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I already searched a bit around the answers here, but nothing satisfied me.
I want a back-up solution that makes a total back-up, so that I can restore my Ubuntu system in case of major failures, like HDD failing.



As far as I can see, I have 2 choices:




  1. Backing up with Deja Dup to an external disk. This is fine and I am already doing it, but in case my HDD fails, and I make a new Ubuntu install on a new disk, will Deja Dup be able to restore all my settings and stuff from the backed up files? If it can, then what other files/folders should I add in Deja Dup to back-up? Currently I have set only the recommended /home folder. Is there a point in telling Deja Dup to back-up everything under "/" ?


  2. Disk/partition cloning software. This would be something similar to Norton ghost. Is there software like this with a nice GUI that you could recommend for Ubuntu? And even better, it would be nice if Ubuntu's liveCD could recognize such a clone at install step.




I am using 11.10.


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I hope you have lots of free space, and that free space is
highly available. In a Debian system, you really only need to
back up what's in /home and perhaps /etc. Then you can get
a list of all packages installed like so:



dpkg --get-selections > installed-software


and to restore:



dpkg --set-selections < installed-software && dselect


Deja-dup, or just using duplicity directly should suit
your needs and save you a ton of space compared to
saving binary copies of your HD. It'll be faster too.



6/19/2013
I've written detailed instructions on how to automate duplicity (crontab) and
use passphrase protected gpg encryption.




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