backing up

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:48:57 -0400 scott.blair at gmail.com,         "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> What directories should I include in my back up. I included all
> but proc and tmp files, when I went to restore it stopped when
> it hit the kernal restore. 

You probably should not do a restore to the current live system, if what you 
want to do is restore the full system.  Normally that sort of restore would be 
to a 'scratch' disk, that is a secondary drive mounted as a data disk.  (Or 
you would run such a restore from a live-cd/dvd or live-usb system and then 
re-install GRUB in the MBR to make a bootable disk.)

If you just want to backup your *personal* files, then you only need to backup
under /home. Just about everything else is part of the normal install (except
if you have locally built programs installed under /usr/local or /opt, etc.
which you would possibly backup separately or re-build/re-install or
something). Note: configuration files generally live under /etc, so backing up
that in anticapation of a wipe and re-install makes sense.


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