[ubuntu-uk] Preparing my Server for Gutsy - help

[Mark Allison]

Hi,

I posted this on the Ubuntu forums, but no replies. I wonder if you
guys have any ideas?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=565302

Text of post:

Hi there,

I want to upgrade to Gutsy when it is released on my Ubuntu Feisty
headless server. What I'd like to do is to take an image of my server
and put it on my Feisty laptop and run the upgrade there as a test to
see what breaks. Or maybe have a cloned image on the server (my
preferred choice) and run the upgrade on an isolated partition.

 What's the best way to go about backing up my Ubuntu server and
testing the upgrade before doing it for real? I don't want to do it
blind.

 Server is currently partitioned as

 hda1:
 /  -- 30GB
 /home -- 45GB

 sda1:
 /var/lib/backuppc -- 500GB