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Old 02-23-2006, 05:28 PM   #1
alaios
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Help me backup my system


Hi i want to backup my system and i am wondering how can i save the following..

1)All my mails (i use kmail) ...
2)How can i restore them in case of crash?
3)Firefox bookmarks
4)Konquerors bookmarks
5)Suggest me other stuff to back up plz
 
Old 02-23-2006, 06:22 PM   #2
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all this stuff should be in your home dir I usualy just tar it up for reinstalls or moving to a new computer something like this:
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cd /home
tar -czvf backup.tar.gz alaios/
then to restore your home dir just copy the file you made to /home/ and:
Code:
tar -xzvf backup.tar.gz
 
Old 02-23-2006, 06:33 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by johnson_steve
all this stuff should be in your home dir I usualy just tar it up
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If you can "tar" something in Linux, can you also "feather" it?
And--if we have "tarballs", can "hairballs" be far behind?

Sorry--I allow myself just a few stupid puns per day--LQ just happened to get in the line of fire.....
 
Old 02-24-2006, 02:39 AM   #4
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Thx a lot but if my pc is broken i dont know what files i should replace and which not
 
Old 02-24-2006, 03:09 AM   #5
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aren't you a senior memeber??? eh

you can back everything up using something like cpio or fbackup.
 
Old 02-24-2006, 09:47 AM   #6
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You can use the dump (don't know if it comes with all distrobutions) to backup. I have not tested to use it linux but "ufsdump in Solaris" that its quite simualr is quite good when you want to back up a filesystem.
 
  


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