Hi,
When I was using xp pro, it was easy to backup installers for applications,games,portable software to an external hard drive; this does not seem to be the case with ubuntu -- is there an easy method to backup all downloaded software,games, etc to an external hard drive in case of your pc crashes/is stolen/lost?

Also just one more thing - if I was to backup everything from linux onto an external hard drive -- I presume that external hard drive would need to be formatted in ext instead of ntfs?

Any adive would be great.

Thank you.

Bye.

There are many different ways to backup your system and your important data.
You can do it yourself -- just mount your external drive or cd and copy your important files and directories using the copy command (cp) .

Do `cp man` (without quotes) for imdepth instructions & options available with cp.

There is also Linux software that has been written to help with backups, like
KDar -- the KDE Disk archiver or others listed on FreshMeat