@mchlbk

My reply is a bit late but I just saw the posting today.

Linux has something called a cron that can be set to periodically run at certain times of the day/week/whenever.

It's actually much easier than system restore and more reliable to setup a job in the cron to just run once a week or so and capture your " / " partition files to a tarball (.tar) file and save them to another partition or external device.

See this website here:  http://www.linuxhelp.net/guides/cron/

 Good luck!

Chris