Re: Keeping VPN settings

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 04:26 -0600, Greg Oliver wrote:
> I always keep my /home directory on a separate partition for upgrade
> purposes.  Lately, I have noticed that certain gnome applets, etc are
> not available due to old settings under .gconf.
> 
> The only think I really care abou tare the 100+ vpnc conections I have.
> What is the proper way to back them up and restore after I upgrade
> gnome?

With 0.6.x, right?

You should be able to do something like:

gconftool-2 --dump /system/networking/vpn_connections > vpn-connection-backup.xml

then to restore after upgrade/clean-install, do:

gconftool-2 --load vpn-connection-backup.xml

Dan