selective backups
I have had a search around the forum regarding backups in Ubuntu and all I can really find are relating to system backups, however this is not what I am needing. On my main, dekstop, machine upgrading to 10.04 was straight forward, however on my laptop I was running 9.04 (jaunty) dual boot with vista, it was on my laptop I originally was trying out Ubuntu to shift from windows so when I originally installed ubuntu I only created a 10gb partition for the install, the rest of the HD consisted of a pretty inflated vista partition and a separate 15gb partition which I could use for files in both ubuntu or vista.
I haven't used the laptop a great deal recently but decided to update to 10.04 and found that I would of course have to upgrade to 9.10 first then to 10.04 but when i tried to upgrade to 9.10 I was told I did not have sufficient space, so what I decided I should do is a fresh install of 10.04, using both the existing ubuntu partition and the other 15gb shared partiton which I was going to destroy totally and create one single 25gb partition for a fresh install but before I do I wish to only make a selective backup of various configurations like compiz/emerald, some other application configurations like WINE amongst others so that when I do a fresh install I can restore all my settings/themes/configurations and so on without having to spend countless hours redoing stuff.
As I said all i can really find searching the forums relate to backing up a system/partition/drive or backing up GRUB and nothing about just selective backups, otherwise I'm going to have a lot of time in front of me resetting so much stuff.
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