After system didaster how to prepare / save most important data ?

[SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux]

On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 08:55 +0800, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
> Currently I am reading and studying your rsync suggestions and 
> trying to prepare the external USB HDD for it:
> 
> Unfortunately I am facing some errors and problems to get it solved and 
> need little more time to find my wrong-doing ;-|


Hi everybody
I try to prepare an USB external HDD for my data backup.
Already tried a few times either with Ubuntu 7.10 GParted 0.3.3 or 4 !?
without real success !

Intention:
1st prim partition ca 20GB NTFS for M$ WinXPP's Documents and Settings
data
2nd prim partition ca 10GB ext3 for all Ubuntu /home data

I had token a screenshoot of the error message and cannot find it
again !? ;-(
The error message says something like following:


Cannot mount volume ...
... and details describes ...
... mount point cannot contain the following characters:
newline, G_DIR_SEPARATOR (ususally /)  

Without labels the partitions are displayed as: /dev/sdb1 and 2
With labels (GParted 0.3.6) I do name them as LD142uHome resp LD132wData

What am I doing / getting wrong here ?

TIA for your advice, guidance, help, hints and suggestions. ;-)
Cheers, svobi