

Easy the same thing you use to backup/compress everything else TAR. "What should I use to backup my system then?" might you ask.

Ext3, the default Ubuntu partition, is seen by Ghost as a damaged ext2 partition and does a very good job at screwing up your data. In fact using Ghost might be a very bad idea if you are using anything but ext2. There's no need to use programs like Ghost to create backups of your Ubuntu system (or any Linux system, for that matter). Well, I'm here to tell you that those things, just like rebooting, are Windows CrazyThings (tm). This is impossible because in Windows, there are lots of files you can't copy or overwrite while they are being used, and therefore you needed specialized software to handle this.

For Windows you would need proprietary software for which you would have to reboot your machine and boot into a special environment in which you could perform the backing-up/restoring (programs like Norton Ghost).ĭuring that time you might have wondered why it wasn't possible to just add the whole c:\ to a big zip-file. During that time you might have needed to backup and restore your system. Most of you have probably used Windows before you started using Ubuntu. Hi, and welcome to the Heliode guide to successful backing-up and restoring of a Linux system! More recent up to date information this tutorial deals with can be found on the Ubuntu Wiki
