Questions tagged [restore]

The term restore can refer to bringing back data into a database. It is often done during a recovery session. In the context of Operating Systems like Windows, the term system restore is often used to bring the OS to an older state that worked well.

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How to restore the previous version of log file?

I run my program on my college server and have to provide a log file to update the results of the program. Accidently I submitted a program without updating the name of the log file and hence the ...
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Polkit All Messed Up

Ubuntu, vanilla 20.04.3 LTS - Originally installed Ubuntu about June of 2018. Somehow I recently messed up my own permissions and started getting polkit error messages about me not being a member of ...
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Restoring from old hard drive

Background: I have a Dell Laptop with Ubuntu (VERSION="20.04.3 LTS (Focal Fossa)"). This laptop has a 1TB hard drive. Now I am looking to upgrade the laptop to a 2TB hard drive (SSD). ...
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Deja Dup restore fails with unknown error, creates a folder instead of a file

reviewing a bit about it, I found this unsolved question in another forum that perfectly describes my downside: I'm a relative noob. I am running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Backed up a folder on my Data drive ...
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How to backup /home partition from one laptop and restore to another

On my current laptop, I have installed the /home in a separate partition, in the case I need to reinstall the OS, without having to backup and restore files and configurations. My laptop is having ...
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How to Fully Backup and Restore gpg Keys, Signatures and Settings

My gpg backup process so far is: $ gpg --export-ownertrust > PATH/TO/BACKUP/ownertrust.txt $ cp -u ~/.gpgrc PATH/TO/BACKUP/ $ cp -u ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf PATH/TO/BACKUP/ $ gpg --...
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Deja Dup UnicodeDecodeError when attempting a restore from a live session onto a clean install

I'm trying to restore my system to before a borked upgrade. There is a fresh install of 18.04 Desktop on the drive now, and I'm trying to restore my settings and such using Deja Dup from a live ...
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Ubuntu 21.04. Newbie here. Please confirm correctness before I do a Timeshift system restore

Newbie here. See pics. Some of my apps got messed up and I want to do a Timeshift system restore to yesterday (Aug 10th). Please look at the pics and see if I’m all set to do a restore. Will this ...
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deja-dup: How to restore a LUbuntu 18.04.5 backup to Ubuntu 20.04.2, including with app settings and app local folders?

BACKGROUND I have an old PC running LUbuntu 18.04.5, and a newer PC on which I plan to run LUbuntu 20.04.2 or Ubuntu 20.04.2 (which I will first download to a DVD). Indications from the GUI of Deja-...
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Restoring [K]Ubuntu 20.04 after removing Python with apt-get

TLDR: I need to restore my distro after sudo removing all Python dependencies I did the stupid thing and now I need to fix it. I wanted to do a clean install of Python for a class, uninstalling all ...
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restore __pycache__ folder from trash ubuntu 18.04

I accidentally removed pycache folder in my computer running ubuntu 18.04 lts and when I try to restore it gives me the error message Item in the trash may not be modified How to fix this?
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missing "restore missing files" option

I want to restore files that I accidentally removed from my computer. I use ubuntu 20.04 as my OS, Files (3.36.3-stable) as the file manager, and Déjà Dup Backup Tool (40.7) as the backup program The ...
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Restore a linux partition image (by Macrium Reflect) after HDD format

My previous setup had Windows and Ubuntu in two primary partitions on the same HDD. I had backed up the Ubuntu and EFI partitions (using Macrium Reflect) before giving to service center, where they ...
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Roll back Ubuntu upgrade

Has anyone ever actually rolled back an upgrade? The upgrades installed 07-07-2021 Upgrade: avahi-autoipd:amd64 (0.8-5ubuntu3, 0.8-5ubuntu3.1), avahi-utils:amd64 (0.8-5ubuntu3, 0.8-5ubuntu3.1), ...
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The item cannot be restored from trash

I don't know why all my files and folders in home location starts appearing on desktop so,I deleted all the files and folders on desktop as i thought that they are temporary after the deletion of ...
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can I reinstall Ubuntu 20.10 with all settings, apps and themes? [duplicate]

