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Why Ubuntu 13.04 doesn't recognize my external HDD?

I just installed Ubuntu 13.04, a clean installation, and everything seems to be running OK, at least in the last 2 hours that I have tried except for one thing... when i tried to restore my data from ...
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Copy speeds drop down all the time?

I use Ubuntu 12.04. I have a good PC , a Dell XPS, with 8 GB of memory and a 1TB HDD and an i5 processor. When I copy files internally (to and from the internal HDD), nautilus initially shows speeds ...
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Is possible to back up files to two different hard disks at the same time?

Is there any way using the luckyBackup application to backup the same directories and files to two different USB hard disks in the same task, instead of adding two different tasks? It will speed up a ...
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Size of / partition? [duplicate]

So, I decided I really need a seperate /home, since I never upgrade Ubuntu and always do a clean install etc, and I'm getting to a point where my data is becoming WAY too large for simple backups. ...
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How to make a backup of Ubuntu 12.04 full OS

How to make a complete operating system backup of Ubuntu without anything missing, to switch it to a different hard drive? A complete personal usable backup without using untrusted software, exactly ...
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Copy Recovery partition using Ubuntu

I have a dell computer and I will be DBAN ing the HDD because it has a bad sector on it that is slowing down the system. So I am wanting to copy the Recovery Partition to an image or another HDD. I ...
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Iso size versus Disk size

Hi guys I have a curiosity. Some days ago I installed an ubuntu on a flash disk. Then I took an image of its ext4 and swap area via dd. However, after a while I decided that I should move this ubuntu ...
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how to back up entire windows 7 OS [closed]

how to back up entire windows 7 OS to be used on another drive as if it were a new operating system? For example, to use both Ubuntu and Windows 7, yet have entire Ubuntu partition on the computer and ...
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How to make a backup of windows OS

How to make a complete operating system backup of windows without anything missing, to switch it to a different hard drive? A complete personal usable backup without using untrusted software, exactly ...
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Moving 11.10 complete system to a new bigger Harddisk

I would like to move my current installation of Ubuntu 11.10 to a bigger harddisk, since the old one is failing. I would like to avoid solutions like dd block copying (since there would be unused ...
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Cannot open my external hard drive anymore

I was using it to back up two laptops: an IBM ThinkPad running Xubuntu 11.10 with a Qimo session, and an LG R200 running Ubuntu 11.10. I had previously backed-up both computers, several times using ...
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How to know when a drive failed in RAID1

I want to make sure my backup are safe. I use one main SSD running Ubuntu and I have 2X 2Tb HDD in RAID1 for my data. How to know when a disk fail?
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How does the backup-button works and how can I use this under Ubuntu?

Many external hard drives have a backup-button with a OTB function for backing up stuff. An example is the "Sharkoon Quickstore Portable". So how does this button works? Is there a vendor neutral ...
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How do I copy an existing hard disc to a new one so I can boot off the new disc?

I currently have a failing hard drive which is the only hard drive in the machine. I have just bought a new hard drive to replace it, and my plan is to copy the contents of the old drive onto the new ...
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How do I access an Iomega Network Hard Drive? [closed]

It has many flavors of Linux mentioned in the system requirements, but not Ubuntu. Should that stop us?? I have the 2TB version powered up and into my router. The manual installed from the ...
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input / output error, drives randomly refusing to read / write

I have an issue with one of our servers running Ubuntu 10.04, it is running BackupPC and collects backups from various machines / servers around the building. On the 8th minute (12:08, 12:18, 12:28 ...