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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks Hilton<br>
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This will help me <br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Kind Regards
Nico Michael
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On 2012-11-03 15:06, Hilton Gibson wrote:<br>
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<div>I wrote this for students some time ago.</div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 3 November 2012 14:43, Nico
Michael(iBurst) <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:nick.michael@ptaisp.co.za" target="_blank">nick.michael@ptaisp.co.za</a>></span>
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I want to
re install my Ubuntu not upgrade it what is essential to
backup<br>
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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.<br>
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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<br>
upgrading it just gave me hassles with many things breaking<br>
( 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)<br>
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I have two partitions disk 0 mounted as /<br>
disk 1 mointed as
/data<br>
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When I re install Ubuntu I will format dsk 0 but preserve
my data on dsk 1<br>
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I used to manually backup using :<br>
sudo nautilus (or something like that) and open two panes
(like the good old Norton Commander)<br>
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I then wrote this shell script to backup key things to my
/data partition<br>
I cant remember what the -vp and -avrp do<br>
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#!/bin/bash<br>
# backup.sh<br>
sudo cp -avrp /home/nickm/.thunderbird/ /data/A_Backups/<br>
sudo cp -avrp /home/nickm/.mozilla/ /data/A_Backups/<br>
sudo cp -avrp /home/nickm/.Skype/ /data/A_Backups/<br>
sudo cp -avrp /home/nickm/.ssh/ /data/A_Backups/<br>
sudo cp -avrp /home/nickm/.xmind/ /data/A_Backups/<br>
sudo cp -avrp /home/nickm/.ssh/ /data/A_Backups/<br>
sudo cp -vp /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root /data/A_Backups/<br>
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What can I backup that I forgot to add to this script?
before I reinstall my unstable Ubuntu 1204<span
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Nico Michael<br>
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Nico Michael
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