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It sounds like you don't have the GD extension installed. I don't use Ubuntu any longer, but I think it may be named php5-gd,...

How do you install Google Chrome on Ubuntu? Chrome is faster than fast, it is engineered for speed and has the tools to help you...

In the event that something bad happens and you need to restore your WordPress blog from this backup, you could extract the files and replace what you currently have, then import the SQL file into MySQL. This is a full snapshot, not an incremental backup. Conclusion