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[Nogg3r5]

It shouldnt be this easy...

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sudo su

cd /

tar cvpzf backup.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/backup.tgz --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys /


...but it is! You might want to read this first, just so you know what your doing...

How to: Backup And Restore Your Ubuntu System

[Pieter]

Creating backups is just a waste of time. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it until my hard drive crashes.

[Nogg3r5]

Creating backups is just a waste of time. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it until my hard drive crashes.

Yeah, I know the feeling. But with HDD's beign so cheap. I figure I could grab a 20-30gb one, just to do system backups.

[Ryan Wagner]

Creating backups is just a waste of time. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it until my hard drive crashes.

And then what will you do. 

Having two hard drives crash on me within a few months is more than enough to make me create backups.

[Pieter]

I don't think I have important data on my hard drive. Except maybe for some BBC idents I edited so that they don't contain a voiceover, but I can always re-download and re-edit them. Long live Gmail, where all your e-mails are stored on Google's servers!