linux - backing up data

[Rytron]

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.

 

[tlarkin]

open up terminal, and type man rsync

Then map a network drive and go to town