terminal command to backup restore

[samkct]

Hi;

I wish to know if there a Terminal command to backup the entire filesystem to an external media or n/w drive. and restore the same to a new ubuntu machine without crashing the same. :)

Regards
SD

[Lars Noodén]

Probably the most useful tool in that area is rsync (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/oneiric/en/man1/rsync.1.html).

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/rsync

It's at its best when updating a backup copy because it only transfers the changes not the whole file again and again.

[samkct]

Hi;

I wish to know if there a Terminal command to backup the entire filesystem to an external media or n/w drive. and restore the same to a new ubuntu machine without crashing the same. :)

Regards
SD
Will this help the purpose of entire system backup? rather than the data folder. My intension is to backup the entire linux partition.

[Lars Noodén]

rsync will do that, just be sure to exclude /dev, /proc and /sys