Questions tagged [restore]
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How to restore important deleted package
I run the command apt autoremove, And it accidentally removed some packages, Which I assume is important, because after I run the command, I can't access wifi, I can't find it icon.
The output for apt ...
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Migrating from turnkey Linux appliance to Debian 10 VM
I have a turnkey Linux appliance that's based on Debian 8.6 and I have a new Debian 10.9 Gen 2 VM I'm running on Hyper-v since Turnkey Linux still does not support UEFI. What simple approaches are ...
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Restore Ubuntu state from before upgrade with rsync
I have a root server with Ubuntu 16.04 which I use as a web server. This web server hosts a few production sites which should not be offline for long.
I want to upgrade to Ubuntu 20.10. I anticipate ...
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restore files from backup directory recursively
i backuped hundreds of files from source directory using script, files in my backup directory have the same names, also backup directory's directory structure is also same as source directory
how can ...
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Arch linux: restore session with running programs after running out of battery
I have Lenovo notebook with Arch linux. When I run out of battery and my notebook dies, after starting it. It freshly boots new session. Is there a way to restore previous session and continue in it ?
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Restoring System after crash fails (Ubuntu Budgie 20.04)
My ubuntu 20.04 crashed and now the computer only boots into grub rescue mode. As usual, i wanted to repair Ubuntu with fsck. But the df output doesnt list my hard drives /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. The ...
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What causes \r's to be inserted before \n's when retrieving a binary file over ssh, and how do I circumvent it?
I have inherited a Ubuntu 14.04 production server which needs to be upgraded to 20.04, and I would like a sandboxed version to experiment with first, hence I want to dump and restore the filesystems ...
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Backup and restore links to config files and directories
Like many (I think), I have a ~/document directory which I would like to backup periodically to an external drive.
~/document contains also some symlinks to config files and directories, such as ~/....
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Restore / roll back single files or folders on btrfs
I am planning to utilize btrfs for a NAS system.
Now I am wondering whether it is possible to roll back things to snapshots on a file / folder level. I ask this because typically one only wants to ...
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Recover formated Linux Mint encrypted Drive
When installing Windows 10 I accidentally mixed the drives and deleted another one that had Linux Mint and was encrypted, since then I haven't done anything on drive to not overwrite anything. Is it ...
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Rollback root snapshot in BTRFS
I have only 1 BTRFS partition that contains both / and /home.
I have snapshotted the root filesystem via the command:
btrfs subvolume snapshot / /root/snapshots/test
Now I want to restore this ...
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How to restore my system to good condition on linux mint 20?
I booted from Linux Mint Live from USB with the aim to separate /home from / separate partition
I mounted both the partitions and by mistake moved wrong files to wrong place (while using sudo)
mount /...
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FreeBSD best practice for backup restore [closed]
What is the best practice for system backup and restore on freebsd?
Because I'm making many changes to the system I need to use quickest and easiest way to restore entire system to previous ...
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Partial restore with Back In Time
I'm trying different backup methods for my Linux machine. Came across Back In Time, and I like it, but:
Is there a way to restore just some of the backed up files/dirs?
Say I have selected dirs */A/, *...
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Using rsync to create a complete OS backup/clone sufficient?
Will using rsync to duplicate an entire file system, e.g. doing
rsync -avxHAX --progress / /dev/[backup disk]
as suggested here, result in a complete duplicate Linux system? I.e. will all system and ...
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# dd + lz4 compression and de compression
I have a CentOS server and I have take a backup of the server using following command (dd + lz4).
# dd if=/dev/sda bs=100M | pv -ptera -s500G | lz4 > Lenovo-Win8-sda.dd.lz4
It's working and now I ...
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Copying or restoring crtime for files/directories on ext4fs filesystem
I wonder if there are ways to copy or restore crtime (creation time) for inodes/files/directories in Linux in 2020. I've accidentally deleted a folder while I still have a full disk backup, but ...
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Accidentally executed luksFormat instead of luksOpen
I have two disks as RAID-1 encrypted via LUKS:
# blkid
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/dev/md0: UUID="x-x-x-x-x" TYPE="crypto_LUKS"
Accidently I executed cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/md0 instead of cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/md0 ...
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Proper way to backup an overlayfs
I'm using an overlayfs for different folders. Now I'm thinking about a backup and restore process. I didn't found anything via google, which answered my question.
An overlayfs has an upper, lower, ...
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After a reboot is there a way to restore prior windows like terminals and gnotes to what they were before a reboot?
I have a dual boot setup (GNU/Linux-Debian-Buster & Windows 10).
Sometimes I have to shutdown GNU/Linux, thus closing all of my many open windows with work in progress, to be able to ...
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Which OS will be reinstalled with a factory reset from a dual boot?
I have a computer that had been installed with a dual-boot. Currently, there is when I start a grub kernel that handles two OS on multiple partitions (sda1 to sda4):
Ubuntu
Windows (with some remote ...
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dd: “No space left” when restoring backup to exact same disk
A while ago I made a backup of an entire disk using
dd if=/dev/nvme0n1 conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | gzip -c > backup.img.gz
Today I restored this backup to the same disk using
gunzip -c backup....
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A good way how to backup user data in CentOS?
I need to back up my data and I have not found a good way so far.
Just say I have 1 TB of a non-system disk with 50-100 GB of user data (binary files, source code, images, etc.). And another big disk,...
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xfce4 + i3 are not properly restoring saved sessions?
I'm using manjaro with xfce4 and i3 as my wm. So far so good, the problem that I'm usually facing is that whenever I logout from my current session and log back in all my apps are closed and the ...
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Odd output from dsmc (Tivoli storage manager or TSM) query backup
I'm using TSM (dsmc) on Ubuntu 14.04.
# dsmc
IBM Spectrum Protect
Befehlszeilenschnittstelle des Clients für Sichern/Archivieren
Clientversion 8, Release 1, Stufe 8.0
Client-Datum/Zeit: 04.12....
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Why use tape for restoring AIX mksysb instead of other ordinary drive devices?
I'm intrigued by the fact that the only way to restore a mksysb backup on AIX Unix systems can be done either by using a NIM server or by manually using a tape.
Why is it that you cannot replace the ...
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How to do linux snapshots similar to VirtualBox guest snapshot?
I'm still learning how linux works so I'm constantly making mistakes, installing packages in the wrong way and whatnot. A good way of solving this is using VirtualBox and just taking snapshots from ...
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“Backups” (deja-dup): after installing duplicity 0.8 from source, “Backups” can't find it
When using "Backups" (a.k.a. deja-dup) - it doesn't find duplicity, although it's installed:
I have been trying to backup using "Backups" (a.k.a. deja-dup), and it turns out that the current ...
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How can I create an image of a partition (ext4) and later mount it to browse/restore files? [duplicate]
I'd like to backup my current Debian 9 server OS partition so I can install a clean version of Debian 10.
However, after installing Debian 10, I'd like to mount my old OS image so I can browse and ...
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Restoring Android “userdata” partition from an eMMC - Unknown filesystem
I have successfully dumped an Android (7 or 8) filesystem from an eMMC chip into file sony_xa1.img using dd.
I'm able to mount the system partition but not userdata. Using
$ sudo losetup -Prf ...
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Restore a removed file when still in use
Is there a way to restore/recover a removed file when it's still in use?
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How to fix my partition after mistaken gpart bootcode?
I was trying to make my HDD bootable and did
gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i1 ada0s1
and now I got "Invalid partition" message on boot.
/boot was from USB drive, not from HDD (...
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updates.sh - Command Not Found - Arch linux
I installed Archlabs 1 month later, today I noticed bin folder in ~ directory and Deleted it. After Reboot This errors Came out in polybar
/bin/sh: updates.sh: command not foun
And
/bin/sh: ...
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Can I restore my Linux Mint installation from external Timeshift snapshot after switching SSD?
I am using Linux Mint 19.1 "Tessa" on my laptop which has 120GB SSD. I want to change to a SSD with more storage.
I know that with the Timeshift backup utility you can make a snapshot of the system ...
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Duplicity full volume restore, missing some files and services
I'm using duplicity on Ubuntu Xenial for creating and encrypting backups and storing them on an S3 bucket (Scaleway).
This is the backup script I'm using:
#!/bin/bash
source ./.scw-configrc
HOST=`...
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criu: hello-world not working
I wanted to play around with criu, a project for checkpointing/restoring linux processes. For that I am playing around with the hello-world of criu, which is checkpointing and restoring a simple loop.
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Debian - Restore a Timezone File [duplicate]
So, I just screwed up a timezone file on my Debian system because I pointed it as a link to /etc/localtime vs. pointing /etc/localtime to it. Specifically, /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Puerto_Rico.
I'...
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I deleted my files with git rm, but i also commited them, how to get them back?
I ran git rm on some files thinking that they will be removed from the bitbucket repository, and i also commited them, after that i checked that they disapeared from the bitbucket repo, but they were ...
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Can I restore a Grub installation using dd?
I have a dual boot system with this partition layout:
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 596.2 GiB, 640135028736 bytes, 1250263728 sectors
Disk model: SAMSUNG HM640JJ
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
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How to restore partitions after renumbering?
I have read the posts and decided to follow it to do it, Change the number of the partition from sda1 to sda2, made by Joao S Veiga. I thought it would be light-risk because renumbering partitions ...
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How do I backup Chrome OS?
I tried to use Acronis Backup & Restore Universal which boot form USB media, but it doesn't work. It doesn't boot from USB removable media. It looks like Chromebooks don't have a BIOS like normal ...
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restore under RHEL 7
Say there's an application that install to /opt/ directory. I update it with yum. I do a full server backup, that is all the file systems (/opt/ maps to the root directory). Now, I discover a bug post ...
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Restore ZFS Pool and storage data after a system re-install
I recently re-installed my host OS to Mint 19 64 bit, and am now trying to get all of my external drives back online.
I had a ZFS storage pool made up of 4 1 TB disks, and set them to allow 1 drive ...
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How to restore the guest account in Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Bionic Beaver?
I have removed the guest account from the command-line using the command
sudo sh -c 'printf "[Seat:*]\nallow-guest=false\n" >/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-no-guest.conf'
How can I restore the ...
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tar restore --listed-incremental timestamp is in the future
I have some backups that were created using tar --listed-incremental features. When I restore the individual backups one after the other using tar -xf archive.tar I get no warnings but if I restore ...
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Backup and restore clonezilla linux image into a new windows based laptop
my current office laptop ( that died recently ) is configured with dual boot windows/xubuntu, because company laptop comes by default with windows. Luckily the hard disk is fine.
Now the new laptop ...
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backup with tar
I have found that I need this command to make a full backup of the Etc folder
tar cJPf /srv/dev-disk-by-label-Share/Myfiles/$(date +%F)-$(hostname)-etc-tar.xz /etc/
But what command do I need to ...
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Can I restore a Macintosh disk image using dd?
I have a clone of an entire Mac OS HDD that I created using dd, as:
sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/mint/backup/mac-backup.img
I verified the integrity of the image at creation time using diff. Now I ...
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Restoring a text (known_hosts) file
rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts
Without doing a backup of this file
Now file is empty, is there any way to recovery/restore this file ?
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Why can't I change directory to the current directory with permission denied? [duplicate]
I am trying to restore a database with the following command:
$ sudo -u postgres pg_restore -C -d dvdrental dvdrental.tar
[sudo] password for t:
However, I am receiving the following error message:...
