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Idea #87: Profiles management

bug This idea was marked as being not considered for implementation the 25 November 11.
Written by Dareus the 28 Feb 08 at 17:02. Category: System. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: Won't implement
Rationale
Setting up the ability to store personal information and configurations in a file, protected by password.

How should it work
I save my profile (select informations I'd like to be saved in that profile) and import it in another ubuntu installation.

When use it
- I buy a new pc, I'd like to have all my preferences and password in my new ubuntu installation.
Save my profile and import it in the new computer, and then everything is correctly set.
- I should throw away my old pc and buy a new one: same thing, save my profile (with e-mails, bookmarks, preferences, maybe list of packages installed, etc.)
- Format pc (hope not), same as the other points.
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Solution #1: Auto-generated solution of idea #87
Written by Dareus the 28 Feb 08 at 17:02.
Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #87 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

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Alan Pope (Ubuntu developer) wrote on the 28 Feb 08 at 17:04
Aren't you technically talking about a backup?

Backup from one machine and restore on another?

Dareus wrote on the 28 Feb 08 at 17:08
A graphical backup, not based on copying single files but on copying informations stored in lot of different places.
If I'd like to save my Firefox bookmarks and Thunderbird or Evolution e-mail or Rhytmbox playlists or even all my passwords, avatar, pidgin contacts, addressbook, etc. It could be better to do it in a few clicks (in the same app) and without searching every directory for settings you may want to save.

Alan Pope (Ubuntu developer) wrote on the 28 Feb 08 at 17:11
Everything you've listed is in ~/.* files and directories. Any backup tool (backuppc, backup manager, sbackup) would be able to back that up to a USB disk or CDROM.

thermosilla wrote on the 13 Jun 08 at 23:31
i think this is more than a simple backup... a list of the installed packages is very useful IMO

cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 25 Nov 11 at 19:51
Did not vote high enough for consideration by Ubuntu developers.


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