Due to hardware failure I have had to set up a server several times. Each time it takes more than a day to set it up from scratch and import the databases etc. I would like a solution that separates all the data, including the configuration files, from the binaries and stores the data on a portable medium that can be quickly used to setup a new server.
Here are the details. I don't use Apache Friends' xampp, instead I set up apache2, php, mysql according to the instructions in [URL].. So the php, css, html etc files are in /var/www, the apache config files are in /etc/apache2 and the mysql data is in /var/lib/mysql. What is the simplest way of making the data and configuration files portable so that I can quickly set up the same server on a new machine that I have first installed Ubuntu on?
Can I put the above mentioned partitions and directories on a usb drive? Should I always make regular dumps of the mysql data and use the dump files instead? Should I keep the whole lot on the local hard drive and find a way using rsync, unison etc to mirror the files onto another potential backup machine on a regular basis - this is not a trivial operation if all the file permissions and ownerships are to be preserved.
I have OpenVPN setup and running on my home server (Lucid Lynx). I move around alot and use Portable OpenVPN to connect to my home server. The problem is a lot of the computers I use I do not have admin rights to install the necessary routes to connect. So my question is this. Can OpenVPN be configured to use PPTP protocol? Because I have PortableVPN on my U3 flash drive and that VPN client does not need admin rights to run. If OpenVPN cannot do this, and from my understanding of its archetecture it cannot, but I must admit i am no authority on the matter. Can you suggest a workable solution, ie. install and setup this server software and use this portable client software.
I'm looking to setup X11 forwarding on my machine and secure it either with a vpn or ssh. A portable x11 client is need for access on the go. I am not sure if I am over complicating the issue but security is a must and some app I can run in windows on a thumb drive is a must.
I removed my old 160Gb laptop drive to install a new 320Gb drive. The 160Gb drive is partitioned as follows: 20Gb unallocated partition, 115Gb ext3 partition (running ubuntu 10.04), and 5Gb swap.
I placed this drive in a portable enclosure so that I could retrieve data from it. The Disk Utility in Ubuntu recognizes the drive but the partitions are not recognized, shows unknown and the only option available is to format the volume. If I place the drive back into my laptop, the drive boots normally and data is accessible.
I have connected other portable USB drives and they work (NTFS formatted), so USB ports are not the problem.
My portable HDD is suddenly saying that I don't have write permission anymore.
properties>permissions says that I have full read/write permission over the top folder of the drive. After looking in the permissions I'm out of ideas.
I checked the properties of the drive itself and it said "Permissions could not be determined"
I haven't changed the permissions deliberately - I use this hard drive every other day to move movies across to my TV.
can I can use the Ubuntu USB-installer as a portable operating system (through the "try it" feature) by selecting "persistence" when I follow the instructions to load Ubuntu onto a bootable external hard drive
I did originally have Ubuntu 10.04, in which gave me the same problem. I have upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10.I have been using the portable Adobe Photoshop CS5 application for a while now however it has kind of broken on me now. Everytime I tun the application now, it gives me a runtime error.
"Runtime Error! Program C:Pro. R6034
An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly. contact the application's support team for more info" I have tried re-installing several times now. Even downloading a different version. I am also running it through wine through the following command.. "wine "C:Program FilesPhotoshopPortablePhotoshopCS5Portable.exe"
I haven't heard of anyone doing this and I am wondering why not. I have an equipment closet. Where I have a home server, network gear, directv box, dvd player, stereo system(yet to come). I have only heard of people putting fans in such closets and wondering why not a portable air conditioner? I am thinking I want a
SOLEUS AIR PE6-10R-03 Portable Air Conditioner from new egg for about $315
It claims 45db 256 CFM and 2 pints/hour dehumidifer. That sounds perfect to me for a media closet but am wondering why I don't see others using a portable air conditioner for a media closet? They had a cheaper unit but it doesn't claim to have a fan which I think circulation is a must for a media closet. There is even a drain that is on the other side of the wall that I can run the drain pipe to. All I need to do is run a exhaust duct through the attic and to an exhaust that I can put in my roof overhang.
I have spent the summer and just got my few must-have Windows programs over to Ubuntu 11.04 (64-bit), got it customized with Docky (under Ubuntu Classic) and everything is SWEET. (But don't get me going on Unity dock). One problem: if I boot with my 1TB portable hard drive plugged in Ubuntu will recognize it. If I plug a portable drive in after the boot, I get this error below. I tried Mounting manually and with Archive Mount
Does "Portable Ubuntu" run separate from Windows? Point being, would I be vulnerable to Windows based trojans if I ran Firefox from Portable Ubuntu on Windows?
I got a CentOS 5.3 fileserver machine (no monitor/kb/mouse). I'd like to "pair" it with a specific USB drive, so that when this USB drive is connected and mounted it would start a backup - just a simple cp /source /target will do for now - it's the "autorun on mounted a specific USB drive" part I can't really solve. Is there an elegant way to do this some sort of autorun? My only really rough idea to do it is to check if the USB drive is available with a script run in crontab every minute :-
Well, I want to be able to run some Linux in a VM at my school (on WinXP systems), via a USB stick.Two problems:
- Computers are mediocre - Will be on many of them
I tried portable virtualbox but it starts very slow and runs slow without the guest additions. It just doesn't work right.What I need is a quick, portable VM that starts up quick and runs decently; I'm not expecting all that much from a USB stick but at least smooth cursor movement.I would like one that allows me to save changes on the virtual HDD, as opposed to a LiveCD style VM.
