to backup><div><br></div><div>rsync -vva ~/ <directory></div><div><br></div><div>mine is ></div><div><br></div><div>rsync -vva --exclude=.*mozilla* --exclude=.*chromium* ~/ bmike2@192.168.0.3:/home/bmike2/<br clear="all">
<div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Joseph Sinclair <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:plug-discussion@stcaz.net" target="_blank">plug-discussion@stcaz.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Unfortunately I have had a different experience; if I use the same username (typical) it copies the skeleton over the user dir, and everything that matches (most things in my case) gets wiped out.<br>
I learned that the hard way a couple times (fortunately I had backups all but the first time, long ago) before I learned to just backup and rename the homedir for safety, then copy over what I wanted/needed to keep after the upgrade.<br>
<br>
On 01/04/2013 05:35 PM, Dazed_75 wrote:<br>
> Interesting as I have done this many times without having the user wiped<br>
> out as long as I am staying in the same family (debian based versus fedora<br>
> which use a different base uid). Of course, I was always doing systems<br>
> which also had only 1 end user so I could count on the old and new uid to<br>
> be the same (1000 for debian derivatives or 500 for some others).<br>
><br>
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Joseph Sinclair<br>
> <<a href="mailto:plug-discussion@stcaz.net">plug-discussion@stcaz.net</a>>wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I would add, that you should rename the old user homedir to something else<br>
>> from single-user-mode before the install, otherwise the account creation<br>
>> during install will wipe out the existing user home directory.<br>
>> A good backup before starting is also *very* strongly advised.<br>
>><br>
>> On 01/04/2013 08:39 AM, Dazed_75 wrote:<br>
>>> If/when you tell the installer to mount sda6 as /home, be sure to use the<br>
>>> same file system type and if the is a check box for whether to format the<br>
>>> partition, be sure it remains UN-checked.<br>
>>><br>
>>> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Derek Trotter <<a href="mailto:expat.arizonan@gmail.com">expat.arizonan@gmail.com</a><br>
>>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> While you're installing kubuntu, choose to manually configure<br>
>>>> partitions. Either do nothing with /dev/sda6 or choose to mount it as<br>
>>>> /home.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I have one whole drive for my home directory. Everything else is<br>
>>>> installed on another drive. Recently I tried several distros. With<br>
>> each<br>
>>>> distro I chose the option to configure partitions myself instead of<br>
>> letting<br>
>>>> it do the job. I would either choose during the install to mount that<br>
>>>> drive as my home directory or do nothing with it during the install and<br>
>> add<br>
>>>> it to fstab later.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> On 01/04/2013 12:37 AM, <a href="mailto:joe@actionline.com">joe@actionline.com</a> wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> How can I do a fresh install of kubuntu on one of my systems that now<br>
>> has<br>
>>>> a corrupted pclinux installed, but protect the /home partition from<br>
>> being<br>
>>>> over-written? Can this be done safely?<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> 'df' shows the following:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> /dev/sda1 12G 5.7G 5.6G 51% /<br>
>>>> tmpfs 473M 0 473M 0% /dev/shm<br>
>>>> /dev/sda6 168G 23G 146G 14% /home<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------<br>
>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - <a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br>
>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br>
>> <a href="http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> --<br>
>>>> "I get my copy of the daily paper, look at the obituaries page, and if<br>
>> I�m not there, I carry on as usual."<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Patrick Moore<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------<br>
>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - <a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br>
>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br>
>>>> <a href="http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a><br>
>>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------<br>
>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - <a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br>
>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br>
>>> <a href="http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a><br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> ---------------------------------------------------<br>
>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - <a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br>
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br>
>> <a href="http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a><br>
>><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> ---------------------------------------------------<br>
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - <a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br>
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br>
> <a href="http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a><br>
<br>
<br>---------------------------------------------------<br>
PLUG-discuss mailing list - <a href="mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a><br>
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<br>
<a href="http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss" target="_blank">http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss</a><br></blockquote></div><br></div>