What would you recommend for a simple back up program?
Ubuntu 10.04 netbook
Backing up to what media? … and what do you want to backup?
Back up to external drive and mainly documents and settings although a full operating system and files would be interesting.
Ubuntu 10.04 netbook on Samsung NC10
Ubuntu 10.10 Toshiba Equium
See:
http://linux.co.uk/2010/06/partition-magic/
and
http://partedmagic.com/
then use Partimage or Clonezilla from the Parted Magic LiveCD to create an image of your hard drive
or
you could just tar (archive) everything:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=35087
or
you could use the dd command to do a disk dump:
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Dd
and
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/ddcommand.htm
Comprehensive reply, many thanks again