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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Snapshot large changing files
At home I have the following backup scheme: All machines daily rsync to the servers $FULL_COPY directory. The server takes snapshots of that directory daily (also weekly/monthly), keeping at most X ...
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Periodically sync local folders using rsync (no symlinks!)
I am using Dropbox to have an online backup of some data. However I want to encrypt my data before uploading it to Dropbox. Therefore I have created a TrueCrypt container and I am using rsync to ...
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best backup software for debian 7 [closed]
how to do long term backup (about 4 years) online. Because my HDD is going to die. I use Debian 7
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What is the difference between a tar of a complete filesystem and an image?
I can create an image of a filesystem, or I can create a tar-file containing all of it. Is an image therefore something like a tar-archive? Or do these two types differ in more ways?
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How to use redobackup without free partition
I had a spare 250GB drive a while ago from an old Windows Vista computer. There wasn't much data on the drive. I wanted to use it for a new OS in my computer, and I was in a rush to use it, so I ...
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Make bootable USB using Linux partition
I have my Linux system running on laptop. I have installed the packages that I need.
How can I now do a backup, creating an ISO image that I can burn to USB drive in case my system cannot boot and I ...
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ecryptfs mounted via command line, what do I need to backup?
I asked this question on the ecryptfs launchpad, but it expired there without answer.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ecryptfs-utils/+question/235226
It might be trivial, but I really ...
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rsync all files of remote machine over SSH without root user?
I have this command to backup a remote machine. The problem is that I need root rights to read and copy all files. I have no root user enabled for security reasons and use sudo the Ubuntu way. Would I ...
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Find: who write backups
I have some daemon which writes Mongo and MySQL backups to the directory /opt/BACKUP, but I dont know - what kind of daemon, when it works and where i can find its settings?
These files are in the ...
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Is using rsync while source is being updated safe?
Is it safe to use rsync when the source filesystem is mounted and writeable, assuming that it may very well be modified while rsync is running? I presume that under race conditions I may not get the ...
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Any reason not to use LUKS on a backup drive?
I have my hard disk encrypted with LUKS, but I make regular backups to an unencrypted external harddrive. Is there any reason I shouldn't setup LUKS on my backup drive as well?
Obviously, the big ...
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Cleanup of temporary file ~/.cache/duplicity/temp failed
Often when I run Duplicity I see an error message like this at the end of the run:
Cleanup of temporary file ...
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Debian 7.1: duplicity error when using gdocs backend
I've installed duplicity backup tool plus python-gdata library on my debian 7.1 amd64 system.
When I want to use duplicity to store my documents on Google Drive, it shows this error after asking for ...
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What file systems support taking snapshot backups from a live system?
What file systems allows me to take a full snapshot of a full live partition, while active, in a state where all files have the same state as when the backup/snapshot process start ?
I want to be ...
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How to create an installable liveCD backup of my system (keep all installed packages but not home directories)
What tool should be used to do this? I have taken a look a remastersys but the image it generated wasn't installable. (I could just boot it, and login, although all my packages were installed). If ...
