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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Deje dup and duplicity - restore fail
New and ignorant Ubuntu user. Hardly able to use a command line.
I had an old PC that I installed with Ubuntu version 22.04 LTS. I used the Ubuntu proposed backup tool DEJA DUP to start backing up a ...
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Recovery of LUKS encrypted mdadm array from zeroed superblocks possible?
I have (had?) an mdadm raid5 array that contained 3 8TB drives (identified via lsblk as sde, sdf and sdi). I did an incredibly bone-headed thing and zeroed the superblocks on these devices -- I was ...
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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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How to restore everything to a default profile after every reboot or logout?
I would like to use Ubuntu in my school. But I have a couple of questions about how to make certain configurations.
I have seen in Windows a program that allows you to reset the user account every ...
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Gitlab self managed instance restore
I have a gitlab ee self managed instance (Version 16.8.1) which is now up and running in a Ubuntu 22.04 LTS server. I have taken full backup of it using.
sudo gitlab-backup create
I got the backup ...
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Restore a single file with deja-dup in Ubuntu 20.04
I tried to restore a single file in Nautilus that I have accidentally overwritten. However, the context-menu entry to restore a (missing) file is no longer there. After some research I found, that the ...
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How do I restore deleted files from rsync?
I used the following command
rsync -avh --progress --remove-source-files --delete /mnt/disk-1/* /mnt/disk-2
I thought that delete would overwrite files in my destination directory. But instead, it ...
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Is there any backup solution host machines that act like saving states in Virtual Machines?
I am looking for a backup solution that is similar to VMWare's or Proxmox saving states.
For example in VMWare/Promox I can save the state of the Virtual Machine then I can mess stuff and revert back ...
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I followed a solution procedure on AskUbuntu, logged out and now all my data is gone (no guest account)
I did the following to get Skype to recognise my headset microphone (which was not working), as shown as a solution on a question on this website:
rm -rf ~/.config/pulse/
Log out
Log back in
go to ...
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How can I restore /etc/apt/keyrings directory? [duplicate]
I am new to Linux, and when I was trying to install postgresql on my ubuntu 22.04, in one of the steps while adding the necessary gpg key, being not accurate it seems I deleted all the gpg files from /...
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Firefox won't start after updating. How to restore the previous version without losing profile data?
Firefox won't start after updating to version 123.0.
At the same time, no errors will appear, and there is also no specific crash report that would help understand the reason.
How to restore the ...
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All of my files has been disappeared
Dear friends yesterday I came against with a problem that never have been faced the last 15 years I use Ubuntu. I was trying to repair linux-image-header 6.5.0.1 because a had dpkg warning message ...
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If I full backup with root directories and lose owner of ext4 USB what can I recover?
If I use an ext4 USB and back up like my home which has root owned stuff, can I read all of it if I lose what user was used to own that USB and write to it? What about regular files under like my ...
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Can rsync backup on ext4 USB be as good as system image?
With I have an Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS desktop with Ubuntu Pro Lenovo Thinkpad T460 and a program that backs up and restores all timestamps and group and owner, would a backup with rsync with maximum ...
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Firefox (snap) in Kubuntu 22.04 fails to restore session upon start
There are some questions about FF either not saving or failing completely to restore a previous session, but they do not cover my problem:
When I start FF (119.0b9 (64-bit)), it tells me it cannot ...
