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What files and directories can be excluded from a backup of the home directory?

Duplicity does already a great job of making efficient backups, but I want still to minimize the amount of files being back-upped. What files or directories can be excluded in a home directory? ...
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How to efficiently copy only modified files from a disk to external usb?

I have a directory called my_projects_linux inside the Ubuntu file system, which contains all my work from many years. The directory contains files, subdirectories and so on. For backup purposes, I ...
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Can't update from official repositories [closed]

I constantly get error when doing sudo apt-get update Or when i try to install some application. Looks like something have been broken with repositories, but i restored sources.list from scratch ...
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Clone Ubuntu system to a pendrive and make it bootable?

I have Ubuntu 14.04 installed on my laptop. Can I clone the entire system with apps, settings, etc on a USB 3 pendrive, and then boot from that on other computers as a portable Ubuntu installation to ...
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rsync can't exclude directories

I run this cmd to backup my folders: $ rsync -av --exclude {/mnt/dati/Film/, /mnt/dati/Scout/} --delete /mnt/dati/ /media/cirelli/HD1TB/backup/dati sending incremental file list And rsync answer is: ...
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Does rsync requires changing UUID after copying a partition?

I read somewhere that after using rsync to copy a partition from one device to other one, it is important to edit the UUID, since devices cannot coexist with the same UUID. Is it true? How do I do it?...
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How to dd from smaller SD to bigger?

I run out of memory (8GB) in one system, and I need to move the existing system to bigger memory (16GB). Details /dev/disk4s1 is the input i.e. from where I want to get the data /dev/disk2s1 is the ...
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Rsync copying excluded directories

Background I am trying to make a very comprehensive backup of my Ubuntu system. I am running the following rsync command: sudo rsync -aAEHSXxv --progress --delete --exclude={/home/sterlingbutters/...
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Dual Boot - Grub showing only "System Setup"

I had Windows 7 dual booted with Ubuntu 14.04. Yesterday I ran sudo apt-get upgrade and after installing everything and restarting, I only got Ubuntu's option in my Grub. Checking in grub-...
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Cloning Ubuntu from a usb key to a partition of internal SSD

I have Ubuntu installed on a usb drive for a while now. I could not installed it along side Windows because my SSD was in RAID mode and not AHCI, so Ubuntu was not able to detect it. But recently I ...
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How can I duplicate my Ubuntu disk?

I have Ubuntu 18.04.3 on a mechanical 500 GB drive. I have added an SSD. I installed Ubuntu 18.04.3 on the SSD. The SSD is sda and the mechanical disk is sdb. Both disks have the same number of ...
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Cloning external HDD to internal HDD

The process of cloning an internal hard drive onto an external one is pretty well described by online guides, but I can't seem to find any info on the opposite. I want to replace my internal SSD ...
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backup all installed softwares

I was thinking to backup installed software on my Ubuntu 14.04. So that when system gets corrupt, I can just copy-paste those folder and get all installed programs back along with their entries in ...
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Automatic uncompressed backup/folder syncing to smb share

I have an smb share, an Ubuntu laptop and a Windows Desktop. The Desktop is backing up one of its drives to the smb share using Windows file history (keeping a local copy). If I want I can access that ...
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I installed Lubuntu 32 bit on 64 bit system. How should I go about upgrading to 64 bit?

I already downloaded the 64bit iso. I just don't know what's gonna happen, is it gonna make a third partition on my disk drive (currently have 2, one Windows one Lubuntu)? Do I have to delete the ...
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