Slackware :: How To Disable Backup Files
Apr 25, 2010how to disable backup files? It is kinda annoying when editing lot of files and I personally see no point having them.
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Slackware :: Backup .tgz Files ?
Jan 4, 2010I've been installing a fair amount of packages from slackbuild.org. Is it a good idea to backup the tgz files i get from building the .SlackBuild files?. I think this would save me time in case if i reinstall slack, then i can install these packages by doing just
Code:
Instead going through the whole:
1)Download source,SlackBuild script
2)Run SlackBuild script
3)finally installpkg if successful.
Will there be any problems with configurations if i don't do it from the beginning?. I thought of this because some packages took helluva time to download and compile.
Slackware :: Complete Backup Solution Ike 'Acronis True Image Backup And Recovery
Jun 12, 2010I have been looking for a complete backup solution like "Acronis True Image Backup and Recovery" on Windows for Slackware a while.
View 12 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: Restore Backup Server - Where Is The Location Backup Snapshots Or Files Are Saving
May 10, 2011I 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?
General :: Mount Point For Backup Drive - Partition To Backup The Important Files On My Main HDD
May 21, 2011I'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/
Slackware :: Backup Of Kalarm Settings
May 26, 2010I'd like to be able to backup the settings for kalarm but can't seem to find them. Same for Dolphin. Anyone know where they might be located?
View 5 Replies View RelatedSlackware :: DVD Backup Software Suggestions
Jun 30, 2010This isn't truly Slackware specific but I thought who would know better than the Slackware community. My issue is I am tired of being tech-support for my in-laws trying to keep their XP and Vista desktops functioning and would like to convert there setups to Linux. Their needs in terms of applications etc are very basic, primarily internet surfing and photos. The one application they use very frequently is a DVD backup software that runs on XP called DVD X Copy, and basically it is a one click rip and burn process for them to make backups of their DVD collection. I personally do not own and have not used such applications before so I am not familiar with some alternatives. I know of lots of programs that Rip or Burn DVD's very well but what I am looking for is a dead-simple way on Linux for them to maintain that functionality. Anything involving more than a couple steps would be challenging to them as they are very inexperienced PC users and slightly technophobic. I looked on Wine to see if the program would run under Wine but did not see it listed in the database.
View 9 Replies View RelatedSlackware :: Filesystem Errors After Backup With Dd?
Jun 11, 2010in preparation for the update to Slackware64 13.1 I did a complete backup of my system with dd.
I used the Slackware 13.0 (not 64 bit) DVD to boot and executed the command:
# dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
The command finished without any errors as expected. First I tried to boot the destination hard disk to check if the backup was successful and I can start with updating the source disk to 13.1. But at boot time I got the message that the last file system check is 197 day ago, the file system check started automatically and found errors which it could not correct. At this point I thought it was maybe a copy or a hard disk error and tried to boot the source disk. But the behaviour was exactly the same on the source disk. With the source disk I followed then the recommendation, logged in with root password and executed the recommended command which was something like e2fsck -v -h /dev/sda1. Then the system did a file system check and scrolled a lot of numbers over the screen. After a while it reported that it's ready and the system needs a restart.
I switched off and on again. Then the system bootet as usual, and seems to run okay at the moment. But now I'm unsure if really everything is okay.
What I'm confused of is, why the system reported that the last file system check was 197 days ago and why this was just after the dd backup. Shouldn't the automatic file system check at boot time run more often as every 197 days or mounts? I didn't change any default settings (as far as I know). The file system of the root partition is ext4 and my computer normally is switched on and off once every day.
My question now is, if this behaviour can have something to do with the dd backup.
Is my system after the file system check okay again, or should I expect further problems?
Slackware :: Search Harddrive For MBR Backup?
Nov 2, 2010I screwed up and managed to overwrite my MBR with one that had a different partition table, thereby losing access to all of my partitions and data. Now, I was semi-smart and backed up the MBR before I did this, but the "semi-" part is that I backed it up onto the hard drive in question because I was thinking only in terms of losing my ability to boot from the MBR, not the whole partition table.
So...as I see it my only means to recover my data is to find and recover that 512 byte block on the disk media. Having read a little bit, this seems possible given that I know to look for a) the MBR signature at offset 510, b) the partition status byte at offset 446, and c) the partition type byte at offset 450.
What I need is help figuring out the most efficient way to do this. I've experimented with a shell script using dd, hexdump, and grep, but searching 1000 blocks takes ~20seconds, so to search the whole drive (100GB) will take something like 800hrs. This is limited, I believe, by the fact that my live disk of Knoppix won't recognize a drive on the SATA bus, so I had the target drive mounted through a USB adapter. But even if it were being accessed via SATA, I have a feeling it would be pretty slow.
