Questions tagged [backup]
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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Attempt to copy entire disk with dd command failed
I have Xubuntu 22.04 installed on my PC, that has two hard disk drives: one HDD 1,5 TB and one SSD 128 GB. I have partiotioned these two disks so that my /home folder is in a partition in HDD and the ...
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Please confirm my OS image backup plan
I have backing up files down to a science with various solutions. This question is about backing up the OS, installed programs, and configuration changes. Back in the M$ world I used Macrium to make ...
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Using mysqldump on remote Ubuntu 22.04 server in rsnapshot returns code 127 while the very same command used locally works fine
As said in the title, I want to backup my remote MySQL database with rsnapshot, using mysqldump. I don't have any syntax error, but get a:
WARNING command returned 127
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Cloning and restoring partitions using GParted
Using Ubuntu 22.04 (dual booting with Windows 10). Boot partition is UEFI (GPT) on an SSD drive.
I want to test some changes to the system (including upgrading to 24.04), but I want a "fail safe&...
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Convert current Ubuntu installation to VirtualBox or Live USB
Currently I'm running Ubuntu 23.10 and facing many problems so, after 4 years, I decided that it's time to do a fresh install on my machine. But I have so many settings, apps, files, vpns and other (...
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Backups deja-dup application issue
Ubuntu 22.04 Backups (deja-dup)
"waiting for 240 GB drive to connect"
What if I no longer have the USB drive. It won't allow me to backup this machine. I tried uninstalling / reinstalling ...
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How to install Déjà Dup Backups on Ubuntu 24.04 without snap?
Just installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. I can't find it in the Software App repository. However there is a Gnome App.
I don't like Snap or Flathub.
Any idea?
Thanks
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using gnome Disk utility to change ownership of ext hard drive
My old Ubuntu computer has crashed but I luckily made encrypted backup on an external hard drive using gnome
Disk utility. I have now a new computer with a shiny new Ubuntu 24.04 but when I try to ...
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How do I run a task on poweroff, but not on reboot, before a mount point is unmounted?
I have configured /etc/fstab to auto-mount an NFS share on startup;
I have also configured rsnapshot to backup some crucial system data (/home, /etc, ...) to the same NFS share by running rsnapshot -V ...
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Copying a specific 70GB directory from a backup makes the system crash while it is not crashing when copying other directories on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
I want to copy a 70GB directory from an exFat external hard drive formatted on a MacOS system to the internal harddrive of a linux Ubuntu LTS 24.04 system. Each time that I tried to transfer the file (...
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Installing Timeshift backup on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
How do I install the Timeshift Backup app on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, as it's not listed in the App Snap Store? I want to use the GUI version of the app.
In earlier versions of Ubuntu I believe it was shown ...
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Looking for a Reliable, Maintenance-Free Backup Solution for Ubuntu 24.04
I'm looking for recommendations on a reliable, easy-to-manage backup solution for my Ubuntu 24.04 system. My goal is to backup about 150GB of data, including files, images, and documents.
My data is ...
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What is the best tool to make an identical, possibly bit by bit copy of a Linux system SSD with all the partitions and boot menu etc.?
Kubuntu 22.04. I in the process of learning that not having a backup is a super bad idea.
The SSD I use to run the Linux system is this.
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 ...
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DejaDup can't restore after fresh install, searches forever
Last week I backed up everything using Backups (DejaDup), then I swapped the old SSD for a new one and did a fresh installation of Ubuntu 24.04.
I've installed DejaDup and Duplicity. I just get a ...
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Umount before running service in systemd
I have a systemd unit service script which initiates borgmatic to do the procedure of backing up.
I would like to umount potentially virtually mounted archives of borgmatic in order to avoid error.
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