[PLUG] PLUG Digest, Vol 156, Issue 17

[Tomas Kuchta]

Just copy back (or restore) your data only. Surely you know what and where
you have it: Documents, Videos, Music, etc. Re-install is always an
opportunity to clean up and organize old suff.

Alternatively, you could copy everything, but the dot files preserving
chaos. :-)
cd toYourBackupDirectory
cp -pr * /home/$USER/

This will copy all your old (non-dot) files and directories to your new
home.
I forgot the name for your username, hence the $USER variable.

If you prefer rsync, the command woul look this way:
rsync -a --progress * /home/$USER/

Hope it helps,
Tomas


On Sep 9, 2017 9:59 PM, "Denis Heidtmann" <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com> wrote:

Tomas,

Thanks for the advice.  Avoiding the . files sounds safest. I can have them
available if it looks like I need what is in them in particular cases.  Now
I need to understand how to avoid including them.  I do not see that cp
offers that, but perhaps rsync does.

-Denis

On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 9:41 PM, Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I would avoid copying files and directories starting with . Unless I know
> why I want the old file/directory. Example of what to copy over .Mozilla
if
> you want your old browser config or emails.... Would try to avoid
> kde/gnome/config files and directories, unless I need some of them.
>
> Tomas
>
>
>
> On Sep 9, 2017 6:55 PM, "Denis Heidtmann" <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > It occurs to me that the source being 14.04 and the target being 16.04
is
> > likely a complications.  See
> > http://eggsonbread.com/2010/01/28/move-ubuntu-to-another-
> > computer-in-3-simple-steps/
> >
> > I could upgrade the old 14.04 to 16.04 first to comply with the linked
> > instructions. (But note that those are from 2010.)  If I ignore this
> little
> > complication I worry that things will break badly.  Matching the
versions
> > is not a huge pain.
> >
> > I do not see that cp requires special handling for . files.  True?
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 9 Sep 2017, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> > >
> > > > Would rsync make my first question moot?
> > >
> > > Denis.
> > >
> > >    Perhaps. Read the rsync man page to better understand it. Briefly,
> > rsync
> > > will compare the same file name on source and target and copy the
> former
> > > version over the latter version if the source is newer. If there are
> > files
> > > on the source that are not on the target, rsync will copy the source
to
> > the
> > > target so both directories have the latest version of all files.
> > >
> > >    Be aware, however, that specifying the source directory only
regular
> > > files
> > > and subdirectories are examined and synchronized; e.g., if the source
> ~/
> > is
> > > the pwd, 'rsync * target/home/me/'; if the pwd is your target
> directory,
> > > 'rsync source/home/me/ .'. To synchronize the dot files you need to
> > specify
> > > '.*' to indicate all dot files instead of '*' to specify all normal
> > files.
> > > I
> > > got caught once by thinking that '*' copied dot files, too. It don't.
> > >
> > > Rich
> > >
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