Version control for the win. I'm a huge believer in "git", but there are others that will work fine, especially for single user stuff.
You can also use something like Clonezilla to make an image of the existing drive, which can be restored if disaster strikes. -Pete On 06/21/2011 11:04 AM, Igor Chudov wrote: > 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
