ubuntu 12, temporary solution

[B. Henry]

What system do you want to back up, i.e. what OS, distro if Linux, a system that is currently installed, or the ubuntu-mate you say you are going to 
install?
Have you installed a lot of extra software beyond what came on the installer image you used?
Is all the extra software you installed in repos, or did you build anything from source or install .deb packages you downloaded?
The short answer if you are talking Linux and did not make a seperate /home directory is to copy your whole /home directory, e.g.  something like 
/home/dan, somewhere. 
I've done this with anormal cp command, or from a file manager, but better would be to use rsync. 
Unless you have done some editing of files in /etc/ most of your settings are in that home directory.

You can then just reinstall the programs you added, and voila.
Answer the questions above and we can give more specifics.
Also, are you talking about reinstalling the system to the same computer where it was installed, or putting it on a different one?
  

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     B.H.
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  Daniel Crone wrote:
Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 11:44:28AM -0500

> I dug out an ubuntu 12 stick, and installed it to my hard drive.
> I know it is old, but I will use it to burn a ubuntu mate disk.
> But in the mean time, is there a way to back up my whole system, so that if I like, I could install it, without having to reconfigure everything?
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