[QCLUG] I'm a Happy Penguin

[Robert@rm-jones.com]

Hi Everyone, First I would like to thank the people that sent me e-mail to 
help me set up my hard drives.  Your instructions worked great so now I am a 
Very Happy Penguin :-) .  I have Kubuntu set up and it seems to be working 
Great.

I would like to backup my entire system (or at least as much of it as I can) 
so that I don't have to go through setting up everyting again.  It took me 
days.  I wanted to use ARC but when I tried to do so it wouldn't let me write 
to the hard drive.  I was trying to write to my "backup" drive which I am 
the "owner" of.  It wouldn't let me.  The error message indicated that I 
don't have permission to write to that drive.  So, I tried it via a terminal 
and used "sudo arc" and had the same problem.  So I logged in as "root" (yes, 
I know I should never do that but I had to find out if that was the problem) 
and I got the same message.  I have also tried PVBackPack, File-Roller and 
KArchiver.  Same with all of them.  I did get "Keep" to work but I don't 
really care for it.  Does anyone have any idea why I'm having a problem?  I 
would think all of them should be able to write to a disk other than the 
system disk.  I'm reading the book and may have to try a command line if I 
get desperate :-)

Second question is what directories should I backup so if something goes Very 
Wrong I could just load the base system and then copy over the backup files 
and have everything back to where it was when I made the files?  I will 
handle my data, which is on a different drive, as a separate issue and that 
shouldn't be hard.

Thank's for the help.
Bob Jones

P.S. I'm now using Kubuntu for Everything except my Serif software and once I 
learn Gimp and some of the others that may be a thing of the past also.