Re: backup .kde

From: SuperDaemon (SuperDaemon_at_bogus.isp.INVALID.com)
Date: 02/01/04 

Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 06:34:24 GMT

ivan danicic wrote:

> Hello! When I make incremental backups they contain a huge number of
> subdirectories of ..../.kde./ . Are these really needed when restoring the
> system or can I safely not back them up? Any comments gratefully received.
> Ivan.

You are right. I only backup ~/.kde/share.

Here I have:

~$ ls -al ~/.kde
total 5.0K
drwx------ 4 me users 168 Jan 26 03:22 .
drwxr-xr-x 36 me users 2.4K Jan 31 23:52 ..
drwx------ 2 me users 80 Jan 26 03:22 Autostart
drwx------ 12 me users 296 Jan 30 03:42 share
lrwxrwxrwx 1 me users 15 Jan 26 03:12 socket-local ->
tmp/ksocket-me
lrwxrwxrwx 1 me users 11 Jan 26 03:07 tmp-local -> /tmp
kde-me

as you see ~/.kde/socket-local and ~/.kde/tmp-local are only symbolic link
files to some directroy in /tmp. I usually have Autostart empty, So the
only thing containing real data and worth backing-up is ~/.kde/share for
me. I save it on a space on another machine.

You can also cut down and trimm farther down and just save for example only
your adressbook data file or your konqueror bookmarks file.

Then again if you use kmail you also want to save ~/Mail or if you use pan
save ~/.pan as well