Ubuntu :: How To Back Up My Old Data Before I Reinstall
Oct 22, 2010
Okay so I made a mistake and I have to reinstall Linux (see: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1602329)
Since I can no longer boot to my existing installation (the graphical version OR the text version), I am having trouble saving off what I don't want to lose.
Can I boot from the CD and get to my stuff through there? I am in the CD version of Mint right now (posting this) and I cannot navigate to /home/myusername/ (obviously). So where would I find those files?
Do I have to mount that partition or something? It looks like a lot of my stuff is mounted already in this CD version... which worries me.
An alternative is that I still have Windows 7 installed that I can boot to if needed. If thats a way to extract my files I am all for it.
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Nov 26, 2010
How will I go about getting the linux Dual boot screen back
ubuntu 10.10 desktop
Win XP H.E.
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Mar 19, 2011
I am running Ubuntu 10.10 and I have been keeping it updated via update manager.Last night the update manager popped up and I selected to update all required updates without checking what the updates were.While shutting down I noticed that I needed to reboot to complete the update, so I rebooted.After reboot the wireless network card disappeared. So I moved the PC and plugged in the ethernet cable. Oddly sometimes it shows disconnected for no reason and I have to reboot.What's even worst is that Ubuntu now locks up completely within 15 minutes of a reboot.None of the alt+sysrq commands do anything!How do I find out what the updates were and is there any way to I revert my system back to pre updates without having to reinstall?
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May 3, 2011
How do I reinstall Ubuntu without wiping my personal data files?
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Nov 11, 2009
I am getting kernel panics multiple times per day. I want to reinstall Fedora but the only option is to "replace existing Linux system," "shrink current system," "use entire drive," "use free space," and "create custom layout." Which one will reinstall without compromising my data?
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Aug 9, 2010
My filesystem (software RAID 0):
Filesystem...... Size....... Used....... Avail....... Use%....... Mounted on
/dev/md1........ 9.7G....... 2.8G....... 6.5G....... 31%....... /
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Feb 12, 2010
Allot of Crazy things happened lately. A few problems happened and I fixed them. In the end I have 3 partitions of ubuntu net book remix and 1 for windows 7. I never reinstalled windows so could I do a system restore (in windows)to go back and then reinstall 1 partition of ubuntu net book remix.
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Jan 15, 2010
i have ubuntu 9.04 i want to know if i can do a partition base on what i have right now cause when i installed ubuntu i didnt do the partition to install windows so i want to do it now or in any case how can i reinstall ubuntu again without loosing my data store in my hard drive what is best to be perform in my pc i am very happy with ubuntu and wanna keep with it but sometimes a have some app in windows
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Jul 29, 2010
So I am working on a clients PC, and after I saved their data on an external hard drive I left it plugged in while I reinstalled Windows for them.....I HATE Windows. Stupid OS doesnt know any better than to just go deleting everything. Ubuntu would have known better than to delete multiple hard drives like that.
Anyway, please tell me I can salvage this data for my client? It was probably just reformatted. The data should still be there right?
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Sep 21, 2010
I have a problem I don't know how to solve. Today I bought a netbook and while waiting for the new Ubuntu Unity release to come out, I thought of trying out Crunchbang instead of Windows that came with it. Browsing on my Ubuntu desktop machine, I found a guide for making Crunchbang live USB stick, and i followed the procedure. However, I made a very stupid mistake. The guide said I should enter the command:
sudo dd if=/path/to/iso/crunchbang-10-alpha-01-openbox-i686.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M;sync
where "of=...." part should be replaced with the name of the HDD. I forgot that I have an external HDD mounted and mistakenly copied the data to it.
After this, I cannot see the content of my external HDD anymore. Instead, i have this 620mb large Crunchbang-install device.
I know what I did was stupid, but is there a way to get the content of my HDD back? I have some valuable data on it.
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Jan 26, 2010
I was trying to free some memory as my /var was about to fill.I went to Add /remove software and ried to remove some of the unwanted software and it asked for dependency and i clicked ok.After a while i saw some of my aplication like Evolution,Empathy blackening and i killed the Uninstallation. I was sure by time that something wrong has happened and i did not switch off my monitor so that i can retain my application.I tried lot to increase teh /var so that i can update my yum and install some lost application but allin vain i tried Gparted which can only decrease the size .
