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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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I have a computer with a 1000GB nvme and a 500GB nvme. I installed and fully setup the 500GB with Ubuntu 24 LTS, and all my apps. I chose LVM and encryption in the Ubuntu installer, and then created ...
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I'd like to know the steps I need to take to use youtube-dl to backup my youtube videos after a certain date range. I see commands that can be written but do not know how to get in to youtube-dl so ...
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I have an old Lenovo ThinkCentre to which I have attached a dual-bay, USB hard drive enclosure. The two hard drives are independent from each other (i.e., no RAID). I have them mounted like so: /mnt/...
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Most backup solutions save files that are not needed for individual file restore, e.g. caches. To avoid this, subvolumes can be used, but are restricted to subtrees. Full backup is more arduously then....
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In the context of backups, a snapshot is atomic to ensure a quite consistent set of files. If two subvolumes are used, e.g. @root and @home, they might differ the longer the time is between the ...
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Is it a good idea to add an empty file, say a file called NOT_MOUNTED, into mountpoint directory when the backup storage device is not mounted? Or will this be confusing? Is a symlink better, that ...
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I made an account with rsync.net for backups but am having issues setting them up with the GNOME Project's Pika Backup. I set the location as: ssh://<username>@<username>.rsync.net/~/...
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This is a bit long winded but I want to give as much information as I can. I have a Synology NAS running DSM 7.2.2: steve@NAS:/volume1/docker/backuppc-mdns$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/syno_hw_version DS223j ...
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I attempted to backup and restore the data for Spacebar within my Debian installation. However, it does not appear to work properly. I think I must have accidentally changed the permissions. Are ...
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I have a GNU/Linux installation with an unencrypted primary partition (boot partition) and a LUKS primary partition containing two LVM logical volumes (root filesystem and swap space): /dev/sda1: (...
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I've backed up a Fedora 42 installation using tar, and now I am trying to restore the backup to a different drive on the same system, basically cloning the original installation. The original ...
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I have a script which does incremental backups with rsync (script 1). I tried to add the feature to continue unfinished jobs in another script (script 2) but this version does a full copy of the ...
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I want to backup my messages within KDE's Spacebar so that I may do a full system reinstallation. How can I backup my messages and restore them into a new installation?
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I would like to backup my Librem 5 using jumpdrive. How can I create a full system backup of my Librem 5 using jumpdrive?
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I am attempting to complete a full system backup of my Librem 5. Can I utilize Déjà Dup to back up my entire system? Deja Dup is preinstalled on the system as 'Backups'. I want to include app data—...
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I have a 4 TB hard drive containing pictures, sounds, and videos from the last 15 years. These files were copied onto this drive from various sources, including hard drives, cameras, phones, CD-ROMs, ...
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Summary: I need to automatically backup files on a hidden hard disk whenever the user copy files on a specific hard disk. Long explanation: Context: My father (70 years old) is very bad at computers. ...
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I wonder if ~/.local/share contain real user data or if it only contain session-related data and binary generated stuffs. I also wonder if I can include it in an --ignore statement with BorgBackup ...
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In my current setup, I have two machines serverA and serverB in different geographical areas. serverA has a limited amount of persistent memory (~256GB), while serverB can be considered to have enough ...
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I have a folder with around seventy subfolders, each containing a few tarballs which are nightly backups of a few directories (the largest being /home) from an old Raspberry Pi. Each is a full backup; ...
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I have setup a Google Cloud Storage bucket for my Duplicity backups. The bucket has a retention policy of 1 year. Today Duplicity got interrupted while doing the backups, and now, every time I want to ...
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My backup strategy currently primarily consists of daily backups of all of my machines with Borg Backup, stored on different storage devices in different locations, following the 3-2-1 strategy. These ...
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I accidentally rsynced (with symlink following) my entire / to another disk. I was running rsync as a regular user. Realizing my mistake, I wanted to clean up the backup. It deleted all the files, ...
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There is my home directory and its backup on the remote cluster.I used rsync command to check if home directory and its backup are completely identical: rsync -rvnc data/ data2 >rsync_out-4.txt 2&...
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I have a backup from my home directory which was created under Fedora 40 (which was configured by my previous employer). Now I have a new SSD in my laptop on which I want to use Fedora 41 with the ...
