I need a backup solution

[Chess007]

I have a 10 gig xubuntu box. I want to back up the entire hard drive. What are my options? I can't backup over the network, because I have no NAS. I do have a cd burner. 10 gig's = about 30 cd's (by my rough calculations.) Could I back it up via the cd burner? Is there a way to image the hard drive (to cds) then restore it from those cd's? Any other suggestions are also welcome.

[kvrprasad]

Hi,

Have you tried SBackup..... If not i suppose you can give a try. Here the link

http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/SBackup-Download-4630.html

Hopefully it resolves your issue.

[saikee]

It would be a dead simple solution if you can get an external hard disk and hook it up to a USB port.

[ph34r]

Get a list of your installed packages, back up /etc, and back up /home

No need ot back up your libs directories, the bin/sbin directories, etc. since you'll get all that back when you reinstall

[Chess007]

I have no usb hard drives. So, this seems like a good solution. :)

http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page

Thanks. :)

[psych-major]

I have no usb hard drives. So, this seems like a good solution. :)On this note, if you can get your hands on a second IDE hard drive you can temporarily connect it as a slave inside you system. Then use partimage to back up to that...