I need someone who is an expert to help me figure out a script, program, etc. that can search for and identify the sector where my MBR backup resides more efficiently.
Slackware :: How To Run Rsnapshot To Backup Home Directory?
Apr 24, 2010I have installed rsnapshot from slackbuilds.How to run it to backup home directory?I'm also reading the official docs.
View 3 Replies View RelatedSlackware :: Any Way To Disable Blueman?
Jul 7, 2011The blueman applet is killing my processor from time to time. The crazy part is that I do not have blue tooth installed in this system. It appears to be a bug upstream and looks like it has been reported but in the mean time is there a way to disable blueman?
View 5 Replies View RelatedSlackware :: How To Disable Cpu Throttling In 13
May 7, 2010I'm trying to install ATLAS which requires disabling cpu throttling. Normally one can do it in the BIOS, while there isn't such an option of my dell inspiron 6400. Actually there is a SpeedStep option in the BIOS, however, you cannot get the highest but the lowest performance by disabling it (dell!!!).
After googled a lot, I found in some distros, there is a /usr/bin/cpufreq-selector through which one can disable throttling. But it doesn't exists in slackware.
I known that by appending kernel option "acpi=off", one can disable the whole acpi and thus the throttling control in slackware, but it seems so dirty.
Anyone known a better way to do it?
ps: With a intel T2050 cpu, i didn't find the directory /sys/devices/system/cpu1, but only the /sys/devices/system/cpu0. Similar case in /etc/acpi. it seems that slackware treats my cpu as a single core one, while it is not.
Slackware :: How To Disable The Nouveau
May 1, 2011I want to install the Nvidia drivers because I suspect nouveau to be responsible for some system freezes. It seems that I need to disable nouveau before I can get nvidia working. How do I do this?
View 5 Replies View RelatedSlackware :: Automated Remote Backup Of Laptop Using RSnapshot?
May 25, 2010I have a machine on my network and that machine is a mass storage server that I will eventually use as a media server (to stream movies, videoclips and music on my home theater system). I use slackware 13 on ALL of my machines.
I am trying to automate the backup of the "/home" folder of my laptop onto the mass storage server. I currently use rsnapshot and it works great, but I would like to automate the whole process, even if I am not home or in front of my machines...
Here's what I imagined (in pseudo code):
1) Poll if server is active (up);
1.1) If not:
1.1.1) Wake up the server (WOL);
1.1.2) Wait for the server to boot;
1.1.3) Confirm the server has made it to the login prompt (normal boot);
1.1.3.1) If not, send an alarm via email;
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Slackware :: Trying To Install 'Gmail Backup' But It Requires Python2.5
May 9, 2011When I run the install of 'Gmail Backup' (from URL...) an error msg appears stating that I must have python2.5 - I presently have python2.8Is there any way to solve this without destroying my Slackware 13.37 installation?
View 6 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: How To Disable KTTSD In Slackware
Aug 17, 2010How to disable KTTSD in slackware linux?
View 2 Replies View RelatedSlackware :: How To Disable Akonadi On Startup
Jul 14, 2010I do not want akonadi on startup. How do I disable it?
View 5 Replies View RelatedSlackware :: How To Disable HP Device Manager
May 2, 2010I've always run as root on Slackware, but having done away with Ubuntu for now, all of my machines including the family desktop are running Slackware. There have been several ups and downs and the last one that I know of (for now) is the HP Device Manager. It doesn't run as root so I've never noticed that it drastically slows down printing via a shared printer. Disabled the system just sends it's requests to the samba/cups server and starts printing instantly. The HP Device Manager seems to go through an intialization step each time that takes several seconds before I can even hit the "print" button.
View 11 Replies View RelatedSlackware :: How To Disable Syslog Buffering
Mar 22, 2011I've been messing around with fail2ban regex and heard that you can get better performance by disabling syslogd buffering. By better performance I mean that fail2ban can detect more login failures per second than with syslogd buffering turned on.How do you disable syslogd buffering
View 2 Replies View RelatedSlackware :: How-to Disable Hdd Spinoffs On A Laptop
Aug 6, 2010I have Aspire one 752 netbook with slack 13.1 installed. I installed laptop-mode-tools from slackbuilds to control power management and etc. I'd like to make sure that sda drive in netbook never spins off when not running on batteries. For now it seems to spin down after every half a minute and is producing clicking sounds. I issued 'hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda' which seemed to work - no clicks any more, and no spinning-up sounds. What is the right way to make this change to be applied whenever netbook is on AC power?Edit: Also, how to make this 'hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda' survive hibernate, as it reverts to '96' after being resumed:
# hdparm -B /dev/sda/dev/sda: APM_level = 96Edit2: Ok, i changed hdparm -B values from 254 to 255 in laptop-mode.conf, since values of 254 and any other i tried(1, 96, 128) gave ioctl errors and were not applied to drive.
