restore with rsync or fix window manager

[Michael Havens]

really? So are you saying that with ubuntu you do not need to have a home
partition?

I did not backup my config files. I only backed-up ~/Documents .
I am considering this as my backup strategy:

 rsync -auq --exclude --delete-excluded (on first run) ~/Pictures/*
--exclude --delete-excluded (on first run) ~/Documents/*
/media/bmike1/<tba>/Settings
rsync -auq --include ~/Pictures /media/bmike1/<tba>/Pictures
rsync -auq --include ~/Documents /media/bmike1/<tba>/Documents

everything except pictures probably will most likely not require much room
so likely I will put them together on one drive.
so I did verify that the problem is my user as I created another account
and logged in and everything is fine

As for your comment to backup my current data there is no need to because
since everything has gone bonkers I haven't created any new files. So after
my fresh install  I'll restore my files with:

rsync -aWq /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk /home/bmike1/Documents

and everything should be fine.

Here is something weird that happened: I was  working on my computer and
had a glass of wine. I then went to bed and woke at like 2AM. After waking
I went into the computer room and had no internet. I went back to bed at
this point to wake at 6 to find I still had no internet. So I called Cox to
hear the familiar 'we don't support Linux but everything is fine on our
end.'  So I restart the computer and internet was back.

On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 11:26 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

> I hope you haven't overwritten your files yet.  If you aren't backing up
> and restoring any config files then you aren't going be to restoring
> anything that will fix your machine at all.  All you'll be doing is writing
> older versions of your files possibly loosing data.  If you are backing up
> configuration files, I would restore only those for now.
>
> I would actually recommend that you backup (not restore) all your current
> data and then reinstall from scratch including starting fresh with new
> config files.  That way any weird situations you have going on with your
> package dependencies will be eliminated.
>
> Then start your regular dist-upgrades, making sure to look over any files
> it says it's going to remove for anything that looks necessary to the
> system.
>
> If it is a user level configuration problem, you can check that by
> creating a new user account and logging in with it.  If everything is fine,
> then you know you have something to fix with your account.  If it still
> broken, then look at the system itself and your user profile is probably
> fine.
>
> If your user profile is fine, a little piece of trivia that you might not
> already know is that when you do a fresh install of an Ubuntu system over
> an existing install, but you uncheck the format option on the partition
> that the system is going to be installed to, it will delete everything
> except for the /home directory leaving your user account(s) intact.  It
> will even try and reinstall as much of the programs that you already had
> installed so that the system will be back to where you left it, only
> hopefully working this time.  I've only done it a couple of times, but it's
> worked well for me both times.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
>
> On 01/09/2016 07:30 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>> I was just going to enter the rsync text
>> ('rsync -aWq /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk /home/bmike1/Documents')
>> into a terminal ((I verified this goof only affects this user) when I
>> realized I wasn't sure I had all of the nuances and I wanted to make
>> sure I got it down right before I really screwed tings up. First: Here
>> is the directory and file of the backup:
>>
>> bmike1 at MikesBeast ~ $ ls  /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk
>> Documents
>>
>> Second: the rsync manpage talks about the trailing slash changing the
>> behavior of the way it copies. I don't understand.
>>
>> 'rsync -aWuq --delete-before /home/bmike1/Documents
>> /media/bmike1/RedSanDisk'
>>
>> seems to copy it the way I want. Does the slash affect the way it copies
>> it back. Or else what does it do?
>>
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