Phil: Yes, we do tend to have very different hardware setups among ourselves. I am particularly notorious for that sort of thing.
Your comment about having a separate partition for "/home" brings to mind a question whose answer I have long pondered, and could possibly allow me to try that again (it's been years). Say, you have a machine with a Lubuntu (LXDE), Ubuntu (GDE/Unity), Ubuntu-Studio (XFCE), and Kubuntu (KDE) system on it (in separate partitions). And say, on that machine, you have a single, separate partition whose mount-point is "/home" in each of the system partitions. Are the (hidden) configuration files used by the differing system components in the various desktop environments, separate enough, that you could actually run the various 'flavors' of Ubuntu using the same "/home" partition? That could be very useful for me, if it could work. The fact that login screens offer you a choice of desktop environments, suggests that the above might be feasible. My long experience has led be to be doubtful of even copying the configuration (hidden) files from an earlier system, to a newer-level, just-installed system. Yet, on an upgrade, that is what you get. But also, in the upgrade process, I have seen text saying that configuration files have been "moved out of the way" (probably renamed). Anyway, I am keenly interested in the answer to this question. -- Thanks, Aere -----Original Message----- From: Phill Whiteside <[email protected]> To: Aere Greenway <[email protected]> Cc: John Hupp <[email protected]>, [email protected] Subject: Re: [Lubuntu] Recommended online backup services (or those to avoid)? Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:39:27 +0000 Hi, we all have our prefered method of backing up. It depends on the person, what equipment they have along with what they can externally access. This is not a 'fault' of lubuntu... it is 'fault' of you mad people have all sorts of different systems :) Look through the (many) various options of backing up..... Then choose the one best for you. As a starter pack, I always suggest that you have a /home partition[1] Regards, Phill. 1. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving On 29 December 2012 21:47, Aere Greenway <[email protected]> wrote: John: One important thing to take note of in my earlier reply, is that for most backups, I don't use online services. I noticed (later) that you were asking about online services. I use an external hard-drive (Seagate, USB, 300 Gig), that I plug into a USB 2.0 port. Using that method, you do need to be very meticulous about unmounting your drive before removing it.
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