Could you share your tips for backing up your system so that you can get up and running on a new computer as quickly as possible? I'm talking programs and configuration as well as data.
I want to improve my current setup (Ubuntu, though advice for any platform is great), which is:
Documents and code on Dropbox.
Complete package list (dpkg -l) written to a file also written to my Dropbox folder via a daily cron job. This can be fed back to a fresh installation.
Media - music, videos, photos - backed up to an external hard drive.