[inbox] Re: c'est rien

[Advent Systems]

Greg,
    I think I follow you now.  I am basically putting a copy/backup of 
the current working  /home/username directory on my data drive (do it 
every so often so it's current).  When :) I blow this install up and 
re-install my distro which will install a new  /home/username 
directory,  I copy/overwrite the newly setup /home/username directory 
with my old one, and everything will be pretty much the same as before 
the re-install, is that right?

Thanks,
Bob Randal

Greg Neumann wrote:

> /home/<username> is used by the system and various apps to store all 
> kinds of config files. Is that perhaps why gnucash lost your invoices? 
> You certainly have the right idea about critical data. I find that 
> something important usually gets hosed really good on the day after 
> the Win2000 server backup bails out w/ some stupid error, so I've 
> taken to hiding the REALLY important stuff on local drives, etc. Just 
> in case. Having worked w/ both W2K and Linux as small business 
> servers, I must say I MISS Linux. The only thing on the W2K server 
> that has been absolutely fail-safe is the licensing monitoring module. 
> No surprise there, I guess. ;-)
> Anyway, you might just set up a small /home/<your_username> partition 
> on that data drive to keep the config files from blow-up to blow-up. ;-)
> -Greg Neumann
>
> Advent Systems wrote:
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>> Greg,
>>    For years now (before linux and I was blowing up my windows 
>> systems) :) I do keep my data on a separate HD that I split in two.  
>> 1/2 is linux data the other 1/2 is fat32 (I dual boot with win2k) and 
>> this has saved me from suicide :)  many, many, many .......times.  I 
>> know the value of this,  but since I keep no critical data in my home 
>> directory  is there any advantage to keeping that  directory on a 
>> separate  partition?
>> Thanks,
>> Bob Randal
>>
>> Greg Neumann wrote:
>>
>>> Bob,
>>> If you mess around with your system much, be sure to put your /home 
>>> directory on a separate disk partition, and put your crucial data 
>>> files there. That way when (not if! ;-)) you blow the system up 
>>> again, you can bypass formating that partition, set it back to home, 
>>> bring up gnucash in your new system and as they say, "Bob's your 
>>> uncle!" ... oh wait, you ARE Bob! ;-) (sorry!)
>>> Anyway, that recently saved my butt when I slapped a third drive in 
>>> my machine and tried to set up SuSE 9.1 on it and grub would not 
>>> boot anything! I eventually used the Slackware 10.0 setup CD, fixed 
>>> it so the Slackware drive would boot, and lo! there was all my data 
>>> in the partition I left it on. I really do like all the Linux 
>>> distros that ASK you if you want to format a partition and if and 
>>> where you want it mounted.
>>> At some point, long ago, someone far more savvy about these things 
>>> than I recommended that I put /home on a separate partition, even 
>>> drive if possible, and I'm sure glad I've been doing it since. Hope 
>>> this helps.
>>> -Greg Neumann
>>>
>>> Advent Systems wrote:
>>>
>>>> Steve,
>>>>    I save all my mail but this I think I will make into a wallpaper 
>>>> for my desktop!  Being a newbie I mostly lurk on this list and try 
>>>> to learn but most of the people here are working on such seriously 
>>>> advanced stuff I feel almost like an idiot asking about a stupid cd 
>>>> burner problem (but am grateful for how much I have learned from 
>>>> them) .  I think I see now,and agree, that  setting up and "fixing" 
>>>> problems in linux is half the fun.  I just need to setup one 
>>>> machine to do my "real work" with and don't screw with it.  What 
>>>> used to frustrate me (before your letter) :)  was that on a typical 
>>>> day I'd get my  books setup on gnucash , I'd then blow the system 
>>>> up trying something new and then I'd have to enter invoices!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Again,
>>>> Bob Randal
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