On 28/06/2017 14:14, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote:
The main reason for doing backups is in case my system goes bang I can
restore it. In the past I have been lucky when I have reinstalled
kubuntu 'over' the old version. When I rebuilt the other computer
from XP to kubuntu, even though I had backed it up, I discovered that
not everything got backed up - like my firefox bookmarks.
When I have reinstalled Thunderbird it is not a trivial task to
recover emails from the backup.
I use freefilesync for backing up to a USB hard drive, and am thinking
about the things I have to do to prepare for the backup.
1. Empty the caches for the browsers.
2. backup/export the browser bookmarks (except for Chrome)
3. Gramps Genealogy program is all right, but I should do a backup of
it in case a restore has an updated version.
4. Do I need to export all my emails from Thunderbird? or is this only
necessary if they are collected via Pop3 and not via imap?
5. Can I build a script to do this for me?
6. Anything else?
Hi,
I've been using the following to backup /home to a NAS for a while now.
Most of the junk files are stripped out then rsync is used to
incremently copy across any new/modified files whilst any deleted files
on the source are also removed from the backup.
# Cleanup unnecessary files
exec rm -rf home/weaner/.cache/chromium
exec rm -rf home/weaner/.thumbnails
exec rm -rf home/weaner/.local/share/Trash
exec rm -rf home/weaner/.cache/thumbnails
# Backup to NAS
rsync -ua --delete /home/weaner path/to/backup
I'd added the above to i3/config so it ran everytime I logged into the
PC but it could just as easily be used anywhere else.
Cheers,
Dean
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