clean upgrade, what is the minimum
 

Greetings all:

I am planning on upgrading my netbook by doing a clean install and restoring portions of /home from backup. But my intention is to restore as little as possible to eliminate years of cruft. From my /home/patton directory, all I think I need (aside from documents of course) is my email .thunderbird and .ssh for my various keys. In another thread, it was suggested to include bits and pieces from /etc and /var. What would I need from those directories? Is there something else I'm missing?

Thanks

PE

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On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 2:36 PM, <p.echols@comcast.net> wrote:
> Greetings all:
>
> I am planning on upgrading my netbook by doing a clean install and restoring portions of /home from backup. *But my intention is to restore as little as possible to eliminate years of cruft. *From my /home/patton directory, all I think I need (aside from documents of course) is my email .thunderbird and .ssh for my various keys. *In another thread, it was suggested to include bits and pieces from /etc and /var. *What would I need from those directories? *Is there something else I'm missing?

The other day I did exactly this and among other things, before
Precise install, included in my new /home the following folders:

.gnupg (PGP keys)
.mozilla (after cleaning the cache - if you do sync it)
.purple (Pidgin)
.dosemu
.dropbox
.Skype
.ssh
.thunderbird (after compacting accounts)
.Virtualbox
.vmware


However, if you intend to keep your current home and root for a while,
it is possible, in some cases, to import (or check) the older
configuration files even after the install, (I had to do it with
.mozilla and .gnupg).

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clean upgrade, what is the minimum
 

On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:36:40 +0000 (UTC), p.echols@comcast.net wrote:

Greetings all:

I am planning on upgrading my netbook by doing a clean install and
restoring portions of /home from backup. But my intention is to
restore as little as possible to eliminate years of cruft. From my
/home/patton directory, all I think I need (aside from documents of
course) is my email .thunderbird and .ssh for my various keys. In
another thread, it was suggested to include bits and pieces from /etc
and /var. What would I need from those directories? Is there
something else I'm missing?

Thanks

PE


It depends on what software you use and how attached you are to the
settings of that software.
If you run a webserver (not likely on a netbook, but I'm uninspired for
a better example) you may want to restore /etc/apache*.


Maybe you can just do a clean install, and then see what you are
missing, and restore things as needed?


Best regards,
Patrick Asselman

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On 04/30/2012 07:58 PM, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 2:36 PM,<p.echols@comcast.net> wrote:

Greetings all:

I am planning on upgrading my netbook by doing a clean install and restoring portions of /home from backup. But my intention is to restore as little as possible to eliminate years of cruft. From my /home/patton directory, all I think I need (aside from documents of course) is my email .thunderbird and .ssh for my various keys. In another thread, it was suggested to include bits and pieces from /etc and /var. What would I need from those directories? Is there something else I'm missing?

The other day I did exactly this and among other things, before
Precise install, included in my new /home the following folders:

.gnupg (PGP keys)
.mozilla (after cleaning the cache - if you do sync it)
.purple (Pidgin)
.dosemu
.dropbox
.Skype
.ssh
.thunderbird (after compacting accounts)
.Virtualbox
.vmware


However, if you intend to keep your current home and root for a while,
it is possible, in some cases, to import (or check) the older
configuration files even after the install, (I had to do it with
.mozilla and .gnupg).


Ahh, some good points I had forgotten. like .gnupg and .Skype

I still cannot think of what I might want out of /var or /etc. I
suppose I can rummage around and see what I might be missing.


Thanks,

-- PE

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