> You can back up your entire home directory found at
> /home/username onto a usb key, DVDs, or an external
> drive. However, you will want to make sure that your
> hidden files are visible.

This brings up a question.

> These files and folders all begin with a dot. To make
> them visible in Nautilus you can either use the menu
> under View or press Ctrl+H. Once you see all of the
> hidden files and folders copy them by copy and paste
> or drag and drop to your back up drive.

If you copy an entire directory (folder) to another
location, do the hidden files not move unless they were
visible at the time of copy? I realize that moving into
the directory/folder and selecting all files will select
only the visible ones and thus Ctrl-C will copy only
those to the buffer. But from outside the directory,
won't the entire folder be duplicated no matter whether
the files inside were visible?