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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Repairing Ubuntu
Situation
I have Ubuntu 12.10 , I have a lot of important files in it. They are about 120GB.
Problem
My Ubuntu Operating System is about to crash.
Crashing Experience
Sometimes ...
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How can I backup Gnome-shell extensions
I'm creating my post-instalation script for my Ubuntu 12.04 LST x64 and I would like to know how can I backup current installed extensions. Can I create own extension package to easy install? Is here ...
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Ghosting Program for Ubuntu 12.10
I am looking to figure out how to set up a mass backup system for a computer network (of about 25) and am looking for a ghosting program that makes an image of the entire system for backup/recovery ...
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Scheduled backup and clone of Ubuntu USB live
I created a USB live with Ubuntu and works just great. However, I would want to know how to master this portable solution.
My first concern is data lose (maybe the stick gets lost, maybe damaged) so ...
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How do I backup system properly?
How do I backup my system so that if I do backup today, tomorrow when I recover it it's totally the same as yesterday?
I mostly care bout system itself, programs and documents are not that important ...
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How to read data from an old mypassport for mac back up I made using lubuntu 12.10
The folders and files are on an external western digital hard drive and it is only showing as text files and (i.e) they are not being recognised, so can't be opened. (unless you count a blank leafpad ...
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Firefox bookmarks in the ubuntu files system
I have accessed my crashed Ubuntu version via live usb trial. Where am supposed to find my former Firefox bookmarks and history files in order to copy and transfer them into a new installation?
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Using my phone as a flash drive [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Creating Ubuntu bootable disk on my phone
Please can anyone tell me if I can use my gs2 as a flash drive??? Instead of a dvd.
Ive followed the instructions and now its ...
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Verify tar backup on an lto5
Is there a terminal command to verify a tar backup on an LTO5 tape. Once I back up all my files I want to be able to view file size and or number of items to verify backup was complete. I do not know ...
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Easy way to install CrashPlan
Is there a .deb file, repo, PPA, or anything to install CrashPlan other than the non-standard install.sh file? I have fish as my shell, and I had to mess around a lot and finally use chsh first ...
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Match Regular Expressions for Exclude List in deja-dup
It appears deja-dup does not accept regular expressions when adding entries via dconf-editor to org.gnome.DejaDup.exclude-list. Is there a solution to allow for regex matching of paths for this ...
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Backup no longer working
Since upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10 backups no longer work (using the default Deja-Dup Backup tool). I always get the message: No space left in ‘/’. (which is NOT the path I backup to).
The preferences ...
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How to make an easy complete full backup, including all configurations?
I want to know how to backup entire applications and configurations of the system and applications, allowing me to exclude some directories.
Must be GUI, bad at command-line (can be a script for ...
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Déjà Dup over SSH - where to enter my login credentials?
I'm trying to make a backup of my folder in my ubuntu 12.10.
I'm using BackUp in system setting using ssh, it can go through preparation file to backup.
but then failed. cannot have permission to ...
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How to obtain a list of installed packages based on a backup?
I have made a backup of my entire computer and I reinstalled the OS right now. I know I should have listed dpkg -l to obtain a list of packages, but I have not done so. I only made a tarball of the ...
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Backup, clean install and restore
Due to the route I came into Ubuntu I now have 12.10 upgraded from 12.04 on an NTFS file system. I've invested a lot of time getting everything as I want it, vis packages installed and settings, etc. ...
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Could it be possible to make a hot copy of a system?
I'd like to backup my system without turning it off. The system clone should also able to run in an other machine.
I've tried to "dd" the entire system partition on another disk, after that I'm ...
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get “failed to read” message when I try to restore my computer from USB backup
I recently backed up my computer (v12.04) with a USB drive. when I tried to restore my files from the USB drive I got this Message.
Failed to read /tmp/duplicity-IDfsCk-tempdir/mktemp-wtwQJl-33: (, ...
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How migrate my keyring (containing ssh passprases, nautilus remote filesystem, pgp passwords) and network manager connections?
I changed the disk on my laptop and installed Ubuntu on the new disk. Old disk had 12.04 upgraded to 12.10 on it. Now I want to copy my old keyring with WiFi passwords, ftp passwords for nautilus ...
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How to partition hard disk to save data during Ubuntu reinstallation
How to partition 160GB hard disk such as whenever I reinstall or upgrade my data on it should be safe such as it shouldn't get deleted?
For example in Windows XP, I have four partitions like c,d,e,f. ...
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Can only connect to file server on second attempt
I have a FreeNas file server on my local network and I usually connect to it from Windows and Ubuntu computers.
Ever since I have upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10 Ubuntu will only connect after a ...
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How do I restore Déjà Dup backups without Déjà Dup?
So I'm trying to restore my backup files with Déjà Dup, however, each time I enter in the correct password, it keeps asking for it over and over again.
This seems to be a bug, and I have found a ...
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Deja Dup Backup to Cd/Dvd Possible or Not?
I started to use Linux/Ubuntu 12.04 last week. I'm a new comer. I liked this O.S. But I have a question which I couldn't find the answer here and by google search.
The question is "Can I get scheduled ...
