How do I tar into tar.bz2 a locked backup directory from the simpleconfig backup program? The backup directory is located in /home/lukasz/Downloads/backup/
View 1 Repliesusing 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
View 2 Replies View RelatedThis 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
I have a small problem with my Acer netbook (ao521) on which I dual boot windows7/ubuntu. I am new to linux and I didn't know much about dual booting so I made some errors when pratitioning and installing ubuntu (originally I had windows 7 only) but that is another issue.
The problem is that I accidently wiped the /C partition of win7 thereby deleting windows (). I had made a backup since I knew something like this could happen and I saved it in /home so now it is in /home/backup. Here it gets interesting though..I tried recovering Windows (with the built-in Acer eRecovery) and apparently this messed up Grub so I couldn't boot ubuntu..Now, I don't have a problem installing windows from scratch and then installing ubuntu afterwards (I have learned my lesson and I think I would do it right this time), but there is one folder, which contains some valuable documents and I want to access it and save the documents on a USB drive.
So, I ran ubuntu from the live cd(usb) and I mouned the /home partition (of my previous installation) and I tried accessing the backup folder that I made earlier but it said that I do not have such permission. I did some searching arround and I found out that I should mount the partition as root and copy the contents of the folder from the terminal. So far so good, but when I wrote
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sudo mount /dev/sda9
it said that no such mounting point is available in /etc/fstab.
It occured to me that I could use the data in the initial /etc/fstab (from the initial ubuntu installation) and insert what I need in the current fstab. I did that but when I write /home as mounting point it apparently confuses it with the current /home so that doesn't help.
Well my question is: how can I edit fstab so I would be able to mount the partition and use it or is there any other way to access the folder in question.
i have rhe5.4 ,in my system the user ac is not working while iam login in to root not able to login as a user and in root it shows the (X)mark not able to open this also ..
View 3 Replies View RelatedAfter an upgrade gone wrong my 9.10/10.4 is unbootable and I see no way to fix it.
I can't mount the directory now (LiveCD or chroot), it probably has something to do with the breakage and/or pre-existing ecryptfs issues, as I have both login and mount passphrases.
And it's all on one partition too, so before reinstalling I have to back up. How can I back up the encrypted directory? And can I transplant it to a fresh Ubuntu installation?
cp complains about symlinks, returning 'not permitted', is this normal?
ETA: Now that I look at it from LiveCD .ecryptfs and Private appear as broken symlinks (what do they link to anyway??), but when I tried to copy them while chrooting, they were both accessible directories (though still couldn't mount or copy) - I don't get it.
I'm looking for software that can backup all the files in my /home directory including hidden files.
I liked Lucky Backup, but it puts everything in a tar file, meaning that the backup fails if the file gets too large (4 GB I think). I would prefer to avoid using tar/archives anyway, as often I only need to recover 1 file from a backup (an archive holding my 50 Gb of data would take ages to open).
Does anyone know of a program or a way to get rsync or the like to copy all the files in a directory, including hidden files, into another directory ( so I end up with effectively a carbon copy of the original). Disk space is not an issue so I don't need to compress anything. I'm not bothered whether its a fancy GUI-based program or a rsync command, just so long as it can save my previous files from.... myself.
I wonder if there is a directory for a terminal commands that may I can backup the commands I have used in the terminal before.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI went ahead and created this directory
mkdir /tmp/rsync-backup
and, ran this
rsync av /home /tmp/rsync-backup
this is the result
rsync: link_stat "/av" failed: No such file or directory (2)
skipping directory home
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1060) [sender=3.0.7]
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)
I need to backup my /home directory because I want to switch from Fedora to OpenSUSE but I didn't put /home as a separate partition so I need to back it up. Problem is, I can't figure out how.I've tried tar and gzip through every google hit I can possibly find but not one has worked.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have carefully made daily backups using rdiff-backup, so in the case of needing to restore I can do so.
But I deleted a directory yesterday, and made a backup in the evening. Therefore, the directory is not in the latest mirror, but in the incremental backup from yesterday.
Now I need to restore the directory. But I cannot figure out how to!
I can see the directory in yesterday's incremental backup; i.e., the following works:
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Where [backupdir] is the backup (mirror) directory, and [nameofdir] is the name of the directory I'm trying to restore.
