Ok Jim, Since it mostly simple use case. You just need to copy your home directory.
I recommend rsync -avzh /home/<username> <location your copying to> Below I only recommend if you have solid understanding of uids, guids, groups, and shadow file. If not, you can just backup your data with above. ____________ You can copy the lines from files passwd, group , gshadow and shadow in /etc/ that match your your username. You can later use those lines to build your user on new installation, by adding those lines to their corresponding files, adjusting uid and guid or adding groups as needed. On Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 10:43 PM jim karlock <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank to you and several other responders for your advice. > > I am very inexperienced with Linux and this machine is used ONLY for web > browsing and occasional writing, > .There is nothing complex being done. > > As to the old version, I was planning on just clicking the upgrade offer > that appears on the shutdown screen which mentions 16.xx. I'll see if that > ends up offering a later version of LTS. > > Thanks for helping. > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 10:30 PM Vince Winter <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Jim, > > > > Do you run virtual machines or containers at all? > > > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 3:04 PM elcaset <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Is there a reason why you're upgrading to such an old version of > Ubuntu? > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 4:15 AM jim karlock <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > I want to be sure no files are lost if something goes wrong when up > > > grading > > > > Ubuntu 14 to 16 both LTS. > > > > > > > > Is copying ALL of the Home directory to an SD card sufficient to > > capture > > > al > > > > of the files that I have created or downloaded? > > > > I have no expectation of an SD card being OK for the long term, this > is > > > > just for the duration of the upgrade process. > > > > > > > > thanks > > > > JK > > > > > > > > > >
