On Wednesday, 6 April 2022 02:02:46 -00 Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > As some know, I've rearranged some hard drives and data recently. Got > the data moved into the new places. Given those changes, I'm also > having to adjust my backups as well. Before, I just backed up > /home/dale and told rsync to exclude a few large directories that needed > to be stored on other drives. I reversed for the other drive. Anyway, > I'm splitting things up differently now. 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 already have .mozilla backed up locally. That takes care of my web > browsers, Seamonkey and Firefox which includes emails.
This may not be of much use to you now, Dale, but the way I do this dates back to the '80s or '90s when I didn't know which distro to settle on. I created a ~/common directory on its own partition, which could be mounted under my home directory in whichever flavour I was running at the time. In that way, all the big, general stuff was under ~/common and the specific stuff to me was under ~/ . Thus, KMail, for instance, was set up to work with the right version of KDE. There was a minimum of conflict between OSs. The backups were simplified as a bonus, which is the main reason why I've stuck with this arrangement, and /etc/fstab was easily arranged to accommodate what I wanted. As I said, it may be too late for you to think along these lines, but I hope someone might be interested. It's certainly saved me an awful lot of errors when reinstalling things. -- Regards, Peter.
