Backing up is the process of making copies (a backup) of data which may be used to restore the original after a data loss event.
0
votes
1answer
26 views
How can I create an encrypted, file-system–agnostic, mountable volume?
At work, we have an iMac (running OS X) that shares a partitioned hard drive over the network. I'd like to back up to my partition from my Linux machine. I've attempted connecting via cifs, then ...
2
votes
1answer
31 views
Openldap backup restore
I am trying to setup backup and restore and make sure it works.
Please note that database size on ldap.old is lot more then the ldap. The /var/lib/ldap.old is my existing database. I have renamed ...
1
vote
2answers
40 views
Remote backup of local server applying Rsnapshot
I have a server which uses Rsnapshot to take snapshots of folders in miscellaneous computers within a Lan.
I would like to have another server located remotely that is to serve as a backup to this ...
1
vote
1answer
34 views
Getting back rsync's deleted files [duplicate]
I accidentally rsync-ed to a server using the delete attribute when I shouldn't have.
Is there any chance of getting the data on the server that rsync removed.. back?
0
votes
1answer
13 views
How can I have automatic snapshots with s3ql?
How can I make automatic snapshots with s3ql? I want to have a similar behaviour as in duplicity: Pushing the backup to the server creates a new incremental snapshot with the current timestamp. Then I ...
3
votes
2answers
66 views
How can I backup a directory to NTFS while preserving Unix file attributes?
I want to make a backup of my home directory to an NTFS partition (an unfortunate limitation). However, when I last tried using just cp, the attributes (owner, etc) went away. How can I make a backup ...
0
votes
0answers
18 views
Backup Creation failure
When I try to make backup through the backup tool in Linux Mint 14 (Nadia), it shows the following message in the form of dialog box:
Backup failed.
Permission denied when trying to create ...
0
votes
0answers
11 views
How to backup a current php installation?
I'm using an old RHEL4 on a server where i need to update (from source) the php version. Moving from 5.2.5 to 5.4.14.
How can i backup the old php in order to restore it if there is any problem with ...
1
vote
1answer
24 views
Back up snapshots without being admin
I would like to make a back up/snapshot of a folder where I have built various programs (~4.1 GB in size). The idea is to be able to quickly restore everything in this path to it's original state in ...
0
votes
0answers
41 views
Rsync seems to back up files that haven't been opened or changed
I have started using rsync to back some data on my mac to an external HD. It works really well, but I have noticed something odd. Every time I run the command, I get a list of files that haven't been ...
2
votes
1answer
92 views
Manually copying MBR from one drive to the other GPT drive and configuring GRUB results in booting failure
I run CentOS 6.4. I have SSD 300GB for system files and RAID10 8TB for storage + backup.
SSD system drive is partitioned as follows: fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 300.1 GB, 300069052416 bytes
255 ...
0
votes
1answer
34 views
USB Drive Software Disk Mirroring - Is this the right approach?
I have a 1TB NTFS USB Data Drive (no boot, etc...) that I would like to keep a mirror of as a backup in case of hardware failure.
It is always connected to my raspberry pi running the raspbian ...
3
votes
2answers
104 views
Rsyncing files with special characters to USB FAT32
I want to copy a large number of files to a USB drive that is formatted FAT32 (and cannot be formatted anything else, unfortunately).
Many of these files have names with characters such as : and ? ...
4
votes
3answers
104 views
Is it possible to have more than just one backup when editing text files?
Gedit and medit are two text editors that I know of that allow me to save a backup. So, if I create a file called temp.txt the next time I edit it and then save it, I'll have a backup called ...
0
votes
0answers
40 views
Delete backup files according to rules
I manage my backup files with homemade scripts:
keep the 7 latest backups (full + incremental)
keep the 5 latest full end-of-week full backups
keep the 6 latest full end-of-month full backups
...
1
vote
0answers
41 views
Null byte files in duplicity backup
When duplicty encounters 0-byte-files it gives an IO-error:
Error [Errno 5] Input/output error ... getting delta for ...
The files are usually some wired stuff like
...
2
votes
2answers
93 views
`cp -al` snapshot whose hard links get directed to a new file when edited
I am trying to take snapshots of a massive folder regularly.
