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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 ...
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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 ...
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Extract UNIX dump file in Windows 7
I have a dump-file of the UFS partition created with FreeBSD's dump.
How to view its content and extract some files from it on Windows 7?
Cygwin's restore provides very limited functionality and ...
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Backup & restore from Linux to Windows while Linux is running
I have a lab with some Linux machines, some are Red Hat 5.1 machines installed on HPDL580 HW, and some are Linux installed on BLADE IBM machines.
Also I have laptop computer with Windows XP.
My ...
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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 ...
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how to restore a logical partition to it's original ext4 format
This question is following Unable to mount /home/ partition after reinstalling grub after reinstalling windows 7 where the diagnostic was that installing windows 7 deleted my /home partion, lovingly ...
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undo rm -r, restore data
I was playing around with zip and accidentally deleted my /home/ folder (i wanted to delete home/ which got created by unzipping an archive).
I used rm -r /home/instead of rm -r home/ as root...
Is ...
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How to create a snapshot in btrfs, and then rollback to it after some work?
What are the commands to use in btrfs in case I want to:
create a (read-only) snapshot of a volume;
(do some experiments in the volume);
and then rollback the volume to the snapshot?
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Overwrite file and apply file system rights of overwritten files?
I backed up some linux configuration files to a windows machine, so the file system rights were lost. Now I would like to restore my backed up configuration by overwriting the configuration currently ...
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Taking complete backup of System and then restoring?
I am using kubuntu 10.04 and now I want to install Mac on my PC.
I have my data scattered in over 200 Gb and I want take a backup such that with one command all my data is saved into a single file.
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How to create a read-only snapshot in LVM, and then rollback to it after some work?
What are the commands to use in LVM in case I want to:
create a read-only snapshot of a volume;
(do some experiments in the volume);
and then rollback the volume to the snapshot?
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How to restore accidentaly removed file of FreeBSD base system?
I accidentally removed /etc/rc.d/rtadvd from my FreeBSD system (8.2-RELEASE)
What is the best way of getting such system file restored?
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Restore overwritten /usr/local/bin [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Recovering deleted files on fedora
I accidentally overwrote my /usr/local/bin directory when installing something. Is there a way I can restore this directory? What can ...
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Can LVM snapshots be writable? (and used for temporary experiments)
It seems that usually it is talked about snapshots as read-only. (In a scenario where one creates a snapshot, then does some experiments with the main volume, and then restores the old state by ...
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Completely Backing Up Linux Installation
I come from Windows, and I've been getting into Linux a little bit lately. Trying to make that my default OS for now. I've wanted to try out a couple different flavors of Linux. I spent probably a ...
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Ignorantly dd'd /dev/sda*
I was trying to write an iso to a flash drive. I mistakenly thought that all /dev/sda* are flash drives attached to the system. I wasn't sure how to figure out which was which, so I just unplugged my ...
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How do I create Restore Points in Arch Linux (or Linux in general)?
I am relatively new to Arch Linux and I really like its rolling-release concept. Now what I want to know is that before I do a system update via pacman -Syu, I want to create a restore point so that ...
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Clone OS to a smaller drive
I would like to copy/clone/move my CentOS (which is on a 20GB hard drive) to a smaller hard drive (5GB)...
Can someone tell me how to do this?
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Incremental system backup and restore w/ rsync or rdiff-backup issues
I've been reading about using rsync and rdiff-backup to make incremental backups of my entire Linux system. I am planning to practise that by setting up a Linux system, making some changes to it, ...
