[wally_bert]

Started trying Mint recently and like it.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Download and burn a boot disk for a program called Redo Backups. It will make an image of the whole disk where Mint Lives. If a hard drive fails (happened to me once) or you screw up the Mint OS (happened to me once) it WILL save your bacon.

Use an external hard drive to store your images. Or an internal separate slave drive. Boot from the rescue Redo Backups CD and simply overwrite everything. A weekly image will be a necessity in order to get a recent backup.