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[Alan Pope]

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On 04/03/12 23:04, William Biggs wrote:
> If I backup my home folder dose that back up the programs I
> installed ?
> 

Generally speaking, no. Software you install via the Ubuntu Software
Centre, Synaptic, apt-get or aptitude are held in locations outside
your home folder. Places like /bin, /usr and /lib will contain files
you have installed. I backup the whole file system on my machines
regularly, rather than just my home directory.

Some people do argue that you probably don't need to do that given the
apps you have installed are probably all in the repository, so you
could reinstall them all in the event of catastrophe.

Cheers,
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Alan Pope
Engineering Manager

Canonical - Product Strategy
+44 (0) 7973 620 164
alan.pope at canonical.com
http://ubuntu.com/
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