taking backup of running desktop

[Mark Widdicombe]

From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Tapas Mishra [mightydreams at gmail.com]
Sent: 15 October 2010 11:07 AM

>I have a habit of developing device drivers for some reason.I do  use
>a virtualization environment using VirtualBox,Qemu.
>Many a times I have to format my laptop then in such situations
>installing again the previous programs and making same changes to the
>configurations is very painful.
>Is there some way I can make some sort of backup which I just need to
>install on my existing system and get all previous things immediately
>installed without going to install and setting of a lot of other
>applications and settings.
Create a custom live DVD with remastersys.

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