Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 09:02:46PM -0500 schrieb Dale: >> Howdy, >> >> What I'm not sure about is KDE config files. I googled and found out some >> I was pretty sure of already. Examples, .config, .local, and .kde4 but >> there could be others that need to be backed up as well. Anyone know if >> that is all of them or am I missing some? > I guess it depends on the applications you use. I think the directories you > mentioned have all you need. I looked at my laptop, whose user directory > harkens back to 2016. I still have ~/.kde (without any files) and ~/.kde4, > but the only files in there that are newer than at least 9 months is > .kde4/share/config/kdeglobals (modified 1 week ago, I probably changed some > keyboard shortcuts) and theme files from Breeze inside > .kde4/share/apps/color-schemes/. > > Look for yourself: >> find ~/.kde ~/.kde4 -mtime -180 > will tell you which files in there are newer than 180 days. Modify > parameters to your liking. >
At first, I just wanted to backup .<everything> but couldn't figure out how to get rsync to do that yet. I'm working on it tho. There should be a way. Still, at least I get back most everything with those. I skimmed the list and most programs I use just use the defaults so it can just be recreated or rarely use that software at all. I suspect a lot of them have been moved to .config anyway. Given the volume of data, I may have to start using tar and friends before long. Even split up, my backup drives are getting a bit full with direct copies. Someone else mentioned snapshots but I still need to research that. I need a month of good health to see if I can catch up on the things that need doing here. :/ Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