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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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sbackup fails to connect via ssh when run via sudo
I prefer to run sbackup via sudo to be able to backup other things than my normal user has access to. But sbackup fails to connect to the specified host via ssh when it is run via sudo. It says
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Why does my Ubuntu One backup does not accept the password?
After upgrading to 12.10, backup is no longer working for me. It just does not accept password, thus no backups for me! I have tried resetting the password online, and can login there fine, just not ...
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How to hind installed packages from a non-running machine?
The server I am working on will not boot so I am reinstalling the system on another hard drive. The hard drive on the server is bad but is still accessible. How would I get a list like dpkg from the ...
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Backup torrents for clean install
Tomorrow I'm going to do a clean install of Ubuntu 12.10, since I've been playing with some internals and now my system is quite messy. Everything is prepared, my files backed up and I've already made ...
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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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Does Ubuntu One (U1) HAVE to be synchronised?
I want to upload all my pictures, videos and documents to Ubuntu One and then delete them off my pc and forget about them.
Is this possible?
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Best solution for sharing External HDD
Describing the problem:
Computer A: dual boot Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows7
Computer B: Windows7
External HDD C: on USB, NTFS formated
From computer A I want to make regular back-ups in Ubuntu with ...
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need a different backup solution
I just built a new media/backup server using Ubuntu 12.04 64bit. I installed a hard drive to be used only for music, pictures, and videos and formatted it fat32 so my 1 and only Windows PC could map ...
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How can I make rsync to switch to another harddrive automatically if space on the first one is full?
My problem is, how can I make rsync to switch to another harddrive automatically if space on the first one is full? Is there a simple way? Or even a way without using rsync?
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Files backup utility with incremental backups that would keep backup device clean
I've tested a few of backup utilities and still haven't found one that would satisfy me.
Almost every one of them has two options:
- full backup - not an option to use frequently
- incremental ...
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As a new developer, what files should I backup?
I am facing some problems with current installation of Ubuntu 12.04. I'd like to go for fresh installation of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I don't have a separate partition of Home folder.
I have started ...
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After I backed up my ubuntu 12.04, my system crashed [closed]
Outline:
I use the way shown on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=35087 to backup my linux system, but somehow when I restore it, it crashes.
Problem Description:
When I reboot, there's an ...
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How to run a command within a time duration per min/sec?
I want to run a command/shell script say script.sh from 1AM to 2AM per minute. After observing that crontab can't work it out 'per sec' I had to go with 'per min'.
Basically, My server.sh file takes ...
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Backup /etc/ as normal user Deja Dup?
I want a normal (no sudo) user to be able to backup /etc/ and their home directory using Deja Dup. Currently the home folder backup goes fine, but due to lack of permissions /etc does not get backed ...
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How to read default key value with dconf or gsettings?
I would like to know the default value of a dconf/gsettings key.
My question is a followup of the question below:
Where can I get a list of SCHEMA / PATH / KEY to use with gsettings?
What I'm trying ...
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Full copy of Ubuntu with installed programs and user files [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are the Alternatives For RemasterSys?!
How to make full copy of Ubuntu (12.04.1), with ability to "unpack" it from Windows, to my another flash card (to have two ...
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Directory mirroring over network
I need a software or any other way to backup my home directory instantly so that if my data is lost I have another copy over the network.
I have a NAS on my local network and I want to have an exact ...
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Prevent Encfs reverse mode from including other filesystems?
I would like to use Encfs to encrypt a copy of / for a backup by using the reverse option and then running my backup tool on the virtual, encrypted filesystem. Whenever I back up through other tools ...
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Custome install cd with all of my currently installed applications? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to customize live Ubuntu CD?
What are the alternative softwares of remastersys?
I would like to make a live cd that will have all of my currently installed ...
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Filesystem that gives an encrypted view of a directory—the inverse of EncFS
Currently I'm using EncFS to encrypt my directory "confidential" to ".encconfidential" and sync that encrypted directory using an online service (e.g. Dropbox, UbuntuOne etc). However my entire disk ...
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Using duplicity directly, is it possible to have multiple backup plans?
If I understand correctly, duplicity is the command line tool for creating backups and can be used stand-alone (i.e. no DejaDup involved) for creating backups.
Is it possible to set up multiple ...
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Truly Quiet Deja Dup
I have set-up Deja Dup to take backup over a ssh connection on the LAN. At times when the link is down, Deja Dup pops out a box 'No route to host'.
Is there a way to avoid this? Like a -quiet ...
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GUI Crashed when updating 10.04 to 12.04 using the update-manager [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What should I do when Ubuntu freezes?
I was updating my Desktop from 10.04 to 12.04 and the server crashed before the update was done is there any way to fix this other ...
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How to configure Backuppc in ubuntu 12.04?
I would like to setup Backuppc to Backup files of all remote hosts. A need guide with screenshots will be appreciated.
Details:
All the hosts are running ubuntu, i need to set incremental backup ...
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Backup Windows files using Ubuntu - Unable to find Windows partition
I am using a Dell laptop with Windows 7, all of a sudden the HDD is not recognized by Win7. I wanted to backup the data in Windows, so I made a Ubuntu 12.04.1 Live CD, and booted from it. I am using ...
