Questions tagged [restore]
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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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Firehol filepath to restored firewall
FireHOL[27113]: FAILED to activate the firewall from /etc/firehol/firehol.conf.
Last good firewall restoration: OK.
Where is the restored firewall configuration? I find no hints neither in debug nor ...
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Restore Linux System from rescued root and home partition raw images
Because of a failing SSD I have rescued my root and home partition using ddrescue.
The distro is Antergos.
I know it's not supported anymore but I want to try to set up a system using these images. ...
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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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Debian — XFCE4 panel backup [closed]
The problem is the following.
I have xfce4 and I have configured my panels on my machine (source machine).
I have an other machine (dest machine) running also under the same distribution and same DE ...
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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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mount: filesystem mounted but any subsystem operation failed: no such file or directory. — on OS load
My distro is ALt Linux with KDE5.
I've got the following error on OS load just before the login screen:
mount: filesystem was mounted but any subsystem operation failed: no
such file or ...
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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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Backup OS and GRUB before changing distro
I'd like to change my current distribution to some other distribution - especially I had to do a lot of experiments and would like to clean it up a bit. Before starting migration though I'd like to ...
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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:...
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How to restore the “Applications” menu of Ubuntu Mate 18.04?
I was editing menu (rearranging a few shortcuts) when something went wrong and the machine got frozen. Upon hard-resetting I found the "Applications" menu to be completely empty. No way to edit it as ...
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How to replace btrfs root subvolume with received snapshot?
I want to convert my existing full-disk btrfs (unpartitioned) filesystems to bcache.
To do so, I need to move data around and reformat the drives.
I have enough hdd space to do it in a couple steps.
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CRIU for non-root users
CRIU doesn't support in non-root user environment, to my knowledge. Does anyone have got a patch for this?
-a Linux enthusiastic.
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Will tar overwrite my home folder
I'm using tar to backup and restore my Ubuntu system.
For my Ubuntu system, I mount / to dev/sda1 and mount /home to dev/sda2. I want to backup or restore / without /home.
To backup, I execute
cd ~ ...
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rsync and NTFS external drive
I noticed recently that backups I have on two different NTFS-formatted external drives, that were supposed to be identical, are actually not. And none of them is identical to the data that's on the ...
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How to recover deleted files in Ubuntu 14.04 [duplicate]
Recover Deleted Fils in Ubuntu 14.04
Last night I made a horrible mistake on my Ubuntu 14.04 machine and I deleted the directory that contained my project's Javascript files. All the files where in ....
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rolling back a set of changes made from a certain date/time
We are trying to install an application on Ubuntu and RHEL, which requires a number of steps, for e.g. install Tomcat, deploy war files, make changes to routes, change configuration files etc. Often, ...
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Boot time has drastically increased after restoring partition
I have made a backup of my Linux Mint Xfce partition and I have restored it (all with "Disks" - gnome-disks) twice. (More here). The partition includes all the system (no separate partitions between /...
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Debian: I'm unable to log in + can't boot properly after system backup and restore
I used to copy my system/config files from lvm-based /dev/mapper/devuan--vg-root + /dev/mapper/devuan--vg-home partitions into external storage and moved them to a fresh btrfs partition after ...
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How to restore GRUB after restoring Debian from backup?
I need to make a backup my Debian VPS server and create it copies on Virtual Machines. I'm following instructions on page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem/TAR.
Steps:
I've done a ...
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How to restore permissions with BackInTime/rsync?
Apparently BackInTime, which uses rsync, doesn't just restore permissions when restoring files but also saves them separately to the data. Is it possible to restore permissions of specific directories ...
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I overwrote all libraries in /lib64 by accident, how to fix?
I accidentally used windows copy syntax when copying libraries from one folder to another:
mv /usr/local/lib/libboost** /lib64/*
This overwrote all libraries needed to run the system. The only ...
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dd image too large to recover
I made an image with dd
sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/path_to_external_drive/backup.img
Now I wanted to recover the system after the mount of all partitions went smoothly. When I make
sudo dd if=backup....
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restore after “git rm”
I initialized git repo in some_dir_path with git init. After that, I decided not to include all files into repo and issued git rm -f. As I thought, it would remove all files from git repo, not from ...
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How could you possibly preserve file ownership in a backup (/etc)?
I've seen a number of sources suggest it can be useful to back up /etc. E.g. the presentation "Supporting Debian machines for friends and family".
For any serious backup, we also need a well-defined ...
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How do you back up all settings and themes (not the files)
I have installed the Gmac distro which is like macbuntu with gnome. I have messed it up before and couldn't work out how to get it back to looking like a mac. I just want to backup the appearance ...
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What to do with extundelete recovered files
So, i accidentally delete my files. I attempt to recover files using extundelete with --restore-all options. Inside the RECOVERED_FILES directory i got files.xxxxx which i think is inode file.
My ...
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How to backup GPT partitions and file systems only (no files/folders)?
For the purpose of disaster recovery we do wish to backup:
GPT partition table,
disk geometry (to restore to different sizes drives)
and the corresponding file systems of each partition.
For ...
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How to move OS image on a device to another device?
I am running CentOS 7 on a HDD disk drive.
For some reasons, I want move the OS image on HDD to a new SSD.
(Using SSD as data storage is not an option, for some reasons)
How can I copy the existing ...
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LVM Volume Group MetaData Corruption - Please Help
I have a server that was set up using LVM. It ran for years just fine with out issue until about 10 days ago. When I tried to log into it, the server had crashed. When we look at the server using a ...
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Overwrote 60MB of mounted filesystem from other filesystem with dd
I had mounted ext4 filesystem (/dev/sdg1) and accidentally did dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdg and CTRL-C after 1 second, so only 60 MB data has been transferred.
/dev/sda1 has ext3 root filesystem.
What I ...
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Back up boot records, partition metadata and data into a single archive file
Back in the days I have used Acronis (commercial software) which was great.
You could create a backup of a hard drive which resulted in one single file.
That file contained all the information ...
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Software reccomendation: diff based restore points
i'm looking for software that lets me create multiple restore points that allow me to go back to these points and have my system be in the exact same state as when these restore points were taken.
I ...
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Restore files from external USB after deleting .git [closed]
I have 20 years of work on my USB. After deleting .git files. I ran this command in the terminal:
sudo find . | grep .git | xargs rm -rf
I lost all folders and files.
When I look in Finder I was ...
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How can I keep permissions on original files when restoring backups with Duplicity?
When restoring files backed up by Duplicity, is there a way to keep the original permissions on the files extracted? I need to run the restore as root, and it seems that makes all the files restored ...
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How to backup a large multi-partition hard-disk towards a small one?
In order to help someone else to learn to get used to Linux -- and get out of the Windows version downward spiral --, I need to install Debian Linux GNOME exclusively on a Laptop. However, for the ...
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centOS: full file system backup and restoration [duplicate]
I have a dedicated server with centOS. I need to do a full system backup, save backup file on server and download a copy of that backup file to my personal computer (local computer in office).
From ...
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BTRFS restoring snapshot
I've installed Elementary OS on BTRFS then made a snapshot to /home/BACKUP. Now I've did some things and I have to restore that snapshot. I've tried to set the default subvolume to the snapshot with ...
