I have just flawlessly, fully restored both my Mandriva and Ubuntu partitions using the method outlined in the link below. I just thought it might come in handy for any fellow Linux newbies that are a little apprehensive and unfamiliar with backups procedures (people like me). It’s good to find something you know that works - both backup and restore were very easy to carry out.
Nice Find, you can also use rsync quite happily for backups (From one machine to the other).
You Can ether click “connect to server” under places and connect to the other machine that way (you can drag and drop files between your computers that way).
OR, May Fav
Rsync -avz [SOURCE aka /home] [DESTINATION aka user@machine:/home/backup]
I use rsync to backup my system onto my external firewire hard disc. It works great and here is a script that should work for automation. I haven’t tried it myself.
Mine works like:
# rsync -Cav --delete /home /mnt/fw/backup/and so on.
I never liked using tar for backups because it wastes space (ie one tar file for last week, maybe another one for monday and so on). If you don’t need to keep multiple backups, then it’s overkill. Tar is after all a [T]ape [AR]chiver not a backup utility. Archives aren’t the same thing as backups.
Rsync is so sweet AND fast.