Ubuntu :: Cancel Automatic Backup Script?
Apr 14, 2010
Linux/Ubuntu noob here so please be gentle So I own an Ubuntu server (7.10 - "gutsy") which was previously used for my small business. All setup and maintenance of this server was done by an admin who has since moved on and I can't get in touch with.As part of the setup, this admin has somehow setup the server such that whenever I plug in an external HDD (USB) it automatically runs a backup script which copies over a whole bunch of stuff to this drive.I want to cancel/delete this script as this is no longer necessary. Can anyone give me any pointers as to how I could track down where this script is and how to remove it?
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Sep 10, 2010
I wonder if anyone knows of a cross platform sync/backup utility that can do the following:
Incremental backups Revisioned backup (possibility to not just restore the latest but to go back to a specific point in time) Two way sync. E.g. two computers sync to the same server and the server also pushes changes to the clients (well I suppose it might be possible to solve it by restoring the latest backup also)
Cross platform: Linux, Windows & Mac (the server side may be Linux only)
Basically I want a revisioned version of Unison or a local version of Dropbox with support for custom folders. Depending on how you see it.
I'm not afraid to script things together if no pre-built solution exists but there are tools that when combined might do this. However it must be possible to automate, this comes from the fact that I want to be able to schedule it so it performs automatically. (If there is a way to push changes to the computers, like Dropbox, that's a plus but not a requirement.) This also means that a command line utility might be preferable over a GUI-only one.
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Feb 8, 2016
Like topic, I want to create a weekly backup of some folder to anoter partition (or external usb), compressed or not (folder also of 20/30 gb), with only root permission on file (or folder) created..This system, where I have installed debian jessie, is always on being used like a NAS..
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Jul 18, 2011
I am trying to find a backup program to incrementally backup some files to an external disk every week for example. I would prefer not to have to write a script as I am not really used to it.
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Jun 20, 2011
i am not familialized with Linux i installed recently a TACACS+ server under CentOS 5.5 and it is working well but my boss asked me to make a weekly backup of the tacacs.log file to check who was connected at any time the problem is that i don't know how tp make this backup and how to make it automatic and also he asked me to change the default port of tacacs from 49 to another port does someone knows how to make it?
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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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Jun 9, 2010
I created a profile for Yast Backup and successfully executed it manually. However, when I set up the Automatic Backup with the same profile it doesn't work. It will start at the scheduled time and do the "search" part of it but it hangs before it creates the archive. These two processes (backup_cron & y2base) remains running and never terminates.
Here are the last few lines in the Yast log before it hangs:
Code:
2010-06-09 20:08:05 <1> londy(1957) [YCP] backup/ui.ycp:2037 subprocess started: true (PID: 1958)
2010-06-09 20:08:05 <1> londy(1957) [YCP] backup/ui.ycp:1827 Reading installed packages
2010-06-09 20:08:18 <1> londy(1957) [YCP] backup/ui.ycp:1735 Number of installed packages: 1281
2010-06-09 20:09:17 <1> londy(1957) [YCP] backup/ui.ycp:1842 Searching in packages started
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Aug 6, 2010
Currently, I would like to setup an automatic backup system, where the data on my computer is copied to an external harddisk which is connected to the router (Siemens SE551). This device theoretically allows setting up a file server, but unfortunately I can't access the share from Linux. I have not yet tried to access this share from Windows.
The rough plan is to use rsync and ssh, issued by a cronjob on both, my Ubuntu- and on my WinXP-notebook. But before considering this, I have to get my system connected with this drive.
BTW: I am using Ubuntu 10.4.
According to the SE551 manual [URL], NAS is not provided.
I followed this manual and set security OFF. According to the router's web interface, the device was recognized correctly.
I installed samba:
Code:
gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
#
# Sample configuration file for the Samba suite for Debian GNU/Linux.
#
#
# This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the
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Mar 22, 2010
Right now I am trying to fix the problems on my server with daemons not starting.
So I have to try different solutions and reboot.
The problem is that after 28 reboots, fsck kicks in and decides to check 2 TB of data.
Is there a way to cancel this???
It takes forever, and by the time it will be done, I will have forgotten what I was testing.
The issue of daemons not starting becomes even more frustrating when fsck decides that I must take a half an hour break.
So again, how do I cancel the fsck on Ubuntu Server?
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May 11, 2010
my comp hangs when disk check reaches 91% and pressing C to cancel does nothing. from irc-#ubuntu i was given this "sudo tune2fs -c 0" to cancel all future disk checking but it did not work. my drive is 2 months old.
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