Code:
# hdparm -B 96 /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
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Server :: Take A Backup Of Files?
Jul 5, 2011We have linux base server in US. We have to take a backup of that server we access this server through SSH secure shell client software.so we have to take a backup of that server in our pc.can anybody tell us How we should take backup of all files in our pc.
View 5 Replies View RelatedSlackware :: What Is Quickest And Safest Way To Backup Root & Home Partitions?
Jul 28, 2011I would like to attempt creating a cron job to backup my root (/dev/sda1) & home (/dev/sda3) partitions to an external USB drive.I have been using Clonezilla to make image backups but, I have to physically do it, when I remember or have the time. I have never created a cron job, and worse, I have never created a .sh file which, I think, is what I need to do.
View 12 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Disable Case Sensitivity For Slackware?
Feb 19, 2010How you disable it? it makes no sense you have to type all those non capital and capital letters just to access a directory correctly.
in windows you just type the name and it detects whatever you type capital or not...
Slackware :: Cant Run Startup Command To Disable Touchpad?
Oct 12, 2010I login as root every time (its a closed system) and I am running it on a laptop. I want to disable the touch pad after typing for 4 seconds.I have tried adding this command:syndaemon -i 4 -dto rc.4, rc.local, rc.httpd, http.mysqld
View 7 Replies View RelatedSlackware :: Option To Disable The Cookies Requirement?
May 11, 2011I can manage my printer through the web browser interface in 12.2 without cookies but in 13.1 I need to allow cookies.
When did CUPS start requiring cookies to be enabled to use the web browser interface?
Is there an option to disable the cookies requirement?
Slackware :: Disable And Enable Ipv6 Connectivity?
May 7, 2011I just finished setting up my slack machine as a home server (printers & files) and I noticed that I have an IPv6 address (from ifconfig)... I didn't know I did. I used to work in tech support and when a windows or OSx machine didn't connect properly on a LAN, disabling IPV6 was a common troubleshooting step. Is there a way to easily turn inet6 connectivity off/on in Slackware? (I want to keep the ability to get an IPv6, we will all use those in the future)
View 2 Replies View RelatedSlackware :: Disable KDE Folder Preview On Desktop?
May 31, 2010On a Slack64 13.1 with stock kde :
How can I disable the folder preview which occur when the mouse stay to a folder icon on the desktop (I use "Folder view" on the desktop) ?
Similarly, is it possible to disable the popup displaying comment and help when the mouse stay over a icon shortcut to an application ? If yes, how and where ?
Slackware :: Disable Pcmcia Probing During Boot ?
Mar 29, 2010how to disable pcmcia probing during boot in Slack >= v.13? I have an Asus eeepc 1000HA with no need for pcmcia support.
View 1 Replies View RelatedSlackware :: Disable The Touchpad On A Sony VAIO
May 28, 2010Looking for opinions on what is the best way to disable the touchpad on a Sony VAIO. I just installed Slack64 13.1 and love it...
View 10 Replies View RelatedSlackware :: Disable Or Configure Udev For Initrd?
Nov 8, 2010I've recently updated my Slackware 13.1 system to the Slackware current. Although I have created my "initrd" image without specifying the "-u" option to "mkinitrd" it still starts up "udev".
That is causing me some difficulty because I am using "dmraid" to detect my RAID arrays. I had created my own device names such as "/dev/sdr2" for my root partition. With 13.1 I had no problem, since "udev" was not started by the "initrd" unless the "-u" option was provided. The current version seems to start up "udev" even without that option.
Is there a way to disable "udev" in the "initrd", or is there a way to specify custom "udev" rules for an "initrd"? I tried placing a "10-local.rules" file in the "etc/udev/rules.d" directory of the "initrd-tree" but that file had no effect on the device names generated by "udev" during the "initrd".
Here is my script that creates the "initrd".
Code:
ROOTDEVNAME="/dev/sdr2"# Name of root device
LINUXVER="2.6.35.7-smp"# Linux modules version
CLIBVER="2.12.1"# C library version
ROOTDIR="/boot/initrd-tree"# Location of root filesystm
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It will be helpful for me to understand "udev" issues related to an "initrd" because I will eventually try to use "mdadm" instead of "dmraid". So far I have only been able to get my system to boot from the RAID array using "dmraid" and I often run into new problems when I update Linux. Still, Slackware has proven to have the best support for booting from my RAID array because of the user community, documentation and flexibility.