[LBo] Moving Home

[J. Armstrong]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Tim wrote:

>
> I am getting ready to swap distros over the weekend, I intend to copy my
> entire home directory to an external usb disk, will I need to do anything
> special with the permission, should I do anything speacial now before I swop,
> particualrly with the  mail folder (I use kmail and my ISP, no mail server)??
>
> Tim

If you're backing up to a USB flash drive, don't copy the files directly; use tar to create an archive file preserving the permissions.  

sudo tar -zcSpf home.tar.gz /home

When you set up the new system, make sure the user has the same user and group IDs, or be prepared to chown/chmod as required.

To restore your data from the archive:

sudo tar -zxSpf home.tar.gz

Cheers,

Jason
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