Create USB Restore?

Question to old hats from newbie: now that I've got a more or less stable 9.04 system working, is there a way I can mirror it, data, programmes, settings, and all, to an 8g USB and if need be, reinstall in case of a crash? I've got a AA0, 1.5g, 8SSD. The only nuisance I'd like to get rid of is FireFox starting automatically every time I boot.

 

Easiest way (to explain) is to start with two USB sticks, an empty 8GB stick to hold the image, and a bootable stick with Ubuntu (or any other distro).
1. Boot of the bootable USB stick and open a terminal window.
2. Insert your 8GB USB stick
3. In the terminal window, type sudo blkid -c /dev/null
be sure you've properly identified your SSD (probably /dev/sda)
and your 8GB stick (probably /dev/sdc)
4. dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc bs=1M
if refers to your SSD; of refers to your 8GB stick
5. Once this completes, you have a restorable image of your SSD

To restore, repeat steps 1-3, then: dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/sda bs=1M - this will wipe the SSD and replace the contents with the contents of your 8GB stick.

HTH

 

best method for me:
http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/12/acer ... ackup.html
not only for linpus