Hi all fellow AAO owners, both happy and sad,

My initial traumas with Acer's Linpus restore DVD have made me rather paranoid about getting this right, so please excuse this on-the-face-of-it stupid question, because if this process goes tits-up too, someone could get injured as I hurl the computer through the window onto the street below.

Can I treat this machine like I would any other when backing up? Sometimes I use "dd if/of" etc; at other times Clonezilla, always to an external USB drive of some description. Am I safe to do likewise with the AAO, or is this fraught with some obscure, unforseeable risk (like re-installing from scratch with the OEM DVD turns out to be)?

THanks,

CC.

I think restore USB will not help you if you throw your netbook from the window. Now, what is the difference between a netbook and a usual pc while backing-up? Ehmmmmm, emmmm, mmmm. OK , none, if you told us that:"I have a laptop, with no USB, no CD , no Ethernet, only wireless, and I need to backup to an external server, that would copy these to my USB thumb, which would be send with US-mail to my home" we would tell you: YESSSSSSSSSSSS, not with your laptop, but with your USB thumb. So imagine what my answer is. Ok Ok, NO, it will be as harmless as restoring from a not-broken restore DVD, to a not-broken PC. Got it?
Just be sure you dont overheat your netbook by over-using the USB-drive. Better use an external power source, and not the one with USB 2.0.

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Yes, thanks, I'd already considered that and since I have two externally-powered USB disk drives, I'll use one of those, I guess. Either that or an 8Gb stick I have lying around, with a little bit of compression thrown in for the sake of propriety. I can't see a thumb drive drawing too much current. :-)

Nor can I

No disparagement intended, but I note you've shot up from "newbie" to "member" in the matter of just a few short posts, having only registered last month, which is amazing... Congratulations!! :-/

After 30 post you are a member, so it is one post per day, could do much better, and to make it a useful post and not a "short" post. I will ask you what backup tool you are using.
No misunderstanding here, but your name says it all 'completely clueless'
And one more question: Why do you love Linpus so much , to fill several topics with problems, than hanging to a stable one, such as, Ubuntu 8.10?
Sounds weird, but I changed the OS, the second day I bought the netbook.
I hated it so much, that I deleted libpng <--[DONT TRY THIS AT HOME, RESTORE DVD WILL BE NEEDED AFTER!!!] before formatting the hdd.

Just "dd" when it suits me or Clonezilla, depending on the circumstances.

Yup! Clueless by name, Clueless by nature; certainly when it comes to anything to do with Linux!

I don't love Linpus. I've never used it before I bought this Acer AO. But it works well with this netbook. I mean it's FAST. Not my distro of choice, by any means, but suits this little netbook (my computer No.4).

Well you are obviously a techie. I will never be, I'm afraid. My abilities lie in other areas. I'm just cursed to be preoccupied with interests I have no aptitude in! :-(