** PeterMerchant via dorset <[email protected]> [2017-06-28 14:14]: > 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? ** end quote [PeterMerchant via dorset]
I'm assuming that you don't backup the Chrome bookmarks because they sync to Google's servers and will pull back down when you link your account back up. You can actually do the same with Firefox using Firefox Sync, which is built into the browser. It can sync your open tabs (quite handy if you use multiple machines regularly, I'm forever using it to track down something I was looking at), passwords, history, add-ons and preferences if you want to. I had a little bit of fun with the add-ons sync recently when I was trying out Passifox to link Keepassxc to give me access to my passwords. I had been using Keepass2 under Mono with Keefox up until then. It worked quite nicely, but the sync'ing of the add-ons aligned them on my Windows boot where I was still using Keefox; which I fixed forgetting that it would sync the change back to my Linux machines! I'm actually back to Keefox for the moment though, as Passifox isn't compatible with the new Firefox Multiprocess feature, which reduces memory usage quite noticeably. Performance is slightly better too; both still walking all over Chrome (on my setups it is, I'm not passing judgement on anyone else's experience before all the Chrome fans reply with contradicting experiences!). -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | https://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 Vice Chair, FSB Portsmouth & SE Hampshire Branch | http://www.fsb.org.uk/ ============================================================================= Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Ralls House, Parklands Business Park, Forrest Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6XP -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2017-07-04 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:[email protected] / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
