[techie4fun]

I'm slightly confused here. Trying to make a backup of my current partition with Linux Mint on ex3fs and it tells me that I have to have a file to save the image to: Image file to create, use. It won't let me just save to a directory. it requires some file. So I can't just save the image in my "home/documents" directory because there's no file to save it to. The main window is as follows:

Partition to save/restore

select path /root_________________


and then there's a bunch of different things listed

.xinitrc
xserver.cfg
.zcomp and the list go on forever

If i knew it was going to be this confusing I would've just used True Image.

[Evildave]

Well, for one thing, you can't backup a partition onto the same partition. Mounting external storage is best for this.

Mint is similar to Ubuntu, so this should help.
http://ubuntuforums....ad.php?t=287522

Or try Clonezilla. It should be a little easier. Just burn a 'live' CD of it, since if you really need the restore, your computer probably isn't booting.
http://www.avsforum....d.php?t=1237128