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backing up programfiles for restoreing software programs (ex. tomboy, audacity, firefox) after new install of ubuntu (it some times is easier and faster for uesrs to reinstall after a system failure to boot)

Asked by greennerd

My ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 have crashed twice and it required me to reinstall because of not being able to mount the root partition so had no choice. Have now moved the boot table hoping this was some of the cause of the unexpected crashes. But in case of future crashes I have to look at the possibilities to restore my software and its saved projects. Of course after reinstalling the software in the new install if that is required. It would be awesome to have the possibility to just restore the system exactly with programs and so on. Say if you took a extraordinary system+software backup once a month for this purpose. Is it possible to have more than one backup using deja.dup ?

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Michael Terry (mterry) said : 		#1

If you mean, can you have a second backup that backs up different things at different times to a different place from your first backup, no. That's bug 324631, marked Won't Fix currently.

The idea to restore the set of installed packages is bug 324631.

But if you just mean, can Deja Dup make multiple snapshots, one a month, then yes. Each backup attempt by Deja Dup is an incremental backup from the previous one. You can restore from any backup made in the past, not just the latest one.

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