Linux System Backup

710 is required. Back up the data first.

Original
Http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT2280165098.html

Http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO/index.html

To sum up

File to be backed up:

• Personal Documents: generally stored on the desktop, and under the Home Directory
• Table 1
  

  Documents or programs	Directory	Description
  Document	~/Documents, ~/My Documents, ~/Desktop, ~/, others	It is generally a personal document.
  Programs and scripts	~/bin	In my habits, some users have some script programs or program links in this directory.
  Kmail(Email)	~/.kde/share/apps/kmail	Program settings
  Evolution(Email, contacts, addresses, calendar, to-do)	~/.evolution
  Thunderbird(Email)	~/.thunderbird
  Gnucash(Financial)	Any	The setting directories of these two programs are specified by the user.
  Kmymoney(Financial)
  Korganizer (Calendar/To-Do)	~/.kde/share/apps/korganizer	Program settings
  Sunbird(Calendar/To-Do)	~/.mozilla/sunbird
  Kaddressbook(Contacts)	~/.kde/share/apps/kabc	Program settings
  Knotes(Sticky notes)	~/.kde/share/apps/knotes	Program settings

• Software settings: such as Firefox and Thunderbird. A list
• Table 2
  

  .bashrc, .bash_profile (if you've customized them)	.eclipse	.emacs	.fonts.conf
  .gaim	.gconf	.gconfd	.gimp*
  .gnome	.gnome2	.gnucash	.gnupg
  .gtk-bookmarks	.kde	.local	.lpoptions
  .mozilla (has settings for Mozilla, Firefox, and Sunbird)	.mplayer	.ooo*, .OpenOffice*, .openoffice*, or OpenOffice*	.profile (if you've customized it)
  .realplayerrc	.spamassassin	.ssh	.viminfo
  .Xauthority	.xemacs	.xine	.xinitrc
  .Xmodmap

• System settings
• /Etc directory. for the data to be backed up, select the file to be backed up.
• /Var, no
• /Boot, with grup startup settings
• For software already installed, I usually make a log, which software is installed and installed again?