I have read here: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/#Incremental
that cp -al takes a snapshot of a folder by simply ...
1
vote
1answer
50 views
backup / on ntfs filesystem encrypted
I was about to backup my archlinux, following this guide to my FritzBox, (which enforces a NTFS system that I mounted via samba) as I remembered, that NTFS is not capable to keep permissions and other ...
2
votes
1answer
88 views
rsync and backup and changing timezone
I back up my pictures from my camera using rsync, using:
rsync -vzrtl --progress --stats --timeout=0 host destination
Now I was in a different timezone when I did my first backup then I moved to a ...
0
votes
2answers
47 views
Multiple source directories in duply
Is it possible to specify multiple source directories in a duply configuration file? If not is there any simple workaround?
1
vote
2answers
139 views
Backup to a synology NAS with bup
I am trying to make a remote backup to my Synology NAS (DSM 4.1) using bup.
I compiled bup on my NAS from source, did there:
BUP_DIR=/volume1/public/Backups/bup bup init
Initialized empty Git ...
1
vote
2answers
75 views
Cancel and resume a duplicity backup
Is there a way to cancel duplicity (running over rsync and symmetric gpg encryption) without messing up the running backup and resume it later (for example after rebooting the laptop) without ...
1
vote
2answers
62 views
Browsing bup backup with gitk or gitg
I am just playing around with bup for my backups and tested it like this:
BUP_DIR=/mnt/TestTarget/bup bup init
Which gave me the message: Initialized empty Git repository in /mnt/TestTarget/bup/
...
1
vote
0answers
74 views
how to create a script to backup MySQL databases on separate files?
I need to create a script so to automate the backup process for my database server. Today there are 19 databases on the server and to prevent some schema is created and not contemplated by the script, ...
1
vote
0answers
53 views
BackupPC can't finish backup
I'm trying to backup /etc/ directory on CentOS 5.2 using BackupPC.
It takes several hours and then aborted by signal ALRM.
There is a partial backup created with all data from /etc
But BackupPC thinks ...
4
votes
2answers
82 views
backup list of installed packages
I want to reinstall my linux system (specifically linux mint). I have kept important data elsewhere, so I can safely remove everything.
However, I want to do the following:
save the list of ...
1
vote
1answer
50 views
Interactive backup tool
I am looking for a backup (or diff) tool where I can select interactively which file I want to copy towards my external hard-disk.
Let me explain with further details: I have two computers and an ...
3
votes
3answers
94 views
Is copying the root folder an adequate form of backup?
I am working in a small organization with about 8 or so Linux independent servers. While we currently do remote backups among the machines, I was told to make an "emergency backup" of the machines to ...
2
votes
2answers
178 views
What's the best way to backup files via network on Linux and Solaris machines?
I wonder what the best way to backup files VIA network
I have Solaris machines with Oracle 10i with VERITAS cluster, machines are connected to EMC storage
/data/oracle directory is mounted on the ...
0
votes
2answers
184 views
Synchronizing same files with different filenames using rsync [duplicate]
I have a directory ~/music that contains all my music files and a directory /media/backup/music that I wish to synchronize with the first one using rsync. Initially, I did a rsync -a ~/music ...
2
votes
2answers
123 views
setfacl incorrectly changes group permissions
To backup the "/home" directory tree of a server, I've created a 'backup' account and used setfacl to make the whole directory readable by it. My cron job runs this command as root each night:
...
1
vote
0answers
185 views
Use dd to backup disk image within an OpenVZ container
I want to use dd to backup the disk of an OpenVZ VPS in addition to traditional cold tar backups. Because I may need to migrate to a different VPS provider.
From end user point of view, OpenVZ ...
0
votes
3answers
203 views
What is the function of user group root? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What does it mean to be in group 0?
I wanted to avoid using SSH root login to backup my remote server. Thus I set up a non-root user account on the server and place it ...
3
votes
2answers
96 views
Is it safe to only partially restore a disk image with dd?
I have saved my whole hard-disk with dd to an image file. The hard-disk contained some primary partitions formatted with ntfs, swap and ext4. I did it this way:
dd if=/dev/sda | ssh user@fastmachine ...
