[Novices] Backing up Linux

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> Up till now, my Fedora Core 3 system has been pretty
> experimental, in the sense that I really didn't know
> what I wanted out of my system, so I installed the
> standard tools and apps and tweaked and tweaked till
> everything worked.  Now that I've got things how I
> like them, it's time to start backing things up, just
> in case the worst should happen.  
> So, I have two questions.  First, what should I back
> up?  I know all my settings are in /home/steve and all
> my config files are in /etc...any others I need to
> know about?  (simply copying the entire hard drive,
> though probably ideal, is not an option right now)

I'd recommend -

star -cv H=exustar bs=8k fs=64m f={backupdeviceorfile} /home /etc
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