Spring - Time to clean house (Home)

[nevj (Neville Jackson)]

@easyt50

On a clean install the hidden files must be for the most part empty.

Yes, you lose all your emails and your firefox settings and any personal .desktop files.

@easyt50

Backup /home to include the ‘.’ files. Delete everything to see what happens.

Yes learn by experiment

@easyt50

Maybe tar or rsync will copy hidden files.

You need to be careful.
In rsync use a trailing / on the sourcedirectoryname … that means cpoy everything in this directory recursively, including dot files

See this discussion

Using the CLI to backup or copy a Linux system

This is a joint post by @kovacslt and @nevj and Using the CLI to backup or copy a Linux system There are several programs commonly used to backup and restore the root filesystem of a Linux installation. A number of them ( borg, systemback, timeshift) use rsync ‘under the hood’ . However it is possible to use rsync directly , as a CLI command. It is also possible to use tar. Some users prefer CLI , because it gives them full control over the backup and restore processes. There are other pos…