[ubuntu-za] I want to re install my Ubuntu not upgrade it what is essential to backup

[Nico Michael(iBurst)]

I want to re install my Ubuntu not upgrade it  what is essential to backup

My ubuntu is so unstable that I was considering replacing it with Mint 
Linux but decided that the new Ubuntu is worth the risk of having to do 
this in the future.

Fixing my ubuntu or upgrading it is not an option I want a clean working 
machine again hopefully this will be a better experience than the Nasty 
Narwhal was
upgrading it just gave me hassles with many things breaking
( I could not print , my cups broke, my wifi broke my backup program 
broke  and then my iBurst also broke and that was the cherry on the top)


I have two partitions  disk 0 mounted as /
                                       disk 1 mointed as /data

When I re install Ubuntu I will format dsk 0  but preserve my data on dsk 1

I used to manually backup using :
sudo nautilus  (or something like that) and open two panes (like the 
good old Norton Commander)

I then wrote this shell script to backup key things to my /data partition
I cant remember what the -vp and -avrp do

#!/bin/bash
# backup.sh
sudo cp -avrp /home/nickm/.thunderbird/ /data/A_Backups/
sudo cp -avrp /home/nickm/.mozilla/ /data/A_Backups/
sudo cp -avrp /home/nickm/.Skype/ /data/A_Backups/
sudo cp -avrp /home/nickm/.ssh/ /data/A_Backups/
sudo cp -avrp /home/nickm/.xmind/ /data/A_Backups/
sudo cp -avrp /home/nickm/.ssh/ /data/A_Backups/
sudo cp -vp /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root /data/A_Backups/



What can I backup that I forgot to add to this script? before I 
reinstall my unstable Ubuntu 1204


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Kind Regards

Nico Michael
http://www.arduino.org.za