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I want to install Xenial Xerus as soon as its final release is out but being an Ubuntu noob there's a fine chance that I might mess things up. I want to know if there's a way to back up my current installation so that I could recover it if things go wrong.

Edit: The wifi link wasn't related but this one is.

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Based on this documentation you can use tar to make backup of whole your system in just one command:

sudo tar -cvpzf backup.tar.gz --exclude=/backup.tar.gz --one-file-system /  

It will create backup.tar.gz archive in folder where you are in. You can change destination as you wish (e.g pendrive)

If you have your home on different partition you need to back it up separately, or omit --one-file-system flag and exclude such directries like /proc, /sys, /mnt, /media, /run and /dev


There are also many others tools like rsync or Déjà Dup

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