark" did not recognize that

Then someone will make comments in favor of the Java that I have to 
delete from my Ubuntu every time I install Ubuntu

Kind Regards

Nico Michael
http://www.arduino.org.za

On 2012-11-03 17:09, Hilton Gibson wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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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> JS Gericke Library
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> Stellenbosch University
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> Stellenbosch
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> South Africa
>
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Kind Regards

Nico Michael
http://www.arduino.org.za

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