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[RSH]

Update Version 0.4 available at two posts above!

[musher0]

Hi, RSH.

You're a real 2-legged Puppy! People offer you a bone and you keep at it until it's clean!

Many thanks for this script!

[sc0ttman]

I've attached a file that contains lots of blank/empty stuff, organized as it appears when installed... This includes settings for many popular apps, font + GTK settings, some puppy settings, and so on... I probably missed a load of stuff as well...

The idea will be something like:

- add the attached stuff to a new folder, ~/.migration_tool/
- run a 'migration_tool' script, which does:

[RSH]

[p310don]

I feel special.

I sprout an idea, and you guys come up with the beginnings of a solution. Love it. I don't have any coding, nor barely command line skills, so I am really relying on you other guys skills to do this. Thanks

RSH - I really like where you are headed with this. I think your vision is slightly different to mine, but you have created a perfect foundation to build upon I think. My only suggestion / criticism / room for improvement at this point, would be to ask, "is there a reason you chose to default to saving to /root?" I might have thought that saving outside the save file /mnt/home would make more sense to copy it to new save file.

sc0ttman - As I said, I don't code, so I'm struggling to keep up with what you have offered. If I get it correctly, your idea is to replace those bits in your attachment, with the equivalent bits from the original save file, then compress that into one big .tar.gz labelled by date? Then you can uncompress that into the new save file, replacing the settings?

For both ideas offered, is there a way to make it easy for a user to do all this from the new puppy. Currently, RSH's works from the old save file to make backups which can then be unpackaged into the new. If this tool was run from the new Puppy save file, located the old save file, copied the bits out of it and replaced the new, default settings with the old, personalised settings it would be perfect.

Thinking out loud here, if running from the new puppy installation, creating a tar.gz is almost pointless as an unnecessary step. Simply copy the old and overwrite the new files should be all that is needed. For email and browsers, the offline storage / cache could be huge, thus making compressing very time consuming.

[sc0ttman]

[RSH]

[RSH]

Update Version 0.6 available!
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=609134#609134

[RSH]

Update Version 0.9 available!
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=609134#609134

[musher0]

Hello, everyone.

Not to diminish RSH's excellent work in any way, but it occurred to me that there is another, perhaps more simple and "sledgehammer" way to do this:

Save a tar archive of your entire /root directory somewhere safe. Then, when you upgrade to your new Puppy, unpack it, and pick and choose what you want to re-incorporate.

In so doing, you'll additionnaly have the listing of packages under .packages, which will be a good indication of the pets that you may want to re-install.

Just a thought.

Of course, if you want to download RSH's latest version of LaZyPuppy, he's incorporated his backup script in it! (Speaking of "lazy" [in the strictest sense of the word, of course]... )

Have fun!

[RSH]

Update Version 1.4 available!
Moved to here: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=614348#614348

[Lobster]