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.
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How to recover a missing file
I am running ubuntu and last week the system didn't let me alter files as if I had no write permissions. Then on reboot the system did a check of the system which took some time. Then everything went ...
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Bacula + bat on Ubuntu Maverick
Okay, so I have a goal, and I'm unsure of the best steps to take to get there.
Goal:
Set up a Linux VM in VirtualBox (Host: Windows Server 2008 R2)
Setup Bacula in a Linux environment
Get Bacula to ...
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back-up database in Linux partition from windows partition!
Hello I am in a very embarrassing situation, I was trying to upgrade to ubuntu 10.04 from ubuntu 9.10 yesterday and while updating I forgot to put my laptop on charger and the battery ran out. Since ...
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root user denied access to .gvfs in rsnapshot?
I was running rsnapshot as root and I got the following error. Why would this happen? what is .gvfs?
rsnapshot weekly slave-iv
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Concept of 'mount point' while installing LINUX
While installing Linux, it asks for a 'mount point' selection. I gave it /, but I don't know the exact meaning and aim of this.
Also, now I want to create one more mount point, /home in my machine ...
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How do I mount a WD MyBook World network drive in linux?
I have a WD MyBook World NAS on my home network. I currently use this for Time Machine backups for my Mac but I'd also like to use it as a backup location for my linux box which is running Ubuntu ...
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Rsync filter: copying one pattern only
I am trying to create a directory that will house all and only my PDFs compiled from LaTeX. I like keeping each project in a separate folder, all housed in a big folder called LaTeX. So I tried ...
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Straightforward system and file backup/restore for Linux?
After using an Ubuntu virtual machine for a while, I think I am ready to get a real, physical machine and use Ubuntu on it.
Since I am still relatively new to the Linux world, is there a reliable ...
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Rock-stable filesystem for large files (backups) for linux
What filesystem would be best for backups? I'm interested primary in stability (especially uncorruptability of files during hard reboots etc.) but how efficiently it handles large (>5GB) files is also ...
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What directories do I need to back up?
What are the directories one should back up, in order to have a backup of all user-generated files?
From a vanilla debian install, I can do enough apt to get the packages that I want. So if I don't ...
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How can I (and should I) use my Linux file server as a Time Machine backup server for my Macs?
I have two Macs that I'd like to start backing up using Time Machine, but all of my storage is attached to my Linux file server.
How can I use my Linux file server (which happens to be running Ubuntu ...
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rolling diffs for storage of highly similar files?
At work we do a nightly dump of our mysql databases. From day to day, I would guestimate that close to 90-95% of the data is duplicate, increasing as time goes on. ( Heck at this point some are ...
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Easy incremental backups to an external hard drive
For a while I used Dirvish to do incremental backups of my machines, but it is slightly cumbersome to configure, and if you do not carry a copy of your configuration it can be hard to reproduce ...
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What to use to backup files, preserving ACLs?
When using the tar utility to store files in backups one loses the extended ACLs.
Is there some commonly used and not hackish solution (like: create a script that will recrate the ACLs from scratch) ...
