title: Backing Up / Restoring entire Eclipse workspace
body: <p>I got into this learning the Android Operating System. I'm still in learning mode. Along with learning Android, Seems I'm getting a bit of a refresh on Java, and because most of the examples I find expect you to use Eclipse... well I guess I'm also learning Eclipse (This is a good thing, I'm not complaining)... This question is primarily about Eclipse, and how to perform a rudimentary save of my current state.     </p>
  
  <p>I'm running without a Version Control system. Something I will fix once I have a good feel for where I'm going, what I want, and what I need it to do, so for the moment, I'm just looking for some advice on how to save (perhaps quite crudely) my current state of affairs, and be able to restore to that point if I manage to mess up my world.     </p>
  
  <p><strong>Question 1:</strong><br>
  If I just copy my entire workspace to a different location (CD Rom?). and then perform tasks / experiments - on the original workspace (Create new projects, create project from existing sources, deleting projects.... all in the saved workspace) and really manage to trash the workspace, or maybe I just want to go back to my saved point, and try the same things in a different manner.... Will exiting Eclipse, deleting the modified workspace recreating the workspace at the same location, from the CD Rom, and maybe running "Clean All Projects" - safely put me back to my origin saved point?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Question 2:</strong><br>
  If not. What do I need to do, to accomplish something morally enlivenment to this?</p>
  
  <p>Perhaps this is already answered in some web documentation I haven't found. Pointers to a couple of well written web pages may be all I need?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for any advice
  Joe      </p>