Full System Backup

[Tanner2007]

Possible? I love the way my Ubuntu OS is setup but I have a habit of **** it up, anyway to do a system backup? snap shot? image? anything?

please and thanks

[darolu]

You can back the whole hard drive/partition up with dd:

$ dd if=/dev/sdXX of=/path/to/your/image/backup.img

you can clone it to a another hard drive too:

$ dd if=/dev/sdXX of=/dev/sdXX

I usually have my /home in a different partition, that way all my personal configurations and data remain intact should I need to make a clean install.

[Rodney9]

Clonezilla is very good -

http://www.clonezilla.org/

[e24ohm]

You can back the whole hard drive/partition up with dd:

$ dd if=/dev/sdXX of=/path/to/your/image/backup.img

you can clone it to a another hard drive too:

$ dd if=/dev/sdXX of=/dev/sdXX

I usually have my /home in a different partition, that way all my personal configurations and data remain intact should I need to make a clean install.

Is /home location, were all the configuration files saved for applications?

[drs305]

Is /home location, were all the configuration files saved for applications?

Most of your personal settings are in your /home folder (/home/yourusername). Many system configuration files which may be important to you, such as fstab if you made many changes to it, network settings, and the default Grub 2 settings, are stored in various /etc folders.

When I'm doing a clean install I usually make straight copies of my /home, /etc, and /boot folders for quick reference, even though I have backups in less accessible locations/formats.