Question fresh install

[Valter Mura]

In data giovedì 30 settembre 2010 18:55:46, Georgi Kourtev ha scritto:

> Dear all,
> 
> I have a production machine that was my first-ever 100% linux machine. I
> started with Kubuntu 8.04 and during the past two years I have just
> upgraded the OS and now I run with 10.04.1., KDE 4.5.1.
> 
> All is fine but due to the fact that this was my 'first-ever-machine' with
> linux (now my whole office with 7 PCs is with Kubuntu), I was using it to
> experiment everything that I wanted to try.  As I am not expert, I found
> out that after two years it started to work rather slow. For example, the
> login takes about 1,5-2 minutes, after opening Kontact, I need to wait for
> about 5-8 minutes for some disk-work that blocks everything, etc.
> 
> So I decided to do a fresh install soon after 10.10 is available with /home
> on a separate partition.  My question is what should I do to preserve all
> my work on that machine (which is my primary office production machine)? 
> I do back-ups every week.  It is obvious that I will need to copy back all
> files from my Documents, Pictures and all the rest visible directories
> under /home. Also to follow some of the instruction to migrate my
> mails/addresses/calendar entries into the new install.
> 
> What else?  Any advice that will make my life easier is appreciated.

AFAIK, IMHO, you need to backup the entire Home directory, hidden files 
included, in which all settings are stored.

Regards,
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Valter
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