I hosed FC5 need help with file names and locations to verify all current files are backed up.
Todd Zullinger
tmz at pobox.com
Tue Aug 15 20:21:28 UTC 2006
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jlgates at charter.net wrote:
> I hosed my FC5 install.
Sorry to hear that.
> I don't know the name or location of the files that hold my address
> book in KMail and my bookmarks in Firefox.
Firefox bookmarks are kept in
~/.mozilla/firefox/<profile>/bookmarks.html, where profile is a random
string, something like this: nt4m68tk.default. I'm not a KDE user,
but I believe the address book is stored in
~/.kde/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf.
I would backup all of ~/.kde and ~/.mozilla at least, and all of ~/
unless it was simply too large to fit onto you backup drive.
> I can't get my KMail files (the e-mail that I saved in folders) to
> move by scp the file names have a lot of puncuation marks in them
> and the SSH does not like it. Will these files still work in Kmail
> if I can zip them, move them, and unzip again?
They should. I'd use tar instead of zip. Zip won't include any file
permissions or ownership info.
> Or, does some one know a clean simple way to get these files copied
> over to my other box with the SSH/SCP command in the shell?
Use -r to scp to recursively copy the directories.
$ scp -r ~/.kde/share/apps/mail backuphost:/path/to/save/files
You should be able to use scp to transfer files which contain special
characters, you just need to quote them.
$ scp -r 'Don\'tcha hate files with Punctuation!' backuphost:/tmp
I find it a pain to remember to quote things and it messes up my
ability to tab complete things in bash sometimes, so I'd just
recursively copy the whole dir. Or tar up ~/ and then scp that.
Good luck,
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