Ok. So after my post yesterday I started having some trouble. TestDisk did a create job recovering the partition table and I could access my Ubuntu partitions just fine. Unfortunately something happened with my windows partition that made it in-accessible. It wasn't a big deal since the only thing I have on there is World of Warcraft. I decided to backup my ubuntu files, clean my partition table, and re-install. I started up a live cd and ran a command to create a tar.gz from my home directory over a samba share (to my windows machine.)

Everything seemed to be fine, I don't remember any errors. Unfortunately it didn't hit me that my 4 gig home directory ended up being a 2 gig file. Well. Needless to say once I REFORMATTED and reinstalled that my archive didn't work properly. Once again losing data for simply being awesome. This has prompted me to look up some type of backup solutions. I'd prefer some type of GUI but I'm not sure that a good one exists for linux. What I have run onto so far is rsync, rdiff-backup, and rsnapshot. I used to use dar but I really didn't like the fact that I couldn't open up the archive in file-roller. Once I get my system back up and running I'm going to try a few of these out. One of my hurdles is that I will need to backup through the network (or internet) to a samba share on an NTFS drive.