Hi,

Time to upgrade to the next LTS; 11.04 is no longer supported. I'm running the Studio variant on a Lenovo T510 laptop. I want to back up my files first. I always did that manually, with disorganized results, so wanted to try a utility. I tried to install sbackup, dejadup, and backuppc, but none of them would install. I get various errors depending on whether I use the terminal, Synaptic, or the Software centre. I'll show you some terminal results:
pad@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install backuppc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
backuppc : Depends: libarchive-zip-perl but it is not installable
Depends: libtime-modules-perl but it is not installable
Depends: libsocket6-perl but it is not installable
Recommends: libfile-rsyncp-perl (>= 0.68) but it is not installable
Recommends: rrdtool but it is not installable
Recommends: libio-dirent-perl but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
pad@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install grsync
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package grsync
pad@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install sbackup
[sudo] password for pad:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package sbackup
pad@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install dejadup
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package dejadup
pad@ubuntu:~$

Software Center gives me "dependencies cannot be resolved" for dejadup and backuppc; it cannot find sbackup.

Synaptic can only find backuppc; it says "fix broken packages first!"

I realize 11.04 is unsupported, but I didn't think that meant I couldn't install standard packages. Maybe something is messed up on my system.
Is there anything shipped with 11.04 I can use? I can open a terminal and use rsync, but I was hoping for something easier. I am unsure how to save just the files, not all the settings and other stuff, from my home folder. I tried to insall grsync as well, to no avail.

If I plug in a usb key with 12.04 while 11.04 is running, it asks me to upgrade. Would that put my data in peril? I'm tempted.

~Paul