restore with rsync or fix window manager

[Michael Havens]

Re: restore with rsync or fix window manager
<http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=213477&p=1114271#p1114259>

bmike1 wrote: ubuntu-drivers devices returned an empty set!

bmike1 at MikesBeast ~ $ ubuntu-drivers devices
bmike1 at MikesBeast ~ $ sudo ubuntu-drivers devices
[sudo] password for bmike1:
bmike1 at MikesBeast ~ $


I don't understand that. You should have gotten something like this:
dan at skynet1 ~ $ ubuntu-drivers devices
== /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0 ==
modalias : pci:v00001002d00009640sv00001458sd0000D000bc03sc00i00
model : BeaverCreek [Radeon HD 6550D]
vendor : Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
driver : fglrx-updates - distro non-free
driver : fglrx - distro non-free
driver : xserver-xorg-video-ati - distro free builtin recommended

So I am thinking I can reformat ~/home too because the settings that are
screwing me up are not preserved because (thankfully) I was only backing up
the Documents directory instead of ALL of /home . Right? I was
wondering.... with rsync can you select what you restore? If not What I
could do is:
 rsync -auq --exclude --delete-excluded (on first run) ~/Pictures/*
--exclude --delete-excluded (on first run) ~/Documents/*
/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/
rsync -auq --include ~/Pictures /media/bmike1/<tba>/Pictures
rsync -auq --include ~/Documents /media/bmike1/<tba>/Documents

the everything except documents and pictures rsync will most likely not
require much room.

On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just ran the dist-upgrade and noticed a line it spit out:
>
>    grub installed for i386 system
>
> Huh? This computer is 64 it.
>
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> that sounds like good advice! it makes a lot of sense. So then.... I will
>> no longer do apt-get install upgade but only dist-upgrade.
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The packages on your system were already in a bad state when I
>>> recommended you do that.  While the dist-upgrade might have lead to some of
>>> your computers symptoms, it was not the ultimate cause of your problems.
>>> One thing that could happen with a dist-upgrade that won't happen with a
>>> plain upgrade in that it can remove (and add) packages in order to make
>>> your system completely up to date.  You shouldn't ever have a problem, but
>>> under very rare circumstances, the system will try to uninstall important
>>> packages that make your system run.  Usually after you've done something
>>> weird to your system, or when you've installed someone's PPA who doesn't
>>> know what they are doing with dependencies.
>>> I'd suggest that you need to run dist-upgrade more often, not less or
>>> not at all.  On all my systems, I ONLY do dist-upgrade, I can't even
>>> remember the last time I did a simple upgrade.  Running it more often will
>>> keep your system more up to date and put all the necessary packages on your
>>> system for the software to work correctly rather than putting a subset of
>>> packages that will leave your system more and more out of date.
>>>
>>> Think about it this way.  A piece of software has a security problem or
>>> wants to add features and the fix is to add in a new library that does
>>> something that fixes the problem.  If you just do an upgrade then apt will
>>> not upgrade that piece of software at all because it would require it to
>>> also install an additional package{s).  Now if there are other pieces of
>>> software that say they want a certain version of the first program in order
>>> to satisfy their dependencies those also won't get upgraded.  Do this over
>>> and over and before too long you have system where your desktop is in a
>>> very strange state where it up to date in some places and out of date in
>>> others.
>>>
>>> It's best just to keep it completely up to date in the first place with
>>> dist-upgrade.
>>>
>>> Brian Cluff
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01/09/2016 04:49 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>>
>>> You were oh so right Brian. I had changed the window manager in / home.
>>> Now whenever I restore root nothing is fixed. I will NEVER do a
>>> dist-upgrade again. Everytime I have my system crashes! Now I am trying to
>>> restore my home directory which was created with rsync. The exact command
>>> was:
>>>
>>> rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents
>>> /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk
>>>
>>> What would the command be to restore My home directory. I figure it is
>>> easier to restore home (which I had just recently update) than to fix the
>>> window manager.
>>>
>>> --
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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