I had 40 GB unallocated space so i tried to boot from Live Fedora 12 DVD and was able to see my all the files and filesystem.
All my data in /home was intact.I tried to go to grub and went to boot hte kernel and Initrd and was able to go to #root but again was not able to update the system as network was missing.The SYSTEM was Not booting and stuck in between.
Tried to change the /var to var1 copied /var content to /var1 and made changes in teh /etc/fstab still did not work ,so finally went to repair with Live cd but could not get "Linux rescue" anywhere not even to upgrade option so finally installed the New linux without touching / and /home partition rest were deleted and formatted for new instalation.Now i could not see my data in /home directory although i could see data in /root(old) and all ..i am now lost ..my data is nowhere ..please help me.I can only see /home(old) but it says empty and shows 6 GB unused and 3.3 GB used when seen in Gparted .
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Jan 6, 2010
I stupidly unplugget my USB-cable, which was connected to my Nokia music phone, just as if I were in Windows. What do I do? I've lost my music on the phone, or, it seems it may be there (the correct mass of data), but my phone now tells me there is no music... Can I recover this? And - what is the correct way to unplug a USB unit in Ubuntu? To make it work, and find the phone/drive - I just typed "sudo lsusb" in the terminal, and it found and opened the memory automatically... How should you unmount the USB, and maybe even how do I get my data back?
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Aug 28, 2010
I believe that the attacker somehow got in through the ssh daemon(OpenSSH 5.3p1) on June 12. From here, a user account named "crond" was created(can anyone confirm weather this is normal?) and according to the log, this account was accessed several times between Jun 12 and Jun 18 from the same ip address. Also on Jun 12, the MOTD on the ssh server was messed up and remained that way until it was reinstalled. The default ssh client(OpenSSH 5.3p1) was made completely non-functional.
I became alerted to the problem when my ISP advised me to run a virus scan on the machines on my network. Not knowing of any linux based anti-virus software, I decided to check for suspicious files on my hard drive. I found one, in the /tmp directory was a subdirectory called ".popscan". Inside was a script and a list of about 40 very default sounding usernames and passwords. There was also a file called "back.txt" in the root of my filesystem. Which is a pearl script that aparently spawns a shell.
At this point I disconnected the server from the internet and mirrored the drive. I found a suspicious home directory for "crond" I'm hesitating on setting up the server again for fear that it might just get rooted again. I would also like to find out how he got in so it can be prevented for other people aswell.
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Apr 12, 2016
I want to back up my data on my MacBook Air using time machine. I have a desktop with Debian gnome installed where I want to store my back up data. But I can't manage to find a hard drive to start time machine on.
I have four hard drives installed in my Debian computer and I also want to share them over my home network. I am very new to Debian ...
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Feb 15, 2011
I am trying to build a media server for my home and still in the process of evaluating my OS options (Ubuntu Server, Fedora Core, or Win Server). I am planning to use four 1TB drives initially for the RAID5 array. Once it fill up i will add more 1TB drives.
My question is can Fedora Core create a RAID5 array and grow latter without having to back up data to external hard drive and re-create the array? I am looking for something that is easy to use and manage. If Fedora Core doesnt have this option, can you recommend other distributions that can do this?
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Feb 15, 2011
I am trying to build a media server for my home and still in the process of evaluating my OS options (Ubuntu Server, Fedora Core, or Win Server). I am planning to use four 1TB drives initially for the RAID5 array. Once it fill up i will add more 1TB drives.
My question is can Fedora Core create a RAID5 array and grow latter without having to back up data to external hard drive and re-create the array? I am looking for something that is easy to use and manage. If Fedora Core doesnt have this option, can you recommend other distributions that can do this?
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Dec 8, 2010
A directory /test/test1 is created & under /test1 there are some files & subdirectories with data in it. I had copied the files (text & script files) with command as,
cp -irv /test/test1/.* /test as per the requirement but what i see in destinarion i.e, /test that no files or directory has been copied in /test & the files/directories is also removed from source i.e, /test/test1
so my query is how can i get the files/directories back with data?
