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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Can I tar the whole system, clear everything and untar it back?
I have to do the whole system cleanup, deleting and recreating all partitions.
I'm wondering if I could simply tar all my / (excluding proc, sys and mnt) into archive and then untar it into clear ...
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Backup fails, not enough space
I have Back Up set up to back up to my Ubuntu One account, but for some reason when it is backing up it tries and then gives me the error:
Backup location is too small. Try using one with more ...
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Backup all home folders on usb disk and accessibility
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and have multiple family members working on it with there own home folder.
I have an USB disk and want to use it to backup my home folders. Trying this, I got some questions.
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How can I backup media from a tablet to my Ubuntu desktop?
I have Ubuntu 12.10 and a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 How can I use my desktop to back up my tablet? I tried to call Samsung support earlier, but they wanted $200 for their tech support!
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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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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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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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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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Error ¨Sheduled backup delayed¨ even though network is available
I get this message every time I bootup the machine
Schedule Backup delayed
Backup will begin when a network connection becomes available
The network is working fine and I can use the internet, also ...
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How to prevent shutdown on certain condition?
Background
I am using rsnapshot to backup my machines to a remote nfs nas device. This is somewhat tricky to use with my laptop since it is not guaranteed to be online at a specific time and for a ...
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Selective file restore for 12.04
I created a backup of my old 12.04 installation before the computer died. I have a new computer and wish to get some files from that backup [on a local usb connected drive].
How do I get to select ...
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Crontab not running a script
I have set my crontab to run 2 script.
the first script is not running.
I set up on the crontab -e not sudo crontab -e
The error i have is this
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Failed backup after upgrade
No backup since upgrade to 13.04. I get: Giving up on request after 5 attempts, last status 400 Bad Request
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Deja-Dup says out of space though supposed to clear out older backups
Deja-Dup backup failed due to out of space condition on backup disk. It is indeed full, but I see many entries older than 1 month even though in the backup settings I indicate to keep backups for "at ...
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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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Backing up NAS to NAS
I am pretty new to Ubuntu. I have yet to really use it's full functionality (ie command lines). I'm using an older laptop to set it up to run as a media server using Plex. I was hoping to use it to ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ubuntu Server 12.04.1 LTS - Snapshot?
I'm configuring OpenStack in my ubuntu server and now that I think I have this working and I want to do and try some configurations for Live Migration I want to know if there are any way to make a ...
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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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PlayonLinux error : Hidden files not hidden? (duplicate files are created that start with ~$)
I use PlayOnLinux to run Microsoft office and excel in Ubuntu 12.04 . For some reason, for every file I save there is a duplicate file name created in the same folder that starts with ~$ . This is ...
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Restore duplicity backup from nautilus
I wanted to create backup at a specific hour and day, and afterer reading this:
running deja-dup as cronjob, BU disc not connected
I decided to make backups using duplicity from shell.
I can create ...
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Backup Monitor - is it necessary at Startup?
What is Backup Monitor about? May I uncheck it in Startup list?
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Restoring settings and packages to clean install
I recently backed up my entire filesystem to a network drive in order to allow me to delete the Ubuntu partition, move the partition on the disk and reinstall.
I then attempted to copy all of the ...
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deja-dup fails to restore home directory
I backed up my home directory with deja-dup, installed Ubuntu 13.04, and attempted to restore the files, but after chosing the date of the backup to restore and chosing the location where to put the ...
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One-way backup to external hard drive
Sorry if this is trivial, my google-powers have abandoned me!
I'm looking to set up a backup on an external hard drive (stationary, automatically mounted)(Ubuntu 12.04).
What I'm interested in is a ...
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How to backup Ubuntu partition via Windows?
I wanted to make a backup of my Ubuntu (12.04) partition before upgrading to 13.04, but I've come up against a snag. None of the tools I can find can make an image of the currently-mounted drive - ...
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How to backup all system settings in ubuntu 13.04?
I'm new with ubuntu and I'm experimenting a lot. I have custom keyboard layouts, some hard to find drivers, some modifications to the unity environment, etc.
Now I'd like to try xfce, but I am ...
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“Back-up location not available”
I have been successfully backing up to a 16GB USB 2.0 removable disk.
Now I get a message from Backup saying "Back-up location not available". Detailed message is Waiting for USB DISK 2.0: Backup to ...
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Auto uploading/syncing with box.com
I have a Minecraft server on a Ubuntu server machine and I'd like to backup it to Box.com or mega.co.nz maybe once a month or something and I don't want to download it to my comp and then upload it ...
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How do I delete the backup Home Folder that was created after I encrypted my Home Folder?
I'm having a problem here. I just encrypted my home holder successfully and all the different tutorials that I read say that the final step is to delete the backup home folder that was created:
It ...
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Multiboot flashcard and my backup
I've created multiboot flashcard and put there 2 systems: my backup maden in remastersys and clean ubuntu. The problem is - when i boot the system from my flashcard - there are only livecds. I mean, ...
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Adjust timeout settings on ubuntu backup (dejadup)
I use deja-dup front-end (default backup application in Ubuntu since 12.04 or so?) to execute a remote backup. Recently, the backup seems to run fine, transferring files successfully to the remote ...
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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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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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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What about backup? RAID5 + LVM System
I'm currently managing a home server which has had a major problem: one of the disks in the LVM VG died. This disk was recently added and thus the recently saved data on the VG was unretrievable. I ...
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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
