upgrade to lastest distro--from 6 to infinity?

[Francis Earl]

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 08:54 +0200, thebopper wrote:
> I've been quite happy with fc6 for a few years now having migrated from SuSE and Ubuntu.
> 
> The backup of personal data is my main problem or hold-up. k3b can backup to cd but has a real problem with my dual-layer dvd burner.  I realize a fresh install, maybe to fc-8 would be the best route but I don't want to recreate all my preferences et-all if at all possible. My desktop machine is also a bit dated and imagine upgrading to a newer model in the short future. I can add another drive and dual boot if necessary and transfer data from one distro to another.
> 
> Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I'd recommend looking into rsnapshot if you have another drive handy...
just backup /home and install. Or just don't reformat /home but I'm not
sure if you can do that if /home is on the same LVM partition as the
rest of the system?