I'm using Zabbix on which I can use give bash command to the agent.This 1-liner will give me all the interfaces with their IPv4 addresses.I have a 2nd expression which returns a checksum so I can detect a difference whenever someone deletes/adds/changes an ipv4 interface.This is the output on my Ubuntu-server:
i was reformatting the hard drive of a laptop & in doing so i accedently deleted the partition of the portable hard drive & now the hard drive dosent show up is there a way to fix this & get the data back
I have a 60 GB Hitachi hard drive and a Rosewill drive enclosure. The drive originally ran Ubuntu on my laptop. I reformated a couple of times with a different formats and it works in Ubuntu. However, Win XP and Windows 7 reads and loads the enclosure but the drive never mounts nor is it visible in explorer.
I had PS CS5 portable running with Wine and everything was fine. However, from a couple of days ago I click on the icon to open the application and it keep loading. I had attached a screen-shoot with more details. I am running Ubuntu 10.10 and Wine (wine-1.3.7).
If I have Ubuntu installed on a USB drive and run it on a PC (not installing to the PC...just running the Live version), is anything at all written to the host PC's hard drive? I don't want the host PC's hard drive to be written to at all for security purposes. I'd be using Firefox, LibreOffice, and other apps that come with the Live USB version.
After plugging in my mp3 player to usb it isn't detected, even though it powers up and charges. I do an fdisk -l and nothing. My lspci shows the controller and my mouse is detected. lsusb shows the Phillips gogear as the device and it is device 2. I did dmesg and at the end it showed
scsi 6:0:0:0: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
I don't know if this is the issue or not but it's the only error I get, so I assume it's the problem.
After reading some download documentations, I'm still confused on how to install Ubuntu Linux onto a USB Flash Drive so that it is portable and not connected to a single computer.
I have a 650Gb HDD usb drive that I wish to use with ubuntu 10.04LTS aswell as on a WINXP system. HDD is clean. My ubuntu system has a /home partition formatted to EXT3, but as I use IFDRIVE to read this partition from windows, it needs to be set to have inode of 128 eg (mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1 -i 128)
my way of thinking is I need to partition the drive, format the drive to EXT3 making sure that is set inode to 128 How do is the best way to do this?
Then I need to get ubuntu to talk to this drive when I plug it in How do I do this?
I need a portable emacs to use for troubleshooting GNU/linux machines. A USB stick is the preferred medium as some of the computers I will work with may not have an optical drive.
Will I need separate versions for 32- and 64-bit systems?
I have kdenlive installed and find it really good. But i am confused as to what format i should render my video in. I want it to play well on any MS windows machine.
I've created a wonderful (until this issue) portable copy of Ubuntu linux that will boot on mostly anything by using a USB enclosure for my laptop's 80GB SATA drive. So far so good, it boots and runs on everything, and on non-nVidia card setups was even detecting the drivers, or letting me install the required drivers for hardware acceleration and compiz. Because you know, the wobble windows are the most awesome thing ever.
Anyway, my desktop machine had an nVidia card, so I'm thinking, sure, I'll just install the nVidia drivers like before and everything will work happily. Not so-- now the desktop and any other nVidia cards work great, but it seems to have completely disabled any other graphics cards. When the kernel module detects that an nVidia card isn't present, it shoots up this nasty little dialog box giving me the option to boot into "low graphics" mode, which doesn't even allow me to use the correct screen resolution, much less see the installed graphics card and try to configure a driver for it.
Is there any way to configure Ubuntu (with the dreaded nVidia kernel module) so that it can use nVidia's drivers when an nVidia card is present, and default to the normal (not low-graphics) setup in other cases, so that it has a fair chance of using what's actually present? I'm not afraid to much with config files, I just don't know the underlying system well enough to feel comfortable diving in without a push in the right direction.
My portable hard drive (WD My Passport), which used to work correctly now does not automount on my Ubuntu system. It does work on a Windows machine or even when plugged into WD HD TV, which is a Linux based device. There's one NTFS partition spanning the whole drive.When I plug the disk in, I see the following in dmesg:[269259.504631] usb 1-2.2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 20[269259.604674] usb 1-2.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choiceHowever it does not mount in GNOME and I don't see it when I type:sudo fdisk -lAny suggestions why this might be? I repaired the partition using chkdsk on Windows, so the issue is probably not filesystem related.
Im looking for an alternative to the iPad (havent got one and am not interested in getting one).
Is there a preferably Linux-powered mini comp/tablet out there that would be a good portable movie player? Nothing too small though, it should be about the same screen size as the iPad...
I've been using Firefox Portable for ages, mainly between my work (Windows XP) and home (Ubuntu) machine. Recently, just on Ubuntu (10.04), Firefox Portable has started freezing on pages containing Flash. Anyone else experiencing this? I've done a clean re-install of Firefox Portable, then just added Flash, and it still freezes.
I have installed Kubuntu onto a 1tb portable hard drive and I always have to boot from it and grub. I want to uninstallit and go back to windows 7 that is on my built in hard drive on my hp laptop.
I was wondering if any free, small, portable, cross platform programme exists for encrypting/decrpyitng simple txt files?
I know a couple of small ones for windows systems (nosee, dscrypt) but i wonder if there is any i could use on both linux and windows OS. the idea is to be able to carry it on USB key and the programme (or probably there will have to be 2 versions of it) would run either on windows or linux os and i could decrypt and encrypt the file if i needed to. no matter on what system i plug the USB key to.
