Re: backing up

[Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

On 27/05/12 12:31 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 18:45 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > > cp -R ~/.thunderbird ~/.thunderbird.backup
>
> >     Nevermind :) Found the backups in /var/lib/gdm3
> >     Didn't realize that's where GDM would put them.
>
> A GDM script can't put ~/.thunderbird.backup in /var/lib/gdm3, since the
> path ~/ belongs to /home/user_account, resp. /root. You must have done
> something wrong.
sid:/var/lib/gdm3#
 ls -a .        .dbus             .gconf.path        .pulse .. 
.gconf            gschemas.compiled  .pulse-cookie .cache   .gconfd 
      .ICEauthority      Seat1 .config  .gconf.mandatory  .local 
      thunderbird.backup

sid:/var/lib/gdm3#


As you can see, the back-up is there. And I just checked again by 
exiting the WM and it's the correct date/time

When I added that line to the Default script I assumed they would go 
into my home dir. I dunno.