I set up the ubuntu 20.10 system perfectly for myself and installed some software. And can I keep the system I’m using right now to reinstall or give it to someone else? is it possible. can I ...
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I have been asked to restore an old Lamp website with Ubuntu 12 and no sudo access

I have prepared a USB with an Ubuntu 20 server iso, since I have been told that if I run this, it will update the software and recreate sudo access without deleting any of the old website. I want to ...
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Question on cloning(using dd command) entire system to SSD

After reading on threads, I'm still confused and need your help. My laptop is Lenovo G580 20157 - 2 Hard Drives (sda and sdb) sda(500GB) - SSD sdb(250GB) - Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS see the picture attached ...
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Clonezilla: realiable alternative

Does anybody knows a good alternative to clonezilla to clone the whole disk like in clonezilla? Thanks.
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DejaDup "Restore Failed, no backups to restore"

after recently having issues with my Ubuntu installation, I live booted Ubuntu, mounted the problematic partition, and made a complete backup of it using Deja Dup. However, upon wiping that partition ...
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Thunderbird: restore single email account coming from folder backup

I have mistakenly overwritten one of the email account of a Thunderbird profile and I would like to restore it from a folder backup of some months ago. It was an IMAP mailbox (that now is inactive) ...
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Fresh OS install - Restore everything from a copy

I recently installed Ubuntu Budgie 20.04.2 LTS but for some issues I had to format my disk. Before that I copied the entire Ubuntu folder "/" and all sub-folders on a separate drive. Now I ...
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Ubuntu can't detect external 4TB Seagate hard drive after accidently formatting and stopping immediately [duplicate]

I used sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb to format a flash drive (I didn't notice /sd*) but accidentally my Seagate external hard disk (/dev/sdb) started being formatted and immediately after few seconds I ...
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How to completely remove timeshift?

I installed Timeshift backup and Restore manager for my Ubuntu 20.04 and I interrupted the backup. Now I uninstalled the Timeshift but the folder still exists under the root with 15 GB of storage, And ...
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Restore Files from Sata SSD

I am new to this forum, so if I make a mistake, please let me know what I did wrong and let me edit my question. Basically, my friend had a laptop (a Dell Inspiron) that ran Windows 10. One day a ...
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My pictures folder just disappeared!

Using Ubuntu 18.04 with Unity desktop. Have been doing so for a long time; have not recently installed or changed anything. I just restarted the computer after it became unresponsive and started ...
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Accidentally deleted the Downloads folder

I deleted the default downloads folder by accident using the terminal, is there a way to create a new default system folder for downloads?
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The trickier part of a backup: The restoration

I would like to make the backup process of my system as sensible and efficient as possible. (Well, not as possible maybe, but a little bit at least.) In this course, the backup itself is the most ...
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Backup system and restore onto new machine

Hosted Virtual Computer Streaming via NoMachine OS: Ubuntu MATE 20.10 x86_64 Kernel: 5.8.0-44-generic Packages: 2576 (dpkg), 9 (snap) Shell: bash 5.0.17 DE: MATE Theme: Ambiant-MATE-Dark [GTK2/3] ...
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How to restore files from a deleted user?

I tried the kde plasma environment but it crashed and I removed a user. When I removed him I pressed the "keep files" but I can't find the files anywhere. Where are those files? I searched ...
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ssh+sudo+dump on server cannot be restored locally

I have inherited an Ubuntu 14.04 server that I need to create a sandboxed copy of locally in VirtualBox to experiment with as part of preparing to upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04, as we strongly suspect it is ...
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Can I restore the data from a USB that was removed unsafely?

During copying some files to my external hard drive, I accidentally disconnected the USB from my laptop. I lost all files in the directory to which I had been copying some files. Question: Is it ...
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What are all the options available to capture Ubuntu installation and later restore to a pristine condition?

