||<>|| There are many many options for cloning and system backups. Consider this only a brief introduction to the possibilities. == Cloning Installed Software == To replicate your packages selection on another machine (or restore it if re-installing), you can do {{{#!bash aptitude --display-format '%p' search '?installed!?automatic' > ~/my-packages }}} move the file "my-packages" to the other machine, and there type {{{#! sudo xargs aptitude --schedule-only install < my-packages ; sudo aptitude install }}} See also [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReinstallingSamePackages|Reinstalling Same Packages]] == Complete System Imaging == * [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MondoMindi|Mondo Rescue]] * [[http://clonezilla.org|Clonezilla]] * [[http://fogproject.org|FOG]] * [[http://www.remastersys.klikit-linux.com|Remastersys]] * Commercial products like Norton Ghost and Acronis True Image usually handle linux installations fine as well. == Backups == There are many ways to back your system up. * [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem|Backup Up Your System]] has a somewhat disjointed pile of suggestions and options. These are commonly used for large installations/enterprises and can be used for home users as well. * [[http://amanda.zmanda.com/|Amanda]] * [[http://www.bacula.org/|Bacula]] * http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ Rsync based tools are handy, quick and can save space when combined with hard links like * [[http://www.rsnapshot.org/|rsnapshot]] * [[http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/non-gnu/rdiff-backup/|rdiff-backup]] And there are many many more options like these * [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DuplicityBackupHowto|Duplicity]] * [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HomeUserBackup|Home User Backup]] * [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TimeVault|TimeVault]] * [[http://flyback-project.org/|FlyBack]] * [[http://backintime.le-web.org/|Back In Time]] ---- CategoryBackupRecovery