External hard drive for backup.

[David Vincent]

elmo wrote:
> Has anyone used an external hard drive to save a backup copy of an 
> installed ubuntu?
> Is there a partition copier in ubuntu that will copy an entire installed 
> ubuntu partition
> to an external hard drive.so that it may be recopied back to the same 
> computer or another computer ?

gparted/qtparted would do this.  mondoarchive might be worth looking at.

-d