Backup is the activity of copying files or databases so that they will be preserved in case of equipment failure or other catastrophe. This tag covers restoring from backup as well.
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How do I use Ubuntu One to keep backup files online? [duplicate]
If I upload a file and I want it to remain on server, yet delete it from my computer. How can I do that? I want to access the file over internet only! I am thinking about mails or drafts. Or something ...
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How to get back to windows after install Ubuntu in the same partition?
I have two partition on my system. On one partition, I keep my data, and on other I install my OS.
By mistake, I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on the drive I had installed Windows. Now I need to get back ...
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Deja Dup restore error Help Please
I'm running Ubuntu 12.10
Intel i5
8Gb
1TB
Gigabyte MB
I have backed up all my data(Home folder only) to an external HDD. Today, after a fresh OS install with the same version of Ubuntu, I can't ...
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restore, refresh, or reset your PC like Windows 8
In Windows 8 there are the options to restore, refresh or reset your PC.
restore: "If you think an app or driver that you recently installed caused problems with your PC, you can restore it back to ...
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Upgrade by restoring back up
I am upgrading my ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10, and my question is, after upgrading ubuntu, if i make back up of 12.10 then install 12.04 again and then if i restore the backup, will 12.04 upgrade to 12.10?
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What exactly does Backup store?
I just go by default backup. Therefore, after reinstalling Ubuntu 12.04, I restored the backup, expecting megabytes of LibreOffice Writer files to show up on my desktop. They never appeared after ...
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1:1 Backup of System on USB Thumb Drive
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 from a USB drive to a USB drive (16 GB) and configured it to my needs. Now I'd like to have a 1:1 backup of the system on the USB drive and was wondering on how to accomplish ...
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How can I run a script before Deja-dup back up starts?
I have set up a perforce server and now want to run deja-dup back up to back the server up.
The problem is that before the back up starts, I have to run a script to make a check point on perforce ...
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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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Why do I get an “Operation not permitted” error when running duplicity as sudo?
Currently I'm backing up my /home/ folder to a usb mounted on /media/liamzebedee/X using duplicity. When I go to restore the folder to the USB however (using sudo), I get the error -
Error ...
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Back up using cron job and rsync
I wanna do a backup for my ESXI 5.1 using cron job and rsync ad I didn't find a clear steps.
Could you please show a way to do it?
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How to make Ubuntu backups readable on Windows
I want to backup my files in Ubuntu 12.04 to an external drive in a way that they are accessible from my wife's computer which is not Ubuntu, it's Windows. How do I do that? I don't want any ...
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How to create a image backup of the Ubuntu server [duplicate]
I'm looking for a method to do system image backup on Ubuntu Server, such as AIX mksysb command, which allow us to boot the system from tape or DVD in order to restore the operating system and its ...
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Copying a Back in Time backup to an NTFS partition
Because I'm using a laptop, I've set up Back in Time to back up to a folder stored on my only hard disk, /backup. I'd like to once in a while copy that backup folder onto an external USB hard drive, ...
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Bash script not executing from crontab [duplicate]
I have the following bash script:
#!/bin/bash
mysqldump -u ******** -p******** --all-databases | gzip > /home/srvlinux01/MySQLBackups/database_$(date +\%Y-\%m-\%d).sql.gz
which is located in ...
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How can I back-up my Home without including previous back-ups?
I'm trying to create a backup of my home directory, but I want to exclude any previous backups that have been made already.
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Backup of ubuntu 12.10 from windows
I have installed ubuntu 12.10 from wubi in windows 7.
Now I want to format my system. And again install both.
So, how I can backup my ubuntu updates and restore them later??
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How do I make a disc image with all files and apps? [duplicate]
Ok, I wiped my HD, installed 12.04, installed all my apps, music, etc and have my OS exactly where I want it and would like to make an exact bootable image of everything to a 32G thumb drive so that I ...
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“error: unknown filesystem grub rescue” rescuing my old backup
I'm not working with Ubuntu any more, but I figured since my uninstalling Ubuntu caused this, I figured the community could help me.
Ubuntu 32-bit was not working in multiple areas for me, and I ...
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How to recover encrypted deja-dup backup from new install?
I have a backup of my documents stored in the Ubuntu One cloud. I used the default deja-dup backup application and I have enabled encyption.
I was running Ubuntu 13.04 daily build but as the school ...
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backing up an ubuntu partition by tar
I read an guide online that backs up an ubuntu partition by using tar to pack everything in the file structure, I just wonder is that going work? If i replace my file structure with the backup tar, is ...
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How can I see which set of backups Déjà-Dup has already saved?
I've been using Déjà-dup for a while with good moments and bad moments (backup failed to complete for some unknown reason, there is already a bug report for this).
So, I would like to check which ...
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Backup Ubuntu (or any Linux) Software Configuration
I'm sure for the Linux pros out there there is a really obvious way of doing this, but is there an easy way to backup an Ubuntu software configuration, essentially as a distribution?
To clarify, I ...
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Comparing Disk/Partition/OS Cloning/Backup Tools
It seems the tools used by most people to make a backup of their system and restore the whole disk or partition and also to copy their system to another machine are:
Clonezilla ...
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Installed ubuntu 12.04 with wubi.exe ,backup whole ubuntu 12.04 [duplicate]
So as the question stated,
now I'm dual boot my laptop with window 7 and ubuntu 12.04.
