backing up my linux system

[Mike Gorse]

It isn't clear from your post what you want or to what medium you're 
backing up (ie, a tape? Another hard disk? A remote machine?)

I'm not sure if I'm recommending this, but I simply have a file in my home 
directory called backup which lists names of files and directories that I 
can't recover.  Every once in a while I run something like
tar -cf mpgbak.tar.bz2 `cat backup`
and copy the resulting file onto another machine where I have an account. 
But I'm not backing up my whole drive this way; only things that I 
consider particularly important, and I am certainly missing some things...

Anyway, there are surely ways of doing this without using the GUI unless 
you want to use the GUI, so I'd certainly recommend exploring whatever 
options people have told you about and anything anyone else might suggest.

-- Mike Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.freeshell.org --

On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, michaelweaver wrote:

> What would anyone suggest for backing up my Linux system which is
> accessible with either Speakup or Orca?
> I know when I was using Ubuntu 6 I tried using Sbackup only I could not
> get past the first screen because speech stopped and I do not know if
> this has improved with the latest versions of Orca although there are
> command lines for the application.
> Someone on the Ubuntu UK list suggested it and also suggested Ubackup.