[vox] Re: Ubuntu Desktop backup?

[Alex Mandel]

  > Today's Topics:
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>    1. Ubuntu Desktop backup? (Chris Horsting)
>    2. Re: Ubuntu Desktop backup? (Scott Ritchie)
>    3. Re: Ubuntu Desktop backup? (David Hummel)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:46:34 -0800
> From: Chris Horsting <sac85672 at saclink.csus.edu>
> Subject: [vox] Ubuntu Desktop backup?
> To: vox at lists.lugod.org
> Message-ID: <1196217994.7653.10.camel at chris-desktop>
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> Hello,
> 
> I have Ubuntu 7.10 and a DVD burner. So, I am planning to back my system
> onto a DVD.  I looked at Ubuntu community documentation:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem?highlight=%28backup%
> 29, and there are a lot of options.
> 
> So, which option would be good to backup my system onto a DVD?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Chris
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:48:55 -0800
> From: Scott Ritchie <scott at open-vote.org>
> Subject: Re: [vox] Ubuntu Desktop backup?
> To: horsting at csus.edu,	LUGOD's general discussion mailing list
> 	<vox at lists.lugod.org>
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> Chris Horsting wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have Ubuntu 7.10 and a DVD burner. So, I am planning to back my system
>> onto a DVD.  I looked at Ubuntu community documentation:
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem?highlight=%28backup%
>> 29, and there are a lot of options.
>>
>> So, which option would be good to backup my system onto a DVD?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Chris
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> How big is your home folder?  If it'll fit onto a DVD, the easiest thing
> to do is just copy it without any special software.
> 
> Thanks,
> Scott Ritchie
> 
> 

Along the lines of this method I recommend SBackup, it's in the Ubuntu 
repos and was a google summer of code project. It takes the guess work 
out of knowing which files are the right system files and makes a nice 
tar.gz for you.

If you're inclined it can also do automatic incremental backups.

Alex