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Backup gmail and google account data in 5 minutes

Hello World! For some reason we want to do a backup. A paranoid backup (in my case). We can backup all the google account data following these steps: 1. Log into your google account and go to: https://www.google.com/settings/takeout?pli=1 2. Select what you want to backup:  3. Continue and choose how do you want your backup to be delivery (I chose by email, but you can also store it on Google Drive) 4. Wait until you get a mail with the link (For my 500 MB mail backup it took 10 minutes, it could take more time to receive the mail, depending on your data) 5. Done! you can now download the data!

Change Unity in ubuntu: 2 Steps

If you like other elements of Ubuntu, but you don't like the user interface (desktop environment or login screen) or if you want to try a different UI, you don't need to change to another distro! You could install a new desktop environment or configure the new login screen. Also, you can get back to Unity if you like it better, every time you log in you will be able to choose between the installed desktop environments. Steps: Step 1 .  First, you need to install the desktop environment: For Gnome Shell(gnome3 ): sudo apt-get install gnome-shell sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool Clasic Gnome (gnome2): sudo apt-get install gnome-panel KDE: sudo apt-get install kde-standard or sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop (Taken from: http://kde.org/announcements/announce_4.2-beta1/desktop.png) Light and fast XFCE: sudo apt-get install xfce4 (Taken from: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfce ) A fork of Gnome 2 (MATE): sudo add-apt-re

Easy Openbravo steps (Duplicating an instance)

Hello world, You have a remote server with an Openbravo Instance, you need a local clone to start your development, what do you need to do? Assumptions: process are similar, in this particular case we are using a local pc with Windows/PostgreSQL and the remote server is using a Linux core/PostgreSQL Steps 0. Connect to the remote server 1. Backup a PostgreSQL database 2. Backup the OB folder 3. Restoring DB 4. Restoring OB  5. Configuring Openbravo.properties 6. Compiling 0. Connect to the a remote server   You need to establish an SSH connection with the remote server, I will be using BitVise for Windows (it provides SSH, an SFTP GUI and Port Forwarding)   Add your credentials and remember that some servers need public keys that you need to add. Once logged in, a new terminal will prompt;   1. Backup a PostgreSQL database In our new remote terminal we can execute pg_dump to backup our PostgreSQL database, with default values e.g. pg_dump -U tad -p 5432 -h