I am not sure if I need to make a clone of my os and reinstall my os or just copy home?

wpeckham · 02-12-2024, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by linux-man

What language did you use to script it?

Bash

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Why didn't you script it in a way that would accommodate a few of your treasured features/special packages?

Because they exist as source code under my home folder or as packages in the repositories and it makes no sense to duplicate the repo and expand the size of my backups for no good reason.

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Not that I am aware of, I am inspired by contingency.

Ouch! Sorry to hear/read that. A cloned image (clonezilla image) or backup from when your system was clean and working would have been WAY handy now.

enigma9o7 · 02-12-2024, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by linux-man

Is there a way to tell whether my setup does or doesn't contain programs I installed within home or not?

If you can't remember if you ever put any programs in your home dir, why not look?

linux-man · 02-13-2024, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by enigma9o7

If you can't remember if you ever put any programs in your home dir, why not look?

I took a look and there appears to be a few programs in home dir, what is likelihood of there being more elsewhere outside /home?

It's mentioned (below) there could be data folders outside of /home, beyond /home is root. Am looking for a folder literally labelled data folder there?

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Originally Posted by rclark

Just rsync all your data folders (if outside of /home) and /home to one or more external backup drives.