General :: Nightly Backup To An Usb Device?
Jan 20, 2011
I have Mandriva 2006 on a computer that I regularly backup important directories every night to a flash drive. I use Cron for my backup with scheduled backups nightly. For my script file to do the backup, there is a line that says to copy these directories to /media/sda/backup, so I figure it was copying to the sda named usb device. Well it wasn't. It is copying to the /media/sda/backup directory on my harddrive. But I would like to copy it to a usb device. How do I find out the name of my usb device that I have plugged in?
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Jan 26, 2010
I have a really quick question-I would like to set up some type of scheduled event to back up my entire /home folder to a USB drive.I know about all of the various programs such as simple backup, etc. and have used them before. As far as I know, these programs cant do what Im trying to do.Does anyone know what I could use to back up my files at a specific time to a specific USB device?Preferably, I would like to just have a simple
Code:
sudo cp /home /media/Cruzer
run every night at, say, 2am.
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Feb 2, 2010
I have been looking around online and I am seeing that there are several solutions for doing a nightly automated backup on Linux. I was wondering what people here actually use for doing such and why they use one particular backup method over another.
What I am looking to do is every night (at say 3am) I want my system to backup my 200gig Documents folder to my external hard drive. Does Ubuntu have a tool built in by default to do this or do I need to add something from the repos/online?
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Jan 30, 2011
I have 2 'how-to's' with rsync neither are working. I need to backup nightly some items and using a command line, I am prompted with a password, enter and it works. I now tried these 2 items in the shell script, both of them still when run prompt for a password. I have tried;
#!/bin/bash
export RSYNC_PASSWORD=passwordhere
- and -
also created a blank file called pw (to test) and then tried
#!/bin/bash
rsync --password-file=/pw xxxx
Both of those options when run still prompt for a password. These severs are running old RH9 servers.
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Jan 20, 2011
I am using Cron for nightly backups to a usb device. I was just wondering in my script for the backup, how do I find the location of my usb device.
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Sep 7, 2010
I am looking for a piece of hardware that would be able to run Linux and act as a web, subversion and file server. Ideally it shouldn't have any fans, because it will be in the middle of my living room, the computing power needs are minimal. I would be grateful for recommendations.
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Nov 19, 2010
I am a Mac user since 1988. I recently discovered Linux Ubuntu and love it. So much that I use it about 95% of the time. On the Mac there is an application I use called Superduper which makes a bootable backup to an external USB drive.
Can I do the same kind of thing using the dd command? I use the excellent Cron GUI Scheduled Tasks. I was hoping that maybe I can use that to schedule nightly bootable backups. Is dd the right tool to use? Once the initial backup is done (which I understand can take a long time), does dd do incremental backups after that.
Looking forward to how I can set this up so that I can just set and forget reassured that bootable backups are occurring overnight.
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Jul 5, 2011
I got Thunderbird 5.0a2 Beta because it had the file that runs it in there, but I can't find it anywhere in the Firefox Nightly Build one. There's also no config file in there either, and I don't want to replace my Aurora 6.0a2 Beta with the very unstable Alpha until I try it out. I would try it in the Virtual Machine but it'd take too long to set it all up.
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I downloaded the .bz2 file and Archiver extracted it for me. I remember in Slackware you just use installpkg on .bz2 files... Or was it .gz... I forget, anyway, how can I run Nightly-Build? Run-Mozilla.sh opens my Aurora browser.
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Dec 5, 2010
I would like to make a backup of my /home directory onto a NAS device, and have whatever software is used for the purpose update (new and changed files) every night, or perhaps everytime there is a period of inactivity. Any suggestions for a GUI package that will do this?
I do not want a complete backup each time, just the new or changed files. Also prefer software that backs up to a mirror of the original (i.e., uncompressed folders and files)
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Sep 15, 2009
I am trying to create a backup script that will back up a single folder for a class i am in. I was wandering if I could get some help. If possible I would also like to know how to write a script that can encrypt that same file . I will be putting the back up in my /home/usr/Backup directory. I am not trying to back up my whole system just a single folder. I am using Fedora 11
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May 21, 2011
I'm just setting up a partition on a seperate HDD in my system. I plan to use the partition to backup the important files on my main HDD (to guard against HD crash).
The question I have is about where would be the typical location to auto mount this partition? Which would it be normal to go for:
1. /backup/
2. /media/backup/
3. /mnt/backup/
4. /home/chris/backup/
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Apr 13, 2011
While on the 32 bit version i haven't problem. I use different profile for the stable and the nigthly versions. Note: I use the binary taken directly from mozilla and update regulary it directly from the browser. On the attachment you can see what should be appear after the update.
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Sep 13, 2010
Can some one give me a sample of a crontab for backing a directory please, System is Ubuntu 9.04Quote:
#!/bin/bash
# this file is an automated backup script, backup.sh.
# this backs up my domain site.
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Apr 14, 2010
i want to make sure my mail server is behaving as expected. the past two nights, i've received logwatch notices below. the section in question is the 20 or so deferrals from some .ru e-mail address. i've since removed the user that registered on my wordpress blog (wlvp@yandex.ru) and added the three IP address to iptables DROP, but these "e-mails" still look like they're in some queue unless i'm reading wrong. i've removed known usernames in case you find the numbers useful. why are all these deferred messages here? if they're stuck in a queue, can i remove them?
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Aug 23, 2011
I've bought an X10 Home Automation USB interface: the CM15.
