I highly recommend to keep all configs under source code control like CVS or subversion. Just a side note.
I like your plan on what to back up. I think that you will be fine. If you feel extremely cautious, just buy yourself another hard drive and keep the old hard drive. i On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Karl Cunningham <ka...@keckec.com> wrote: > I am working on an emc2 2.4 system that was installed with Ubuntu 10.04, > but a distribution upgrade to 10.10 was done by mistake about 6 months > ago. Emc2 is working fine but updates are not since 10.10 isn't > supported in the linuxcnc.org repository. > > I plan to reinstall. I'll do a complete backup of the file system first, > and I can handle settings like host name, user names, passwords, etc. My > plan is to restore the home directory from backup after reinstalling. > > Is there anything else that would need to be restored, assuming this is > probably a pretty plain vanilla installation? > > My reasons for the reinstall are 1) To get updates to work again, 2) Any > kernel updates will require setting grub to use the RT kernel, 3) In the > future this machine may be administered by people with little Linux > experience and I'd like updates to go as smoothly as possible. > > Thanks for any advice. > > Karl > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content > authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image > Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
