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usually, you can reinstall the relevant pkgs, and pkg manager(apt, rpm, portage) would set configure files for you you may back up the whole folder /etc, so you can look up config files from backup you may back up the whole / partition with tools like partimage, so you can restore everything later (from a livecd) [quote=hailer]Hi forum i m a new linux convert and i have been messing around in terminal using online manuals, The thing is that i need to backup all configuration settings so that i can explore linux with terminal and restore the settings back if i mess my system. Are there commands that i can use to backup the settings and how can i boot into terminal to restore the settings if i mess up.[/quote]