Ah, here comes a party poo-per 
But zabadabadoo is absolutely right.
@thirteenth_13
Before you do anything to the current perfectly working system, I recommend you to make a whole disk image with either Clonezilla (CUI) or Rescuezilla (GUI).
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hmm i will try then 
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Here comes Zaba-son do do do do, here comes Zaba-son, its alright right. Its been hours since Zaba has been here, he needs to remind us to backup what we have in there. Once its done, it will be alright, dont forget tothank Zaba-son do do do do, its alright. 
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which is the best gui or cui?
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Depends on whether you are comfortable with text only or graphical user interface.
I have been using Linux over 10 years and I prefer Clonezilla myself.
But my family members with less Linux experience prefer Rescuezilla for ease of use. (Besides, Super Tux rockes!)
Rescuezilla is just a GUI skin over the Clonezilla. Both are essentially the same application.
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sorry man im still newbie
then i will try clonezilla, thanks
I think you misread my comment 
I recommended Resuezilla for the beginners.
You could try Clonezilla, but it took me a while to figured that thing out when I was a beginner 10 years ago.... And there was no such thing as GUI version at that time.
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That question has sparked numerous passionate debates.
I do back ups a little differently. I compress the directories I wish to keep. That's it.
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I suppose you do it externally - booting from a live USB to access the drive you wish to save?
I could be wrong but I cannot imagine I back up my entire OS installation while I am running it.
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I took the liberty of mixing different Question and Answer. But the result is true:
I think @FrenchPress advice to use GUI version, from her personal experience, is good for @thirteenth_13 to try first.
I have this mental picture of @Aravisian putting old phone books in a compactor and storing the paper bales.
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You are right!
I forgot he has tools of the trade 
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after backup,all set and ready to enjoy?
In theory, yes.
But if you want to be absolutely sure with an integrity of your back up, you can run a restore operation on the spare SSD/HDD to confirm it.
This is a completely optional step recommended for those cases where the installation is mission critical.
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While running.
Click on ~/.config, ~/Pictures, so on and so on. Compress, then move the compressed file to a back up location. External Drive, SSD, Google-Drive, whatever.
Once this is done, it does not need to be done anymore. That's the problem with many back ups, is you must redo it each and every time.
After that has been done, periodically move changes to the compressed directory to replace the old - with drag and drop.
Let's say I change some documents or make a new document in~/Documents.
I just drag and drop the new doc or revised doc to the compressed directory and it will compress and add it. If I am in a hurry or feeling lazy, I'll just drag and drop all contents.
And since I do this when or as changes are made (Most of the time, anyway), my backups are good to the minute, not to last week or even yesterday.
Lastly, it spares the Bloat of backing up things I do not need or even want to save using a Back Up manager.
I got into this habit when I was new to Zorin and had to wipe and reload a lot after utterly destroying the system experimenting.
Finally, I never recommend backing up Root.
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Came after a lot of conversations I suppose 
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thank you for the help, really helped me, and also added new insights 
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Yet another debate over the backup strategy.
There is more than one way to do it, which means there is no perfect method discovered yet 
Whatever the method you chose I do NOT recommend a built-in backup tool (Daja-Dup) comes with Zorin.
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Actually, there is. Here, I will link you to it:
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