This is the information lsusb gives:
skerit@KIP-DU-SKER:~$ lsusb Bus 008 Device 002: ID 0bc7:0001 X10 Wireless Technology, Inc. ActiveHome (ACPI-compliant)
But this tells me nothing about where the device file is! How can I find that, or create one myself?
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Jan 14, 2011
I've got Chromium set up for nightly build updating on my Ubuntu 10.04 and I do run Update Manager daily. Lately, I get the message "The Flash plug-in was blocked because it is out of date." It gives me the option to "Run this time" or "Update plug-in." Is this a Chromium nightly build "to be expected" problem, or should I truly try to update Flash? If it's Flash that needs updating, what should I add to my Software Sources to get this newer Flash that I'm not getting normally?
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May 28, 2011
backing out of a "nightly build" repo? In my case I'm doing Chromium from a "nightly build" PPA. I'm thinking this isn't such a good idea anymore. I'd like to get "latest, greatest" but not this incessant nightly build, which I'm fairly sure is giving me a buggy Chromium more than not. How can I gracefully back out of nightly and into just the regular latest repo?
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Mar 23, 2010
I just set up a FC 12 server and would like to disable the nightly YUM update. However, it appears that the following doesn't work:
# service yum stop
# chkconfig yum off
the system prompts: yum: unrecognized service
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Mar 17, 2011
I just compiled my first own kernel (I'm using Arch Linux), following the tutorial on the german site. Now I tried to boot it, I ended up failing with this message: Code: Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/sda1 ... Root device '/dev/sda1' doesn't exist, Attempting to create it. ERROR: Unable to determine major/minor number of root device '/dev/sda1' Here is the important part of my menu.lst:
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I simply copy&pasted the Arch-entry, i.e. I also had the disk by uuid there. The failure message was the same, just the root device name was the different name Also, at first I did not have the initrd line in my menu.lst (as written in my tutorial that I may not need it). In this case I had this error message:
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May 18, 2010
using Back In Time to backup my home directory to a second hdd that is mounted at /media/backupThe trouble is, I can do this using Back In Time (Root), but not using Back In Time without the root option. This is definitely a permissions issue - it can't write to the folder, but when I checked by right clicking on the backup directory and looking at the permission tab, it said I was the owner
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May 10, 2011
I install and tested Restore EE Backup server on a test PC with basic configuration and its working fine.
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The issue i have is where is the location these backup snapshots or files are saving? I want to add a separate Storage to save the backup?
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Jun 12, 2010
I have been looking for a complete backup solution like "Acronis True Image Backup and Recovery" on Windows for Slackware a while.
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Jan 15, 2010
After I spent some time discovering The BIG BANG of Universe and The Meaning of Life :
I managed somehow to create a script to make some backup of files on server and TAR it and then FTP the archive to another location FTP server and then emails result.
It also measures time needed to complete it and deletes archive older than XX days (set in find -mtime +20) and makes incremental backup every weekday and FULL on Sundays (which suits me bcoz no heavy load).
Files for TAR to include and exclude are in txt files listed each line separate name:
file: including.txt:
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Nov 10, 2010
This script simply deletes files older than a certain age (in this case 7 days) from a certain location; I use it to purge old backups nightly, and it works as expected:
# delete backups older than 7 days
find /mnt/backup/* -mtime +7 -exec rm -Rf {} ;
The problem is, every morning I get an email with an error message something like this:
find: `/mnt/backup/subfolder': No such file or directory
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Jan 19, 2010
I have a scheduled backup to run on our server at work and since the 7/12/09 it has be making 592k files instead of 10Mb files, In mysql-admin (the GUI tool) I have a stored connection for the user 'backup', the user has select and lock rights on the databases being backed up. I have a backup profile called 'backup_regular' and in the third tab along its scheduled to backup at 2 in the morning every week day. If I look at one of the small backup files generated I see the following:
Code:
-- MySQL Administrator dump 1.4
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-- ------------------------------------------------------
-- Server version`
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It seems that MySQL can open and write to the file fine, it just can't dump
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Feb 2, 2011
I've tried to google but not much luck. What I would like to do is have anumber of folders on my desktop and their contents, replicated/duplicated into another folder on the same PC in real time. So for example, if I were to change an OpenOffice document in a specific folder on my Desktop it would be replicated/duplicated in real time. If I had three folders on my Desktop A, B and C they would also appear/be backed up (in real time) in a folder called /home/backup. Can this be done?
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Aug 10, 2011
I want to make a backup from my Email and my Favorites from Mozilla.
But which folders I have to make a backup from.
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Jun 30, 2010
does anyone know of a good backup software for Ubuntu 10.4 that will let me select which folders to backup, rather than a complete backup? My install and settings etc can be replaced, but my photos and memories cannot!
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Sep 1, 2011
I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 onto HP EliteBook 8540w notebook and would like to backup the entire disk using some popular backup tool.
I have searched in the internet and found the closest tool is PartImage. But the bad news is that it does not support ext4 fs!
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May 10, 2010
Does anyone know of any decent enterprise level backup solutions for Linux? I need to backup a few servers and a bunch of desktops onto one backup server. Using rsync/tar.gz won't cut it. I need like bi-monthly full HDD backups, and things such as that, with a nice GUI interface to add/remove systems from the backup list. I need basically something similar to CommVault or Veritas. Veritas I've used before but it has its issues, such as leaving 30GB cache files. CommVault, I have no idea how much it is, and if it supports backing up to a hard drive rather than tape.
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