On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 14:02, Greg Rundlett wrote: > I don't want to do a fresh install, because I'm not at all versed in > restoring all my personal data and preferences, and don't want to hassle > with it. I do have a backup of my data in case there are problems.
A nice backup to another disk is always helpful when trying to restore configuration files. A while ago I put together an 130G external USB disk from pieces at CompUSA. Essentially a USB 2.0 external enclosure case and the cheapest large disk they had on sale. Now I use the following script to backup my laptop every morning when I get into work: #!/bin/bash mount /EXTERNAL echo "Backing up /etc to /home/marc/Configs" sudo rsync --progress -av /etc/ /home/marc/Configs/ echo "Backing up /PHOTOS to /EXTERNAL/PHOTOS" sudo rsync --progress -av /PHOTOS /EXTERNAL/ echo "Backing up /home to /EXTERNAL/laptop-home" sudo rsync --progress -av /home /EXTERNAL/laptop-home/ echo "Backing up / to /EXTERNAL/laptop-rootpartition" sudo rsync --progress -av -x / /EXTERNAL/laptop-rootpartition umount /EXTERNAL It is a little redundant. Both /home and /PHOTOS are copied to their own directories on the external disk as well as a copy under laptop-rootpartition. And the contents of /etc is copied twice too. There are other tools (mostly rsync + scripts) to keep dated versions without taking up a lot of space or tools that try to be smarter (unison). But I find rsync does the job. When the disk gets filled, I'll just clean it out some of the transient ISOs that got backed up to the external disk. -marc -- Marc Nozell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.nozell.com/blog/ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