So, I have tried to restore. This is the type of thing I have tried:
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Where to-restore.lst holds the name of the directory to restore (in rdiff-backup's format) and [restoredir]is where I want the restored directory to go to.
But, I get errors like:
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Useful file specifications begin with the base directory or some pattern (such as '**') which matches the base directory. Well, obviously the file specification doesn't exist in the [restoredir]. That's because I'm trying to restore it! If I try to create an empty directory first, it complains:
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How do I restore a deleted directory from a previous day's backup to a designated destination?
I would like to have dump backup just my home directory but am having problems the command I am using wants to back every thing and takes hours upon hours it has been running for about 10 hr and only 21% is done. This is the command dump -0u -f dp_hd /media/CENTON USB/ /how can I get this to back up only my home directory
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhat's a good cron script for backing up and zipping a directory of files, or multiple directories with files, to a backup directory on my server, on a daily basis?I found an easy to use mysql backup script, now I need to backup my site directory, but not all the directories in it. So I need a method in the script to omit certain directories from backing up, ie dirs that contain gigs worth of files.This seems like it should be one of the most common crons to set a server up with but two pages deep in google (and here) I have yet to find anything remotely resembling a solution.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI've got the following code and kludge. It's working okay except that there's a directory called "Archive" which I don't need to backup. I've tried various combinations of &&, -a, etc., and I'm kind of at a loss for getting this right.
Here's the code I have so far:
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#!/bin/sh
# backup subdirs as individual tarballs with prepended timestamps and
# move them somewhere else.
# --exclude "/path/to/dir/*" (Doesn't seem to work)
[Code]...
How can I write that line so that I can loop through all of the subdirs, tarring them up, but excluding the "Archive" subdirectory?
I have installed rsnapshot from slackbuilds.How to run it to backup home directory?I'm also reading the official docs.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI want to use rsync to backup a directory on my local hard drive to a USB hard drive.
I created the initial backup with:
rsync -av /share/chris/docs/* /usb/docs
So I've finally given up on saving my kubuntu install that wont boot. I've searched, and looked, but couldn't find a thing.My delema now is to make sure that I:
a) get all of the user data safely packed up onto my external USB drive. I believe it's all in the home directory. I'm not sure about getting hidden files though...
b) get the new install to go smoothly, and not mess up grub or the parralell XP install on the same hard drive.
c) get the user data back on the computer and recreate the user structure. Permissions were messed up already, so setting those up again is not an issue.
So, I've been poking around, and this is how I think things should go:
a) tar cvpjf backup.tar.bz2 /home to get my home directory backed up. Not exactly sure how to get from here to my external hd, but I'm sure I can figure it out
b) just run a live cd of kubuntu, delete the old partitions, and reinstall over them?
c) unzip the tar into by /home directory.
That's all I've been able to find so far. How do I set up the users? Will they show up as soon as I untar? Will the resinstall play nice with my windows install? Will I get all the hidden files too? Is there anything I'm missing?
I'm trying to setup rsync to backup a remote directory to my local drive.
I cd to the directory that I want to pull the files to, then I enter:
rsync -vrtW account@remote.com:~/public_html
I enter the password then it starts running. I get all the files listed, but none of them actually transfer. What am I missing?
This should be a quick one. I'm trying to backup a single directory and it's subdirectories on my Lucid Server to a freenas box across my network. This is what I'm using to do that..
rsync -r -a -v -z * --delete freenas:dSIBackups It almost works perfectly except for one problem. When a file is deleted at the source, this command doesn't seem to delete it on the receiving end. I assumed that the --delete would do that but aparently not. Can anyone think of a reason that this would happen?
i am in need of linux help. iam at college and i need this back/restore script to pass this final part of an assessment. i require a backup script that will not only backup but also restore files to the relevent directories. e.g. users are instructed to store all wordprocessor files in a directory named wp. so i am needing to create a backup directory and 3 directories within that and some files within the 3 directories and then back them up ot restore them. l know i should/have to do this myself by been trying to get/understand info for the last few days and came up with zero.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI 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?
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:
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-- MySQL Administrator dump 1.4
--
-- ------------------------------------------------------
-- Server version`
[code]....
It seems that MySQL can open and write to the file fine, it just can't dump
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?
View 3 Replies View Relateddoes 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!
View 6 Replies View RelatedI 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!
I 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 RelatedAfter 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:
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
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'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/