Re: Keeping VPN settings

[Greg Oliver <greg oliver cistera com>]

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 10:16 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> 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
> 

Well, I spoke too soon - the export and import both looked ok, and it
re-populated the ~/.gconf/system/networking/vpn_connections subdir, but
they are not showing up in the nm-applet.  File permissions are all
correct, etc.. 

Only thing I did was upgrade from 0.6.5 to 0.7 (Ubuntu to Fedora8) due
to wanting to try the new features in 0.7..  

Would that cause any issues?

Thanks,

Greg