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Permission is also granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this work under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, version 2.5-Italia, as published by Creative Commons at. Chimera Revo. Informatica Libera Antonio Cantaro. Documentazione/Indice. Backing Up in Ubuntu. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. One of the most frequent questions on the forums is "How do I back up in Ubuntu? " Before I started using Ubuntu, I thought the best method was just to copy and paste files using the file manager (that's one way, of course, but it has its limitations).
I'm going to recommend a few popular methods. This list isn't comprehensive—it just gives you some places to start. Backing Up Personal Filesrsync is what I use for backing up personal files. The most basic way to use rsync is like this (command goes into the terminal): rsync -av /path/to/source/directory /path/to/target/directory For example, let's say your username is alice and you wanted to back up your home directory to your external hard drive that mounts at /media/usbdrive, you would use the command rsync -av /home/alice /media/usbdrive If rsync doesn't seem sophisticated enough for you, you can type man rsync to find more options than just -av.