PS: When upgrading/reinstalling across several major versions I used to make a backup of my home folder as follows:<div> <b>mv /home/hilton /home/hilton-10.10</b></div><div>Then I would create a clean home folder and add my file permissins to it as follows:</div>
<div> <b>mkdir /home/hilton</b></div><div> <b>chown hilton.hilton /home/hilton</b></div><div>Then I would login with the new home folder and copy from the old folder, all my data.</div><div>After a while I would remove the old folder.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>
<br></div><div>hg</div><div><br><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 November 2012 15:06, Hilton Gibson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hilton.gibson@gmail.com" target="_blank">hilton.gibson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Nico<div><br></div><div>I wrote this for students some time ago.</div><div><a href="http://ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/ReInstall" target="_blank">http://ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/ReInstall</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div>
<div><br></div><div>hg</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 November 2012 14:43, Nico Michael(iBurst) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.michael@ptaisp.co.za" target="_blank">nick.michael@ptaisp.co.za</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .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><font color="#888888"><br>
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Kind Regards<br>
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Nico Michael<br>
<a href="http://www.arduino.org.za" target="_blank">http://www.arduino.org.za</a><br>
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