18.04 upgrade and backup options

[vinnywright]

That's exactly how I am backing up my $HOME at the moment, as I am planning a fresh install so I can have full disk encryption. Ubuntu dropped the encrypted $HOME, so upgrading from 16.04 to 18.04 breaks this, and you can't log in to a GUI without installing the now-unsupported ecryptfs package :O ,
I think Riddell et al over on Neon modified the upgrade tool to fix this, but I tested upgrading early, highlighting this problem.

I saw your (and others) reports on the "ecryptfs" problem.

Now, I have not seen how restoring works yet, I have not tested.

O ,I may wate for you to chime back in on that.

Oh, yeah, I am backing up from a running session.

my worry is trying to backup / wile running , that may be a bit different than just $HOME , so I will be doing the backup from a different install , probably

VINNY

[claydoh]

That's exactly how I am backing up my $HOME at the moment, as I am planning a fresh install so I can have full disk encryption. Ubuntu dropped the encrypted $HOME, so upgrading from 16.04 to 18.04 breaks this, and you can't log in to a GUI without installing the now-unsupported ecryptfs package :O ,
I think Riddell et al over on Neon modified the upgrade tool to fix this, but I tested upgrading early, highlighting this problem.

Now, I have not seen how restoring works yet, I have not tested.


Oh, yeah, I am backing up from a running session.

[vinnywright]

well tonight I got the notification for the upgrade to 18.04 on my Neon-/dev/stable ,,,, I am going to take it BUT

this is a rather well modified system and I am expecting problems , it's using the Nvidia-396 from the graphics drivers PPA and as of 2 days ago it still was not ready for Bionic on a bionic install .
the system was originally Kubuntu-16.04 that has the Neon-/dev/stable repo added to it , so their may be some concern their as well .

lots of other PPA's as well , that I know will be disabled as part of the upgrade .

I'm not looking for a no don't do it or a yes , go for it it is going to happen .

what I am looking for is some guidance in backing it all up so I can restore it if it goes south .
it lives on ext4 so no snapshot options like the 2 of my 5 systems I have already done that live on BTRFS .
/home is in / and not on a different partition and @current / is 27G

I plan (so far) to use rsync , the questions that I think I need to ask so far are ,

1-can this be done from the running system , I assume not ?
2- should something like this work
mount the / partition "mount -t ext4 /dev/sda6 /mnt/test" , mount the storage drive "mount -t btrfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/btrfs " and have a directory named "backup" on sdb1

sudo rsync -azvv /mnt/test /mnt/btrfs/backup

?

and any other things you all can think of .

VINNY