Currently, I need to upgrade/reinstall my window 7 to window 8. But,I have to backup all my stuff in my ubuntu ...
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Problems running Deja Dup with elevated priveleges
As advised by this answer, I'm using
gksu deja-dup-preferences
and
gksu "deja-dup --backup"
to backup my data, including files that have root-only permissions on them.
Both of the two ways lead ...
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Simple Backup App appears twice in Dashboard
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 and wanted to set up a backup and restore program. Deja Dup repeatedly fails to work so I installed Simple Backup. This seems to work but the app is shown twice in Dashboard, ...
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sync failure with Unison
I have set up my harddrive with three logical drives: /,/home and /media/backup. My intent was to store all my documents on the /home drive (folder) and to backup this drive to the /media/backup ...
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What causes the “back up” application to fail? [closed]
The backup application "fails." I just copied the following:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1412, in <module>
with_tempdir(main)
File ...
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rsync remove old backup on remote PC
Good day
I use this script to backup my home PC to remote PC
#!/bin/bash
#Todays date in ISO-8601 format:
DAY0=`date -I`
#Yesterdays date in ISO-8601 format:
DAY1=`date -I -d "1 day ago"`
#The ...
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Recommendations for restoring accounts after replacing a disk drive?
Several of our development servers have flaky SSDs that need to be replaced. The machines are still usable, but we see lots of errors in dmesg, and every once in a while they need to be rebooted ...
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Dell laptop battery backup 1.30 hours only with Ubuntu 12.04. How can the battery backup be increased?
Dell laptop
Model: N5110 (Inspiron 15R)
Display: 15.6"
Battery: 6 cell
Graphics: NVidia GeForce 525M 1GB (No driver for Ubuntu), Working on Intel Graphics 1GB
OS: Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) 64 bit
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How add additional harddrives for Backuppc?
How do i add additional harddrives for Backup using Backuppc?
Note: Currently we have added 1 HDD of 300 GB which is going to get full. We need to add one more HDD to make backup a smooth one. How do ...
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Recover encrypted data after reinstall
I couldn't remember the password that I've used for so many weeks, and changed it in recovery mode but for many reasons I decided to reinstall Ubuntu 12.10 with my seperate /home folder intact and ...
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Restore dual boot disk with clonezilla & grub repair
I have a dual boot system with first Windows Vista installed (ntfs partition) and then Ubuntu 12.04 (ext4 partition). I take full back up of it with clonezilla live, with full disk image.
disk ...
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How to set up directory backup?
I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed running a LAMP stack for a small site I host. I need to set up a system for weekly backups of the /var/www directory where all of my sites are. What is the best possible ...
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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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Backup recovery partition of windows 8 in GPT
My friend have acer Laptop which had windows 8 pre installed and a recovery partition(SDA 7). He want to use only windows 8 but wants to make a backup of his recovery partition(sda 7) since "recovery ...
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Restore VPN connections from Ubuntu backup
I installed Ubuntu on a new HDD and have the old HDD connected.
On my old installation, I had two VPN connections which were a bear to setup the first time and I don't remember the tricks I had to do ...
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Insufficient privileges when piping with sudo [duplicate]
I'me using ubuntu 12.04 lts on usb live stick for backup purposes of my ubuntu hd-installation before updating system. The backup usb-hdd is automounted when hotpluged, it gets something like ...
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How do I restore the default permission on a directory/folder?
I am using ubuntu 10.04,I need to give execute permission in www folder.But by mistake i gave execute permission in whole var folder.sudo chmod -R 777 /varThen i try to change it into normal ...
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Failing backup, Ubuntu 12.04
after I installed Ubuntu 12.04, my automatic backup hasn't been working. I get that it failed with an unknown error, and the following output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File ...
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root cron job not running
I am trying to configure automysqlbackup to run via a cronjob to backup my dbs nightly.
When I execute sudo automysqlbackup from a terminal, the process executes as expected and creates the backup ...
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Deja-Dup Backup Failed - Invalid data - SHA 1 hash mismatch for file
On my most recent weekly backup today, Deja-Dup gave me this little love note:
Backup Failed
Invalid data - SHA1 hash mismatch for file:
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Ubuntu filesystem backup
I am using ubuntu 12.10. If I backup my filesystem using Deja Dup, will it contain the settings and software packages ? I mean, if I restore the system using the backup, will the system come back to ...
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Backup, Sync, and mirror app
On Windows I used Zback for
backing up some directories to a networked drive (i.e, copying all new files from source to target)
Keeping a mirror of some directories on a networked drive (i.e, ...
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Continuous synchronization
I am new to Linux so forgive my ignorance. I am looking to set up a mirror of my data drive. It contains photos, music and my backups from the various PC's in the home. I use a standard 12.10 desktop ...
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What to select to back up from my system
I am using Déjà Dup and trying to back it up so i can try install a legacy driver and in case the install fails I can just restore.
Tried Nepomuk but I dont understand not one bit of how it works so ...
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How to create an image of an entire remote system for using on other (virtual) remote machines?
I have ordered several virtual machines from a hosting provider, which all need exactly the same setup:
same users
same programs installed
same config (except for hostname) including cron-jobs
Is ...
