The last company I worked for (and who laid me off 3 months ago....I can't believe I'm giving them a free advertisement), has a product that takes an image of the entire disk (or disks, or SAN LUN). That includes EVERYTHING - ALL files, applications, etc. You can then restore that image onto similar or dissimilar hardware (or to a VM), change specifics (host name, IP's, etc.), boot, and go. Very very cool product.<br>
The reason I mention that is that you may want to search a free util that does that or part of that.<br><br clear="all">-- Asher <br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
and do database dumps and scavenge /root, /usr/local, and /opt if you<br>
have used them.<br>
<br>
Be prepared to have a fight getting gui to work with ~/.gnome files<br>
being that far behind.<br>
<br>
Big mess is evolution mail files have changed formats a few times.<br>
First run may take a while.<br>
<br>
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Richard Bronosky<<a href="mailto:Richard@bronosky.com">Richard@bronosky.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Sean<<a href="mailto:drifter@oppositelock.org">drifter@oppositelock.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Are there any config files that I really should save before<br>
>> I hose everything but the /home partition?<br>
><br>
> I always tar up /etc before making such moves.<br>
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