Backup prior to upgrade gone horribly wrong... help?
Posted: 2008-05-13 04:15pm
Ok, so I'm working on doing a clean upgrade from Kubuntu 7.04 to 8.04.
I made a CD-R backup of my really important stuff, then decided to archive everything in my home folder so I could move it somewhere safe for the upgrade.
So I ran from /home something along the lines of : so I could see everything in action.
And it starts munching away. 10 min. later, my desktop dissapears. WTF? I dig in with a good old "ls" and discover that it is replacing all my files with compressed versions of them. Including, apparently, my desktop image.
Turns out there's a pretty damn big difference between GZIP and TAR, which is what I should have done.
It's still running, I don't want to interupt it, but when it's done, how to I unzip everything in the same order so my files are in the exact same place they should be? After that, I want to tarball the entire home folder so I have one file to shove around. I think I can figure that part out, but advice on that too is much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
I made a CD-R backup of my really important stuff, then decided to archive everything in my home folder so I could move it somewhere safe for the upgrade.
So I ran from /home something along the lines of :
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sudo gzip --verbose --fast --recursive dnorton/And it starts munching away. 10 min. later, my desktop dissapears. WTF? I dig in with a good old "ls" and discover that it is replacing all my files with compressed versions of them. Including, apparently, my desktop image.
Turns out there's a pretty damn big difference between GZIP and TAR, which is what I should have done.
It's still running, I don't want to interupt it, but when it's done, how to I unzip everything in the same order so my files are in the exact same place they should be? After that, I want to tarball the entire home folder so I have one file to shove around. I think I can figure that part out, but advice on that too is much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.