Backup, clean install and restore

Posted by Tony Martin on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Tony Martin
Published on 2012-11-08T17:22:11Z Indexed on 2012/11/08 17:23 UTC
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Due to the route I came into Ubuntu I now have 12.10 upgraded from 12.04 on an NTFS file system. I've invested a lot of time getting everything as I want it, vis packages installed and settings, etc. I wonder if there is an easy method of:

1 Backing up the whole system so that I can;

2 Do a squeaky clean install of 12.10 on ext4 with bells and whistles then;

3 Restore my backup so that my system behaves as it did before the reinstall?

Sorry if this seems terribly obvious, but I don't want to find all the problems when it's too late.

TIA.

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