[xubuntu-users] Bls: Xubuntu 11.04 upgrade

[bizdev at pwnspeak.com]

> which backup ? any method can you sugest ?
>

Depends on the customizations you made.  If only personal things, then 
just backup your home directory with tar.  However if you messed with 
configs outside, then backup /etc or whatever you changed.  However, if 
you really need to be sure, use tar or rsync to backup your entire drive 
to another drive, or to a directory you are not backing up.

For instance, when backing up an entire system, I used the below values 
in my --exclude-from file in rsync:

/sys/
/dev/
/proc/
/media/
.gvfs/

With this sort of setup, you could `rsync -a --exclude-from=ex / 
/media/backup/` or something similar, since /media isn't being backed up.

Tim