Adriano Varoli Piazza wrote:
2006/2/10, Rosemary McGillicuddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
As a side note, it's probably a good idea to copy your entire /home
folder to an alternate location for safe storage. backups are all fine
and well, but when you're trying to retrieve a one or two files, having
a regular copy is always a fast method.
Again - how is this done please?
The easy way:
. open your root folder in nautilus / konqueror / the file manager of
your choice.
see bottom for further info about this spot in this process.
This means: open the / folder, you should see inside it
(at least) a folder called /home. This is your home folder, it
contains the personal data for your users
. copy the home folder somewhere else (a different disc or partition), OR
. make a cd / dvd out of it. This might not be possible if the size of
the folder is too much (e.g. the folder weighs more than can fit on a
dvd)
This depends of course on having a place with enough free space to put
the stuff.
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since in the default install with normal file permissions, you won't be
able to copy enter or read other users /home/~, you might ought to start
off with opening a text console (a.k.a. 'term'), type 'su' (without the
quotes) it will ask for a password, give it the root users password and
then (also without the quotes) type "konqueror". this will give you a
konqueror file manager window with root permissions, able to read and
write to anywhere root could write to.
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