On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 15:18 -0700, Aldo Foot wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Alex Makhlin <makhlina@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am an IT professional but quite new to Linux. I am using Fedora 9 and a > > few times now, most of which have been my fault, I will experiment and/or > > make some changes that would then give me errors while logged in as my > > personal user or at times I cannot even get to the desktop. The only fix I > > have found is a fix of a novice. I just create a new user, copy all my > > personal files over to the new user, reset all of my preferences, and am > > back up running again. Yesterday after running the latest Fedora updates, I > > could no longer get to the desktop of my personal user so in the end I had > > to go through the same process of creating a new user before I could login. > > But I again had to go through the tedious task of copying my personal files > > and personalising the settings of the new user. > > > > Here is the question: Is there any way to backup my existing user info so > > that I can just restore the backup when I need to and have all of my user > > preferences set the way I left them? I have tried backing up the "Home" > > folder but after restoring it, I still had the same problem. > > > > Any help would be appreciated, > > Alex > > > > > You need to make sure the hidden files from > the source account get copied to the target > account. If you use tar this is done automatically. > > If you use the 'cp' command then change directories > to the source directory and do "cp -r ./.* ../targetDir>" > That only copies hidden files. Do "ls -a <targetDir>" to check. > > Notice the syntax-- "./.*" it's a dot, slash, dot, star. > > Then copy no hidden files the normal way. > > ~af > It would bew bettewre to use tar -k which does not relace files that are already there. There are gnome related files that show up in a new directory which need to be kept. -- ======================================================================= The last vestiges of the old Republic have been swept away. -- Governor Tarkin ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
