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Dejadup backup from FUSE-mounted directory (13.04)
I am trying to use DejaDup (via the Ubuntu backup tool) to back up a FUSE-mounted directory (encfs mounted under home directory) to my NAS via SSH.
DejaDup backs up all other folders in my backup set ...
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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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Unable to mount external hard drive
Basically I my 12.10 update crashed halfway through, so I've had to start again and put all my data onto an external HDD. It was all going fine until this came up :
Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at ...
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Backing up bind mounted folders
My layout is as follows.
LVM Setup: /dev/VG/Documents, /dev/VG/Music, /dev/VG/Pictures, /dev/VG/Music, /dev/VG/Documents, etc....
Each of the LVMs is bind mounted to the corresponding folder name in ...
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Is it possible to sync a folder from NAS drive to Ubuntu One Cloud?
I am running Ubuntu One on Windows 7. I have a Synology DS212+ NAS drive that I would ideally like to back up to my cloud. However, Ubuntu One only allows me to backup from the user documents folder ...
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Is it possible to boot without mounting /home?
I want to backup my /home partition on /dev/sda6 using partclone, a command line utility. To do so, I first have to unmount the partition that I want to backup. Most of the time, this is easy, but ...
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Mount disk (device) image
I made an image of my entire disk with
dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/external_media/sda.img
Now the problem is I'd like to mount an ext4 filesystem that was on that disk but
mount -t ext4 -o loop ...
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How can I create a filesystem “view” of a folder that excludes certain files?
I want to have a path in the filesystem that shows the entire contents of some other path, excluding a few certain files of my choosing. For example, if the following already exists,
original-path
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Keeping multiple root directories in a single partition [closed]
I'm working out a partition scheme for a new install. I'd like to keep the root filesystem fairly small and static, so that I can use LVM snapshots to do backups without having to allocate a ton of ...
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NTFS backup image wont mount
I made an image of my NTFS partition before i formatted, but now it wont mount. I'm pretty sure I've mounted this image before.
root@z:/var/backup# mkdir Storage-disk
root@z:/var/backup# mount ...
