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 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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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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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 [closed]
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 ...
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ASCII number showed instead of letters after using file backup manager
I used File Backup Manager to back up files but now I can't restore files because of this error:
Mon Jan 28 17:32:39 2013: Starting restore operation from '/media/andy/A280-E3FF/hudba'
Mon Jan 28 ...
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Creating Ubuntu partition image [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Best way to clone an installation (copying to identical hardware)
Best way to backup all settings, list of installed packages, tweaks, etc?
I've finally FINALLY set up ...
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Are there any known issues with Deja-Dup and Ubuntu One; notebly on restore?
Aloha,
I am planning a backup routine. I am thinking of using Deja-Dup and placing the backup in the default Ubuntu One folder. A while back I was making rsync backups and ran into problem when ...
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Does Gparted do a True Bit by Bit partition copy
I know this isn't ubuntu specific but since it's linux I was hoping somebody here could answer this question, since I used the 6 questions a day limit on superuser.
Does gparted do a true partition ...
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How to create a complete backup ISO to an external hard drive?
I have seen many pages showing different ways to backup my HDD but I want to create an ISO of my current HDD and move it to my external HDD all in one step. I used this code:
dd if=/dev/sda ...
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Can I restore backup made using Ubuntu to a new operating system?
I have backed up some contents of my home directory to a USB hard drive using Ubuntu's built-in backup program.
Is it possible to perform a clean installation of Ubuntu, then restore the contents of ...
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Can I delete incremental backups made with Déjà Dup?
After using Déjà Dup for a while, I keep getting this error after every attempt at a backup:
Backup location is too small. Try using one with more space.
Could I delete some backups made of ...
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How can I set Déjà Dup to keep backups for less than six months?
Déjà Dup allows me to choose whether to keep backups for six months, a year, or forever.
How do I choose to keep backups for less than six months, say, three months, or even more?
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How often does Déjà Dup backup using “automatic backups” setting?
I have turned on "automatic backups" using Déjà Dup:
How often will Déjà Dup make a backup now? Is it once a day? The help documentation doesn't say.
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How can I integrate Mega into Ubuntu? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a Ubuntu version of mega [mega.co.nz] client?
Any plugins I can use that might help until Mega makes a client for Ubuntu?
I'm running 12.04 so the ...
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If I use DejaDup to backup to alternating destinations, will its incremental features still work?
The use case is this: I have two USB hard drives. Suppose one lives off-site, and another I keep at my desk. It's likely that one disk will get daily backups, the other weekly or monthly.
If I ...
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Do I need backup when there is Ubuntu One?
I am finding the information confusing. Deja Dup Backup is running but delivering error messages about not enough storage space. There are only 2.6 Gb of files in Ubuntu One and the limit is 5 Gb. ...
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How can I specify the hour at which my daily schedule of the DejaVu backup tool should run?
How can I specify the hour at which my daily schedule of the DejaVu backup tool should run?
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Automatic differential backup solution for lucid-server? [closed]
I just have 1GB backup space on a ftp host. i need to automatically backup my server if any file has been changed.
on this page i found some packages, but which is better for server?
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How to create an image of my ubuntu 12.10
Hi last week I installed ubuntu 12.10 on my laptop and Today I have my system more or less configure as I like.
I would like to know how can I create an image of the system that can use to install ...
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How can I back up my boot drive?
I am running XBMC on an Ubuntu minimal install. There is no desktop environment installed. Is there a way I can clone my boot drive to a USB drive so that it can be restored at a later date if needed?
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Backup and restore mailboxes
I need to backup all mailboxes on existing Ubuntu Server 10.10 installation and then recover them back on Debian 6.
Is it possible? How to achieve this?
I do believe that all mail is managed by ...
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Best system backup solution for ubuntu 12.10? [duplicate]
I was windows user for a long time and recently switched to Ubuntu. I was using acronis to continuously backup my system on windows. My HDD structure looke like that
As you see my /home is already ...
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restoring backups with duplicity
I backed up my /Home folder to an external hard drive and now I'm trying to restore it on a fresh install. When I try to restore with Deja Dup, it takes about 15 seconds then says it was successful. ...
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Ubuntu “lightweight” backup solution [duplicate]
What I love on iOS is, system always backs up following things:
Applications that you installed (not app itself but link to appstore)
Apps' configuration files and saved data
Whole system ...
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Automatic incremental backups to an encrypted external hard disk
What is the best way to do automatic incremental backups (and if possible to store more than a single version of the same file) to an external usb hard disk with full hard disk encryption?
I don't ...
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accidentally deleted *some* of /var, but have an old backup, how can I fix this?
I'm on 12.04LTS.
I had an old OS disk mounted at /media/backup/, and I was converting it to use as a backup disk. I accidentally ran sudo rm -rf /var/ rather than sudo rm -rf var/, and deleted some ...
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Tried to use deja-dup for backup, but it give the following error(UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii')
Is there a way to find the filenames that is causing this error?
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1404, in
with_tempdir(main)
File "/usr/bin/duplicity", ...
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How can I restore my Evolution mail in 12.10?
Evolution mail in 12.10 will not restore my emails from 10.10.
The Error message is:
Invalid Evolution backup file
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Cloud backup with specific requirements
First of all, I'm aware of threads like Comparison of backup tools.
With that in mind, I have a specific set of requirements for backup, and I was wondering which are the current options - the ...
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Fastest way to backup a single file?
I want to quickly create a backup of a file, by creating a duplicate with a '~' at the end, in terminal. Is there any straight forward single command way of doing this?
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duplicate truecrypt drive
How would I go about duplicating a truecrypt hard drive for redundancy purposes?
I have lots of original video content, which I store on encrypted drives. And wanted to know the best way to create ...
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Use clonezilla without booting from the clonezilla live cd?
I have two hard drives, /dev/sda and /dev/sda. Predictably, I boot from sda. When I boot from the clonezilla live cd and go through the wizard to make a backup image, it tells me that I can use a ...
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Is it possible to restore a system using an archive file?
I am having compressed file for / (root) of Ubuntu OS. It contains all subdirectories except /media. Is it possible to restore the system using that archive file? (I've tried just unpacking archive, ...
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Backup error-Cannot convert float NaN to integer
Hi my name is Jim Simoni,
First -I am trying to use ubuntu one backup but when I try to log in I get this error message and it keep trying to load.
Cannot convert float NaN to integer
I an using a ...
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can Déjà Dup backup all the applications?
Déjà Dup backup usually backups the home folder. Is there anyway that it would backup my whole system(Including all the applications)? How can I do that? Suppose if my system crashes and I had to ...
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List of folders being synchronised on Ubuntu One
I think Ubuntu One is syncing my backup folder (deja-dup). I'm concerned this could be a problem should a file become corrupted, and I need to retrieve it. Is there some way I can see a list of ...
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Make clone of OS and restore when I want [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Best way to clone an installation (copying to identical hardware)
I am wondering if there is some tool or program that can allow me to make copy of partition 1:1(or only ...
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How to set up an rsync backup to Ubuntu securely?
I have been following various other tutorials and blog posts on setting up a Ubuntu machine as a backup "server" (I'll call it a server, but it's just running Ubuntu desktop) that I push new files to ...
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Ubunbu One - safe recovery of backups
during the years, I've had computer crashes. Right now I am too scared letting synchronization and its systematic recover the precedent 3 computers backup from Ubuntu One cloud. I would like to ...
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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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Automated package build service
I´m using Bacula for backuping my servers and clients, but the versions of bacula in the official repository are very old. So I compiled and installed all the components by myself.
But that was very ...
