Kevin Kempter-2 wrote: > > I'm looking for a clean way to backup my laptop in part so before I apply > any > updates I have a clean backup to revert to if needed. > > I have a / and /home filesystems in order to backup before I run a set of > updates from yum I suspect I need to backup / separately this way I dont > need > to restore my 22Gig of documents in /home if an update breaks something. > > I have used a script for some years which is based on rsync. I will attach the file and you can adapt it to your needs if you like it. Note that this sends the backup to a usb drive that is attached to the machine. it is relatively straightforward to adapt it to work across a LAN or also across the internet to push or pull updates to/from remote machines. http://www.nabble.com/file/p21150306/backall%257E backall%7E -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/backup-of-my---filesystem-tp21117673p21150306.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines