Typicially X running WindowMaker. Most of the stuff I
do I do from ATerms (another XTerm).
Typicially the only thing I backup is code that I write
-- usually do it with CVS and tar up the CVS repository
and upload it to other hosts accross the 'net.
KDE for window manager, although I hate it's built-in
applications and use gnome/ximian for that.
My machine is a raid 10 (two drives striped, mirrored
to another identicial set). I also tarball my /home
over a ssh tunnel to a remote machine for the data
backup.
I prefer KDE, as shipped w/ Redhat 7.2. No idea what
window manager it's running on - the default one.
For home I use disk-to-disk copies for backup. On
actual servers I really like Arcserve (the backup
server runs on NT & handles Netware, Linux and all
flavors of Windows servers).
1. kde
2. cp -a /etc /mnt/elephant/{systemname}/etc
2b. Repeat 2 as necessary for desired directories (/home/certainusers)
Elephant being a Quantum SnapServer 4100