Al. C <no.spam.acanton@take.out.adams-blake.no.spam.com> wrote:
> I run 9.1 with KDE on desktop machines for a book publishing business.
>
> I sure wish there was an easy and TOTALLY foolproof (yeah, I'm a fool)
> way to go from one version to the next without doing a clean "from
> scratch" install. I will have to install and/or configure:
>
> phpMyAdmin
> Apache
> PHP
> Crossover Office (and install Word)
> Moneydance
> Open Office
> MySQL databases
> Home dir files (yeah, should have been on own partition)

Yes, you now know why. I have / and /home on different harddisk, and
/usr/local symlinked to /home/local. You can use different partition of
same harddisk, if no other options are available. Then, I do
incremental backup of / regularly to /home/root/backup. For example, if
/etc/fstab was modified, then it would be backed up to
/home/root/backup/etc/fstab. This way, I only need to backup /home
partition.

For restore, you need to examine what you are restoring. If an
application changed its format in or location of their configuration
file, then no pacakge manager can help you.

> FireFox and bookmarks
> CUPS printers and settings
> Email and newsgroups accounts (Kmail/Knode)
> Email address book
> Jpilot data
> fstab entries for camera and hda
> Realplayer

--
William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>, Toronto, Canada
Slackware Linux -- because I can type.