annoying tasks 101

[cimorene]

Every time I reinstall my OS, I forget to back up /home and lose all my preferences including my Gimp curves presets and my Amarok playlists. *grouch* I've uploaded tracklistings for several of my favourites, over the years, under the tag mixtapes (I use this for short playlists with predetermined order as opposed to 'playlists' for big bundles of music meant to be listened to on shuffle), so it's possible to remake a small handful of them, but I tend to make at least one new playlist each month and I've lost, I think, five or six each time I've upgraded.

Comments

[brownbetty]

I lost /home while trying to put it on its own partition so I wouldn't lose it every time I installed, so I feel your pain.

[vass]

Oh God.

cimness's post was making me think of moving /home to a different drive, but now I'm thinking better of it.

[brownbetty]

But I fucked up! It wasn't home's fault! I deleted my backup and made every error known to userspace!

[vass]

And you think I won't fuck up? (Oh yeah, backups, she said with an expression of deep shame.)

Actually, I have already fucked up: guess where my second hard drive is mounted?

Yep, /home. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

I'm going to have to remember how to unmount it and mount it back in /mnt where I should have put it (I edited /etc/fstab, so I'll need to change that) and *then* mount /home there, and *then* move the various directories already on the drive into /home.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

And your bookmarks are also in /home!!! NIGHTMARE. Luckily, I've been backing them up obsessively frequently in multiple places for about a year now, ever since the last Bookmarks Losing Fiasco.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

COPY! DON'T MOVE! BACKUPS, BACKUPS, BACKUPS.

I've had reinstalls 4 times now and only one of those times did I have my settings. That was because Brother Linux did the whole thing for me, including creating an entirely new partition that he named "old home". I could've kept that for backups forever except we had to reformat again...