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Apr 20, 2010
I want to know which backup tool is used in Linux to back up data from windows machine to linux machine, is amenda? Please guide me.
Also tell me where to download it from?
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Oct 25, 2010
I used a Kingston 8Gb flash drive as a live usb recently (copied the live iso image over using dd). I am done with the installations and all but seem to have a problem. i cannot format my flash drive. It now shows as a live CD (800 or so mb). Is there a way to fix the partition table back? I guess if i copy a partition table image from some other 8 gb drive that might fix the problem but i dont have any other flash drives. Is there a solution possible or am i stuck with a live usb forever
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Mar 6, 2010
I've initialize a virtual disk and deleted the partition table didn't notice that i've done that to the wrong one, data still on the physical hard disks but....how I'll get my data back safe without losing it?
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May 2, 2010
So I was messing around trying to uninstall Nibbles and reinstall since I have an issue starting that game and something happened and removed the submenu under Games called "Logic", which had another whole list of games.
Is it possible to reinstall the games package or reinstall the update?I'm thinking more of the lines of a system restore or something so back 2 days from today.
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Feb 4, 2011
how do I retrieve/reinstall Grub without having to reinstall Ubuntu?
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Apr 29, 2010
I recently installed opensuse 11.2 on my laptop which also had windows vista and windows 7, i created a new partition and the installation went smoothly, after i went to boot back into windows 7 i got a blue screen of death, strangely vista boots perfectly.I could just reinstall windows 7 but its a pain to reinstall all my programs and such
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Dec 6, 2010
i have ubuntu 10.04 64 bit installed and configured and working sweet. I have reinstalled windows 7 and now i can't boot ubuntu i've tried easybcd to add ubuntu to win boot loader which failed and tried to follow the instructions to reinstall grub through a live cd which i am in at the moment. i go to a terminal and type sudo grub and it brings up the grub prompt. i have mounted all discs and entered the command find /boot/grub/stage1 and it keeps spitting this back at me Error 15: File not found
my hd is a 80gb with partions like this
/dev/sda1 105mb ntfs system reserved
/dev/sda2 45gb ntfs win 7 home premium 64 bit
/dev/sda3 34gb ext4 ubuntu 10.04 64 bit
/dev/sda4 1.5gb linux swap
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May 7, 2010
10.04
I managed to delete the Volume Applet that appears by default on the task bar. I'm sure it used to be listed in 'Add to Panel' in other version of Ubuntu however I can't see it there in 10.04.
Can someone explain to me how I get it back?
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Sep 1, 2011
i have noticed that if vista is not the active partition, hybernate does not work. it just goes black and then back to the user icon screen to log back in. another "slight" problem was that i was not able to apply a service pack. after restoring vistas dominance i was able to install the pack. is there any other work arounds for hybernate? even though you might not be interested in cleaning up after microsoft.
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May 17, 2010
it was possible to back up time machine back ups from a mac in ubuntu.
I use a mac at work and use time machine to back up to an external hard drive which i take home each day. I wish to back up the time machine back ups off the external hard drive each day to my computer at home just to be safe is this possible?
I have managed to open the hard drive and have enabled view hidden files so i can see all the files but i am unable to copy them due to permission errors
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Jan 17, 2011
I've been using Excel from OpenOffice with moderate success for the last year. Now I've just tried to open a new spreadsheet and I'm suddenly getting a highly condensed view. The cells are about 1mm X 4mm. If I expand them by selecting and dragging, then try to copy data from another spreadsheet onto the new one, the data shrinks to the small scale -- unreadable.
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Jun 3, 2010
Ubuntu 9.10 64bit. Acer Laptop
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opened with openoffice. THIS DIRECTORY HAS BEEN UNMOUNTED TO PROTECT YOUR DATA.
From the graphical desktop, click on: "Access Your Private Data"
or
From the command line, run: $ ecryptfs-mount-private
So I tried a couple of ways...
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Jul 27, 2011
Right now I have a 320GB system drive and 3TB data drive. I want to add two more 3TB drives and do a software RAID5 3x3TB. Is that possible without losing the data that is already on the data drive?Just want to make sure before I bought the 2 two drives. Not looking for instructions on how to do it,but if you want to include some that would be great too Just making sure it will work.
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