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I am looking for advice on what to make a backup of, before handing out my computer for repair work and how to do that for my Linux SUSE 10.1 installation and programs running thereon.<br />
While I am saving all my daily work on a separate partition and backing it up daily, I never make complete backups of things like my e-mail program Evolution and all the e-mails stored, my internet settings etc. How do I best go about this? And now can I test whether I may retrieve it?
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I am looking for advice on what to make a backup of, before handing out my computer for repair work and how to do that for my Linux SUSE 10.1 installation and programs running thereon.
While I am saving all my daily work on a separate partition and backing it up daily, I never make complete backups of things like my e-mail program Evolution and all the e-mails stored, my internet settings etc. How do I best go about this? And now can I test whether I may retrieve it?

Complete Backup and Retrieval

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