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Matt03

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From: Italy

Registered: 2021-07-09

Posts: 16

[SOLVED] Best way to backup my user data and programs to a new laptop

Hi, I'm currently working on my old laptop with Arch Linux and I wish to buy a new one soon, my question is, which is the best way to handle the data transfer from the old laptop to the new one.

I have two separate partitions, one for the user data and other one for the system.

Is a pretty good solution to back up only the user data under the /home/$USER/ directory to the new laptop and then reinstall all the programs/softwares/packages with pacman again?

Or is it better if I include in the backup also the directories like /etc/, /root/, /opt/, /bin/, etc... to preserve configuration files?

Thank you!

Last edited by Matt03 (2021-08-30 00:00:19)

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Ammako

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Registered: 2021-07-16

Posts: 267

Re: [SOLVED] Best way to backup my user data and programs to a new laptop

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Matt03

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From: Italy

Registered: 2021-07-09

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] Best way to backup my user data and programs to a new laptop

Seems legit, marked as solved. Thank you!

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