Migration to Dapper

[Michael V. De Palatis]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:46:56AM -0500, Rajiv Vyas wrote:
> I am eventually planning to migrate to Dapper one it's out. Two questions:
> 
> * What's the easiest way to back up files -- I pretty much save every file
> in my home directory but emails (Evolution, Thunderbird), Tomboy notes, etc.
> are saved in their own directories or folders.

I'm a big fan of making tarballs. Generally, you would do something
like

tar -cvzf homebackup.tar.gz /home/username

(or, if you don't want the annoying /home/username directory
structure, you can just do this in your home dir and replace
'/home/username' with simply '.').

If you have a backup machine, rsync or unison is another option, as
well.

> 
> * I have not kept track of many additional software on Horay. Is there a way
> to find out which additional software (Java, Flash, RealPlayer, Adobe, etc)
> I have installed so that I can install them on Dapper?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rajiv

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