TRANSFUSE A Script to Backup and Restore KDE Plasma Desktop Configurations

[Locutus]

I ran across Transfuse A script for backing up and restoring plasma KDE’s Plasma desktop configuration and was wondering if anyone here has tested it?

cscs / Transfuse · GitLab

[SGS]

Nope.
Did it work, you test it by yourself?

[Locutus]

I was wanting to see if anyone here had tried it out before testing it myself. I really don’t want to test something like this til I ferret out the permissions issue on the external drives just in case the issue also affects the OS as well in some way. I wouldn’t mind getting your thoughts on my last post in mt permissions thread. If it is or isn’t a good idea.

[sunda]

From cscs in Cachy Forum:

@cscs

Make new installs feel like home in seconds.

Transfuse will let you easily copy and/or compress desktop configurations and more from one user or system and apply it to another.

Optionally supports exporting and applying native and foreign package lists as well.

While package lists are dependent on the pacman package manager all other functions should be agnostic - meaning you can create or apply backups from Arch to Ubuntu, from Ubuntu to CachyOS, CachyOS to CachyOS, or just about any other trajectory.

[SGS]

Maybe someone can test it in a VM.

@Locutus

I wouldn’t mind getting your thoughts on my last post in mt permissions thread.

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I’m trying to memorize as much as possible, but I don’t want to have to look for it in your history now

[SGS]

cscs use Cachy now, no Manjaro anymore?

Ahh, I think I tested long time ago, but failed, could be a PEBCAK problem.

[sunda]

He’s a new user with technical knowledge.
But I don’t know him or Manjaro (PamacOS).

[Locutus]

You mean you tested Cachy right cause Transfuse is only two days old unless there were betas. As for Chachy they have in the past used files for Plasma the other distros weren’t using causing some issues and confusion. This last release seems to be good now.

[SGS]

I once tested a script of him that was supposed to do this a long time ago, looks like it was this one , but it doesn’t have to be.

Edit:

Former moderator at
KDE Plasma kickstart issue: loop message "Applications updated." - #33 by cscs - KDE Plasma - Manjaro Linux Forum

[Locutus]

I must have been looking at the release date for the version then.

[SGS]

Correct, created on May 24, 2019, It’s even older than I thought.
At that time I was still in this forum.

[Locutus]

I might have to give it a go on BlueStar Linux since I need to wipe that partition and start over, cause I’d rather not create a secondary user and make sure it’s 1000. Somehow I got changed from 1000 to 1001 in it. Pretty sure it’s part of the issue with the That Girl permissions. The creator of BlueStar swears the main user is 1000.

[tbg]

I don’t keep any personal data in $HOME. I symlink everything from my storage drives into my home directory.

If you don’t store your data in /home, then the backup is mostly only your config files. I use Back in Time and exclude the dirs like cache locations etc, so the backup size is very small.

The backups are incremental, so only files that have changed are backed up repeatedly. I wrote a systemd timer to backup $HOME once daily. That’s as often as I need, because I don’t store documents or projects I’m constantly revising in /home.

Whille backing up your plasma configs is great in theory, they can become outdated quickly because KDE is constantly changing things. A daily backup using BiT takes little space with the way I have it configured, and that way my config backups are always current.

Just an alternative you might want to consider if you don’t store your personal data in $HOME.