I have recently set up my laptop for my ubuntu environment. Now that it's the way that I want it, I want to back it up so if something happens, I can wipe the hard drive, re-install Ubuntu from the original CD, then restore from backup to put everything back the way it is.
So here's the list of folders in my root directory of my hard drive.
bin dev initrd.img lib32 media proc sbin sys var
boot etc initrd.img.old lib64 mnt root selinux tmp vmlinuz
cdrom home lib lost+found opt run srv usr vmlinuz.old
I'm thinking the things I need to backup are:
bin
boot
etc
home
initrd.img
lib
lib32
lib64
opt--this is where I install my development tools like eclipse and tomcat
sbin
usr
vmlinuz
Anything else?