Understanding backup options?

[josch]

Hey,

as I've only made use of the backup /home option yet, I can't tell you more about the others.
But because you are still waiting for an answer, i want to share at least how I handle the backup/restore thing:

If you have your Xbian system fully configured and all your favorite additional packages installed, creating
a full sd card image is a good way for backing up. I do it this way for myself too. After this point I don't
change anything on the system itself, all programs that I use, do save their data into /home/xbian.
So no matter if I change XBMC settings, add movies to the library, reconfigure pyLoad, or something
else - to backup my home dir is enough to keep all my changes/data.

So all I have to do for a full restore, is to write the image to the sd card, connect straight via SSH
(because wifi is already set up) and restore my home dir. It doesn't take any real time effort.
And if I did (rarely) some more changes to the system, I just create a new sd card image in 5min.

If you have the same usecase as me, I can recommend this method as I never had any problems with it.