Ubuntu – How to make an easy complete full backup, including all configurations

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I want to know how to backup entire applications and configurations of the system and applications, allowing me to exclude some directories.

Must be GUI, bad at command-line (can be a script for periodical automatic quick backups)
Entire directories of my user's files and configurations of system and of applications.
Allow exclusion of some directories, which I have backup manually myself
Automatic, of everyday (customizable to which date, when exactly at which time, allow auto deletions or increment)
Allow restore when I have done a fresh install. (Restoring all files and configurations, almost like the older version.
Fast backup to my external hard drive.

If you need more information please answer.

Best Answer

System Settings > Backup you have many options available, as to which folders to backup, which folders to ignore, where to backup to, including Ubuntu One cloud storage, there's scheduling available, which will regularely do backups for you and many more.

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Backup – What is Safe to Exclude for a Full System Backup?

When I rsync my system to a backup partition, I exclude these:

--exclude=/dev/* \
--exclude=/home/*/.gvfs \
--exclude=/home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*/Cache \
--exclude=/home/*/.cache/chromium \
--exclude=/home/*/.thumbnails \
--exclude=/media/* \
--exclude=/mnt/* \
--exclude=/proc/* \
--exclude=/sys/* \
--exclude=/tmp/* \
--exclude=/home/*/.local/share/Trash \
--exclude=/etc/fstab \
--exclude=/var/run/* \
--exclude=/var/lock/* \
--exclude=/lib/modules/*/volatile/.mounted \
--exclude=/var/cache/apt/archives/* \

This way I am able to boot into the backup partition the same way I can boot to the original one.

So to sum up, I would suggest

not excluding /{dev,proc,media,...} themselves, just their contents
excluding /var/{run,lock}, and especially the big /var/cache/apt/archives/

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Backup – What is Safe to Exclude for a Full System Backup?