On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 9:25 AM, GMS S <gmspro@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi,
Reading this:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=35087
I ran this command from terminal being root

tar cvpzf backup.tgz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/backup.tgz --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/media --exclude=/sys /

You can do this way, but ideally your file system should be unmounted (boot from
a live CD/DVD).

I, personally, use BackupPC for /home and partimage for the file system (/ and /boot).