On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:42, Lindsay wrote: > I have been using Ubuntu Warty for about 10-12 days now. > > I have set up Evolution email, and GAIM with some personal settings and > contacts. There maybe one or two other things that I have configured > for personal choice as well. > > Now what I want to do is save this data. I do not know the first thing > about how to do this - whether CD or floppy would be best and what > procedure to follow. I dont want to read a 64kb page on a website > giving such instructions because of time constraints. All I want is a > simple ABC of say doing this on a CD, whether the CD has to be a special > format, whether more than I think needs to be backed up, and how to go > about this. I.m not not wanting a diploma course. Put floppy in drive find ~ | cpio --create > /dev/fd0
Good until you have more content in your home directory than the floppy will hold, when you will need a CD-rw and the cdrecord program. man cpio for all the gore. If you have put any configuration changes in places other than your home dir you are SOL without going on the "diploma course" which you will discover at:- man find have fun. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell.
