Firebird

lovin it! · Post by **lovin it!** » Thu Jan 08, 2004 4:30 pm

What do I save when I need to reinstall Gentoox?

I want to save settings for everything in Mozilla.

it runs from /usr/lib

I have searched the Mozill Firebird site to no avail.

should I save that whole Firebird folder?

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 12:28 am

NO! NO, NO, NO!

In your home directory, run

ls -A

You will see a bunch of hidden files. Save the ones relevant to Firebird.

lovin it! · Post by **lovin it!** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 3:07 am

lol, I saved all 34 megs of the Mozilla Firebird Folder, from within the usr/lib/mozilla/

and it worked...saved my bookmarks, but it killed my abilities to play yahoo games :(

sooooo....

thx to the ease of installing Shallox's wonderful operating system (I know he didnt write it all from scratch, but whoa! he should be paid :)

all I did was pop in my dvd backup of my rootfs and all the files that come with stardust...hehe

15 minute installation of GentooX :)

so now I'll look in my home directory and see what I can play with.

lovin it! · Post by **lovin it!** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 3:15 am

hmmm...

this probably means that I should save the home directory...

will that save my passwords for programs, as well as bookmarks and such, makes sense dont it?

if not ill tell ya lol

lovin it! · Post by **lovin it!** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 6:22 pm

nope!

I can save most of my home directory, but wont copy 12 files (1258 of 1270)
then...

ln: Operation not permitted /mnt/fatx/e/Linux stuff DontDelete/home/gentoox/.kde
ln: Operation not permitted /mnt/fatx/e/Linux stuff DontDelete/home/gentoox/.java/.userPrefs/.user.lk?n@? o@
ln: Operation not permitted /mnt/fatx/e/Linux stuff DontDelete/home/gentoox/.kde.backup
ln: Operation not permitted /mnt/fatx/e/Linux stuff DontDelete/home/gentoox/.kde3.1
ln: Operation not permitted /mnt/fatx/e/Linux stuff DontDelete/home/gentoox/.kde3.1/share/services/nk?n@? o@
ln: Operation not permitted /mnt/fatx/e/Linux stuff DontDelete/home/gentoox/.kde3.1/Autostart/.directory
ln: Operation not permitted /mnt/fatx/e/Linux stuff DontDelete/home/gentoox/.kde3.1/Autostart/.directory
ln: Operation not permitted /mnt/fatx/e/Linux stuff DontDelete/home/gentoox/.kde3.1/Autostart/.directory
ln: Operation not permitted /mnt/fatx/e/Linux stuff DontDelete/home/gentoox/.phoenix
ln: Operation not permitted /mnt/fatx/e/Linux stuff DontDelete/home/gentoox/.openoffice/1.0.2/setup
ln: Operation not permitted /mnt/fatx/e/Linux stuff DontDelete/home/gentoox/.openoffice/1.0.2/soffice
ln: Operation not permitted /mnt/fatx/e/Linux stuff DontDelete/home/gentoox/.openoffice/1.0.2/spadmin

nobspangle · Post by **nobspangle** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 11:25 pm

these are probably symbolic links which can only exist on unix filesystems. To back these up you need to make a loopback on your e drive format it in ext2, reiserfs or ext3 and then copy the files to there

Post by **ShALLaX** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 4:03 am

Nah, "tar -cjvf ~/backup.tbz2 ~/" That will backup your whole home directory including symlinks into ~/backup.tbz2

nobspangle · Post by **nobspangle** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 10:49 am

That would be the proper way to do it, (and it's the way I do it on my linux server at work)
but if you're mad you'd do it like me.

lovin it! · Post by **lovin it!** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 3:29 pm

Thx a Million

Now, can I just delete the Home directory and paste this one in, ... or what would be the correct way of doing this?

Post by **ShALLaX** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 4:51 pm

rm -rf /home/gentoox
cd /home/
tar -jxvf /path/to/backup.tbz2

That should have you sorted. Run those commands as root.

lovin it! · Post by **lovin it!** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 9:44 pm

Awesome,thx,

but I did figure out that /home/geNtoox/phoenix/default contains the Firebird settings(just the default profile)

and /home/gentoox/gaim is the folder that contains the settings for gaim

now reinstallation is even better.