4
votes
1answer
274 views
How to clone btrfs filesystem into different medium preserving snapshots' sharing data
I have decided to give btrfs raid capabilities a try. I set up a btrfs with
sudo mkfs.btrfs -m raid10 -d raid10 /dev/sda9 /dev/sdb9 /dev/sdc9 /dev/sdd9
Now I want to clone my existing btrfs ...
0
votes
1answer
151 views
Hardlinks in Dropbox not updated
I want to create a backup of a single .tex file. I created the hard link to the file (which is not in Dropbox directory, lets say it is A) inside Dropbox directory. I did this so because I do not want ...
4
votes
1answer
71 views
Can I exclude /run from my backup scheme?
I have written a rsync-based system backup for my Linux system. The aim is to be able to redeploy the system entirely from the saves, so I don't only backup homedirs. I have excluded a few top-level ...
2
votes
1answer
60 views
Is there a FUSE which permits transparently accessing incremental backups?
While creating incremental backups is relatively simple (and can be automated, e.g. via rdiff-backup), in order to access a specific state of a file one first has to manually restore the backup, which ...
1
vote
2answers
230 views
Create a tar archive split into blocks of a maximum size
I need to backup a fairly large directory, but I am limited by the size of individual files. I'd like to essentially create a tar.(gz|bz2) archive which is split into 200MB maximum archives. ...
0
votes
1answer
382 views
how to tell rsync to preserve time stamp on files when source tree has a mounted point
Related to this question
Short description of the problem
When source tree has a mounted point inside it, then time stamps on files inside that mounted point when copied to target tree are not ...
1
vote
1answer
321 views
rsync command to backup home tree to another disk
I want to make sure I am using the correct rsync command on Linux. I do not want to run an rsync and end up losing data as I am new to Linux and I have no backup now.
On Linux Mint, I want to backup ...
0
votes
0answers
177 views
Open alternative to crashplan friends
Is there a native linux alternative to "crashplan friends" http://support.crashplan.com/doku.php/getting_started/back_up_to_a_friend? The concept is that files are syncronized (backuped) to remote ...
1
vote
0answers
367 views
How to backup KVM images? Is it possible to backup whole VM?
I need to backup all (9 VMs) my KVM VMs. I would like to backup them in the night for example once a week. For example VMware server and VMware server 2 used to have possibility to create live backups ...
2
votes
3answers
661 views
How to backup debian system?
I have VPS hosting with debian operating system.
I would like to backup whole system time by time.
Here is a lot of questions how to backup OS on local machine, but it's not what I need.
I have just ...
4
votes
2answers
425 views
Scp doesn't work in cron
Yeah, I know it's classic. I've googled it all around, but still it doesn't work. I have the following script:
#First go to SVN repo folder
cd $svnrepos
# Just make sure we have write access to ...
1
vote
1answer
99 views
About Clonezilla and how store the backup
I've never used Clonezilla before.
When storing a backup, Clonezilla needs a free partition or free space? I mean, I have a disk for backups with only one partition. Do I have to create a partition ...
2
votes
2answers
82 views
Copying and expanding partitions
I currently have the following setup:
2TB HDD /dev/sda:
/dev/sda1: (NTFS) Windows 7 Boot Partition: 100GB
1TB HDD /dev/sdb:
/dev/sdb1: (EXT4) Linux General/Backup Partition - 1TB
256GB SSD ...
1
vote
1answer
76 views
tar -c Error Messages and Source Files?
During a tar archiving operation with tar -cvf archive.tar source does the resulting tar archive that reports a file changed as we read it error still contain "some version" of the source file that it ...
1
vote
0answers
28 views
Time Machine Server on Fedora [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I (and should I) use my Linux file server as a Time Machine backup server for my Macs?
I was just wondering if anyone knew how to/or knew of a good guide to ...
2
votes
4answers
145 views
How to restore data atomically on a remote server?
I want to be able to backup and restore my home directory of a remote account.
The command I use are:
Backup
ssh myuser@myuser.server.com "tar jcf - ." > backup.tar.bz2
Restore
cat ...
