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>Make separate backups of each group of files you want to preserve.
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NAME="AEN69">7. Make separate backups of each group of files you want to preserve.</H1
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>This is the most variable part of the job, and all I can really do to
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help is to describe what I did in my system, in the hope that it will
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serve as a rough guide. Basically, you want to look at every
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directory that contains any
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>files that aren't part of your standard linux installation, or
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>files that are actually newer than the ones you'll install when you do
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your new linux installation.
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>and separate out only those files that you want to carry over.
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>(Another possible strategy is to back up all files with mtime or
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ctime more recent than the day of the previous linux installation,
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as mentioned above, and then restore from that. If you do that,
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you have to take into account that the new linux distribution may
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contain versions of some files that are newer still than the ones
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you saved.)
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>In my case, I ended up making a .tgz file on the backup medium for
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each of
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>/usr/lib/rn</P
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>/usr/lib/smail</P
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>/usr/lib/trn (the rest of /usr/lib would be
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reinstalled)</P
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>/usr/local/src</P
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>/usr/local/bin</P
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>/usr/local/lib</P
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>/usr/local/lpfont</P
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>/usr/local/man</P
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>/usr/local/sbin</P
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>/usr/local/thot (there were other /usr/local files
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I didn't need)</P
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>/usr/openwin</P
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>/usr/src/lilo-17 (because my new Slackware still
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>/usr/src/linux-1.2.13 (because I'd done some
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customizing)</P
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>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults</P
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>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/initrc (the rest of Xfree86 was
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to be reinstalled)</P
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>/var/named</P
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>/var/openwin</P
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>/var/texfonts</P
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>My machine was relatively easy in that there were no spool files to
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worry about. I don't run a news spool on this box, and since there
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are only two users, it was easiest just to get all the mail read
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before shutting down. Otherwise, /var/spool directories would have
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had to be backed up at the last minute. (And, of course, the news
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library and site directories!)
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