For testing, I have been using an Ubuntu Server VM on a Windows machine under VMware and disabling persistent storage. After a reboot I'm back to the original machine configuration. It's really ...
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Proper and accurate way to back up in a folder, the hole System

What is the most accurate and safe way to backup the hole System (all the / directory) on ubuntu? I am new to Linux, and I am running Ubuntu Server 20.10 on a Raspberry Pi, and I want to backup ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 zfs grub rollback snapshots

I'm interested in teh ZFS snapshot feature, So I deployed 20.04 VM with ZFS. I created a snapshot to test how the rollback procedure works. sudo snapshot -r rpool@SNAP1 When then I created and ...
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Restoring MongoDB database from physical files

Issue My hard drive cannot boot into Ubuntu 18.04 Desktop any more (I suspect that the UI doesn't load but everything else should work fine). It will take too much time to analyze what went wrong, so ...
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Builtin backup tool in LTS

I have been using the builtin backup tool for several months creating a automatic file every week. Today I had a chance to use it to restore my files, stored in a USB stick just for backup that I can ...
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Déjà Dup does not allow to change google drive account from which restore the files

I had to reinstall Ubuntu and then I wanted to restore the backup I saved in Google Drive (using Deja-dup). It didn't ask me which account, it just said that there weren't any backups to restore. ...
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apt get rollback in time?

I installed packages in the last days and I decided. I try to removed them, and chrome was suddenly stop working. I assume that some of the packages were already installed, so chrome couldn't start ...
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How can I get an exact copy of Ubuntu's default /etc/crontab file from any official (local or remote) repository? [duplicate]

Long story short: I accidentally deleted the default content that the 64-bit Ubuntu 20.04 installer had put inside of /etc/crontab during Ubuntu's installation on my computer, so now I'm trying to ...
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How To Create A Live BackUp and Do An In Place Restore

I need to be able to remotely run a live backup of an Ubuntu server, which is on a VPS without physical access and then also be able to recover to that backup in place. I do not have console access, ...
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Migrating /home to a new PC

I have built a new PC and installed Kubuntu 20.04.1. I always keep the /home partition on a dedicated drive, so normally when upgrading hardware, I just migrate that drive across to the new box and ...
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Restoring data from badly damaged HDD [duplicate]

There is a message in Disks: DISK IS LIKELY TO FAIL SOON I have no idea what happed to this HDD. I tried to make an image of the damaged partition using Disks but after coping 15GB of the partition I ...
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Ubuntu server backup

I have Ubuntu bare-metal server, I want to create a full backup of the server to external storage and use the backup from external storage to load a new server Notes: The server is hosted on a remote ...
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“Backup Failed”: Could not restore ‘~/.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup

This problem has been reported before and claimed to be fixed. I am getting the same error when backing up which causes my next automatic backup to not start. Observations During backup there is a ~/....
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Restore Apple Magic Trackpad 2 settings on Ubuntu

I couldn't solve this problem despite spending many hours (two days), so I decided to ask here. How can I restore the default settings for the Apple Magic Trackpad 2 when using on Ubuntu? My problem ...
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ZFS pool to EXT4 partition

I installed zfsutils-linux and followed a tutorial of Canonical https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/setup-zfs-storage-pool#2-installing-zfs It doesn't work for me, I could manage to mount a pool which 4 HDDs ...
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Nvidia 340.108 issues

Last week I upgraded my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS to version 18.04.05. Unfortunately it turned out, that after performing this update, NVIDIA Drivers 340.108 are not compatible anymore (I'm having GeForce 710M ...
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Software update error: Apt folder is no longer accessible, but is on a USB drive - need to move it back

Primary environment: Windows 10 64 Pro, Ubuntu 18.04 hosted on VMware Workstation: My system console could not be accessed after exceeding the allocated memory size. I increased the size, but was ...
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How to recover deleted files from Trash on NAS?

I have inadvertently deleted a large number of files from a directory on a file server (Synology DiskStation NAS). I deleted them using Double Commander on a client PC running Ubuntu Studio 18.04. If ...
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