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I'm running on Debian 11 and have used Deja Dup so far to backup the most important stuff. I've connected the app to my gdrive that finished backups are automatically uploaded. As of lately the backup ...
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I was delinting a smb.conf and it occurred to me that oplocks = no level2 oplocks = no is because the server's backup solution accesses the shared files not through the cifs filesystem module. Which ...
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I've set up my backup using Rsnapshot. After 3 days I have this: 196 GB /backup 3 GB /backup/daily.0 191 GB /backup/daily.1 2 GB /backup/daily.2 Why is the 2nd backup the one with most data (...
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I want to create backups of my running KVM VMs using virsh (qcow2). The VMs don't have snapshots, but in order to create a clean backup I want to create a snapshot, back up the backing file then ...
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I am using mksquashfs tool to backup Ubuntu's root before reinstalling the system: sudo mksquashfs / root.squashfs -ef "/home/admin/squashfs_root/exclude.txt" But nowhere in the ...
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One the directories in my machine has a high turn-over of very large files, so as I was snapshotting the file-system, those files began to fill-up my hard-drive. I transformed it into a btrfs ...
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I use Borgmatic(version 1.9.5) in order to dump backups (fs & databases). TODO this, I must create 2 backups repositories : local folder and cloud storage. Into my machine, the archive is ...
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Every time I try running sudo rsnapshot -v alpha I get this type of error(it errors for every backup entry I have): ERROR: /usr/bin/rsync returned 255 while processing [email protected]:/etc/ ...
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Situation: three servers, primary (source of data to be backed up), store (storage for backup), secondary (target to restore onto). I'd like to make sure that my workplace secondary always has data ...
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I have an Ubuntu VPS backup from which I need to pull MySQL data. I was trying to install mysql on my Arch linux machine and copy the /var/lib/mysql files from the backup to my system. However, I ran ...
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With Timeshift, is there a way to include only a sub-directory? Example: Exclude /var but include /var/lib/libvirt/images I've tried some combinations but doesn't works! There is an example:
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Want to backup my datavg volume group to NAS drive using Redhat "Relax and Recover (ReaR)" tool. I need some help with the configuration file #lsblk sdb 8:16 0 100G 0 disk ├─myvg-...
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I have a nightly backup that transfers about 100gb of data from AIX server A to AIX server B using the following command in a script. tar cf - ./DATA | ssh server_b 'cd /DISKCOPY ; tar xf - ' This ...
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Say I have a large directory tree of large files on disc A. I backup that tree with rsync -a --delete /A /B. So far so good. Between backups there are some added files, some renamed ones, the usual. ...
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I have made a backup B1 on my external hard drive on date D. This hard drive is now in a different location (not at my house). Now I want to make a backup B2 on another external drive, but only of ...
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We are experiencing a swap consumption problem when backing up our database. Every evening at 01am we run the mariabackup command and during the process swap usage rises sharply until it reaches 100% ...
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I'm in a situation where I want the kind of guarantees of getting every bit of data and metadata about a tree of files that might normally require using dump/restore. I need everything uids, gids, ...
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I'm facing an issue with a production server running Ubuntu 24.04. We use Acronis, but it only works with kernel 5.10 and earlier, while Ubuntu currently uses 6.8, which is not compatible with the ...
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What files would be good to copy from the main drive to backup drive? I have a script that compresses and sends files such as document,pictures,etc. I have heard about copy /home/me/. Would that be ...
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BACKGROUND: I have been endeavouring to update my Android tablet with different versions of this script and even before I set my mind on realising this script in particular and have been at it for ...
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I have an application which is making automatic daily backups at 11pm in a directory dirA. Each backup is a single .tar file, and has an apparently random naming convention that I don't have control ...
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I recently (today) installed Linux Mint for the first time. I made my backup on a pendrive, but when I tried unzipping the backup file I made, it gave me the following error: End-of-central-directory ...
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I'm using rsync to back up my home directory: time rsync -iia --append-verify --progress --exclude cloudDrive/ /home /usr/local/share/applications /etc/yum.repos.d /home/user/cloudDrive/Backups/"...
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Now that Knotes from KDE has been killed, buried, wiped from rolling release distros repositories, and also from my computer when trying to reinstall it while ignoring the situation, how can I get my ...
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Thats what I tried after anything else: snap refresh --list sudo apt-get install deja-dup "I had to end the process (either through kill or using the system monitor app), and I was then able to ...
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