Jason Greenwood wrote:
Ummm, I think using a GUI might be a tad easier for a newbie Chris. =)
I would backup all of /etc and also all of my Home Directory. Most important stuff is then backed up at that point. You can use a floppy and drag n drop using Konqueror (graphical file manager) or you can burn to CD using K3B (Graphical CD/DVD Burner).
Hope that helps.
Cheers
Jason
Another tip: Most configuration files are found in "~/.<progname>". For a backup just copy that file/folder onto a disk. The only program I know of that does not follow this convention is firefox. There it is "~/.mozilla/firefox". ".*"-files are hidden. Use "View->Show hidden files" in konqueror to see them.
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
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.
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