restoring backup

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 11:02 +0200, roberto wrote: 
> Hello, i did a backup of my home data when i was using debian and
> backup2l utility.
> 
> Now i'd like to restore everything onto my new laptop with ubuntu
> 11.04. Is it possible ? I think ubuntu can properly restore data from
> that standard format (.tar.gz).

Sure it can be "restored", but whether things will work correctly after
you do so, to a newer release, is not guaranteed. 

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