Ubuntu :: Find A Way To Backup Files To Cdr/dvdr?
Jan 17, 2010
I'm trying to find a way to backup my files to cdr/dvdr. I'd like to put a blank disk in when I finish using the machine, have it backup anything new, up to the size of the media and stop. I can put in new media the next day and I'd like it to continue from where it left off. It would be best if the backups are readable by any machine and I could extract specific files if a problem should arise. Any suggestions? Tar won't let me specify a final archive size and wants to do all the volumes in the backup at the same time.
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Nov 20, 2010
With the problems I seem to be having I was wondering about data integrity of an optical disc vs a USB drive.How about transfer speed? I assume you can format a usb drive as ext4. I am beginning to wonder why I put 2 new dvdr/rws in my new computer.Is an external hard drive the best solution for backing up files?
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May 10, 2011
I 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?
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May 21, 2011
I'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/
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Aug 31, 2010
I rsync the filesystem where I have my server to another HD. Now, when I try to boot I'm dropped at initramfs with an error. It looks like it's still looking for the root in the previous HD even tough I already changed /etc/fstab. It says it can't find the device with a certain UUID, and that UUID is from the previous HD.
Here's the full details: I'm running Ubuntu server 10.04 It has 2 hard drives. Every night it backups one to another with the command
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rsync --archive --one-file-system --hard-links --numeric-ids --delete
I moved the HD where I have the backup to another machine and rsynced them with the same command I then changed /etc/fstab in the new machine. I also installed Grub on it When I boot in the new machine I get a error about not finding root. It says that a device is not present. It says the UUID of the device is looking for, and it's the UUID of the first HD.
I thought I only had to change /et/fstab but seems I am wrong.
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Jan 20, 2011
I am using Cron for nightly backups to a usb device. I was just wondering in my script for the backup, how do I find the location of my usb device.
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May 25, 2011
I will eventually script this but wanted to know where I screwed up when trying to get this oneliner to work. In a nutshell, I want to created a backup directory, find any files that have changed in the last 48hrs and them copy them to the newly made backup directory.
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date=$(date +%m%d%Y)mkdir -p /home/test_dir/backup$date;find . -mtime 1|xargs -0 cp -r -t /home/test_dir/backup$date
When I do this I get:
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a bunch of junk !#$#$$#! File name too long
I also tried:
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date=$(date +%m%d%Y)mkdir -p /home/test_dir/backup$date;find
. -mtime 1|xargs -0 cp -r {} /home/test_dir/backup$date
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Aug 7, 2010
I am working in ubuntu 9.x (linux karmic kernal) .I have restored the content from CD to hard disk. In the mid way of this process, it was failed. I would like to know this below thiongs,
1) which position it got failed ?
2)Any offset option is there in linux to point the particular CD position ?
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Sep 11, 2009
I am trying to do a find/grep/wc command to find matching files, print the filename and then the word count of a specific pattern per file. Here is my best (non-working) attempt so far:
wc `find . ( -name "*.as" -o -name "*.mxml" ) -exec grep -H HeightResizableList {}` ;
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Jul 15, 2011
Is there a way to specify to find that I only want text files (and not binary files)? Grep has an option to exclude binary files, so I thought find probably has a similar feature, but I've been unable to find it.
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Aug 9, 2011
The find command does not seem to find all files in my directory hierarchy. My home directory is automounted from a server. The command to illustrate this is:find | sed -e 's/^.///' | sed -e 's//.*//' | sort -uThe result misses several directories. Likewise, a find of a particular file, like:find . -iname *sample* -printwhere sample_file.txt resides in one of the directories that is missing in the first find command, finds nothing
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Jan 25, 2009
I know how to search for normal files but can you let me know " How to search for 5 setuid files on the system. Also explain, for each file, why setuid mechanism is necessary for the command to function properly"
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Dec 20, 2010
i installed ubuntu 10.10 and i need to make backup for files in my network (small company) who use windows system.there is any solution or any open sofwatre on ubtunu .and i like to to choose the type of file to backup
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May 31, 2010
well, i know ther are issues when using rsync to copy files to ntfs partition like file permission blah blah. the thing is, i need to backup my music files periodically onto a ntfs partition from ext4. i really dont care about file permissions or any other stuff. when i use rsync, it should update the mp3 files on my ntfs (external) disc with the new ones.can i give a go with this operation? i have lot more important files on the external disc and i dont want this rsync corrupt or delete those files coz they are highly important files.
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Aug 20, 2010
I am pretty new to using Ubuntu and want to find a way that I can backup files remotely to my Ubuntu box. My Ubuntu box is running at work and I want to backup files from home automatically every night.Also which solution encrypts the data en route? For example a server with multiple clients with different directory paths.
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Nov 18, 2010
I am a beginner to Ubuntu / linux. I plan to partition my laptop (HP pavilion) for Windows 7 and Linux (Ubuntu). Can I backup both Linux and Windows 7 files to a single external USB hard drive? (Obviously, they will be in separate directories). If yes, how do I do that? If not, what are my alternatives?
I assume Ubuntu will recognize a USB hard drive as an external flash drive, right? I also notice external SATA hard drive docking stations with USB interface are available, and I have not use them before. The devices takes internal SATA hard drive. If you have use them before, let me know how did you format it using Ubuntu or Windows7 while the drive is attached to the station.
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Jun 15, 2011
I had some problems with my hdd, I fixed most of the problems with "testdrive" or "testdisk" (cant remember) but I have some bad sections on my disk right where my important data is. I made a backup with "dd" from a live cd. I have the backup with a reading error or 5 so I guess most data is safe? I have the backup of the whole drive on an other hdd and now I need to get just a few folders out of it. I tried in windows but I can't read it. Poweriso can but not the privet folders like /var/ and that folder I need. I had a password on the account so I guess that is part of the problem? How to read the backup file in windows?
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Jan 22, 2010
I'm writing a small script to automate the backup: Problem: within the folder structure there're files and folders with Cyrillic characters: Example (this is not for bucking up the mp3s; it's only an example):
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Jul 5, 2011
We 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.
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Jan 4, 2010
I'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
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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.
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Jan 10, 2010
I've been working at this for the past 2 days now. My computer got some kind of virus or something that has caused it to loop at startup and continually reset. I run an XP OS on a Gateway. I desperately need to backup my files, because the person who had my backup absently deleted my stuff. I was able to boot up using an Ubuntu disc and I'm in it right now, I've found my files, I have an external hard drive. The problem:First, it wont let me paste into the hard drive. If I drag, it says "Error while copying to "/media/FreeAgent Drive". You do not have permissions to write to this folder." I've mounted the external drive, nothing changes.
I've gone in to properties, is says under permissions that the owner is root, folder access is "Access files" and at the bottom is says "You are not the owner, so you can't change these permissions." The drop downs where I need to change permissions is in gray, so I can;t change it.So next, I tried "gksu nautilus", went to the drive through there, and it let me use the drop down selection under permissions. I tried to change the folder access and I got this message: "The permissions could not be changed. Couldn't change the permissions of "FreeAgent Drive" because it is on a read-only disk." So I tried changing the file access to Read and Write. It didn't give an error, so I thought perhaps it finally worked. I hit apply, and tried to put my files in. Once again I got the message from before that said I didn't have permission. I tried to change the owner so it was no longer root and I got "The owner could not be changed. Couldn't change the owner of "FreeAgent Drive" because it is on a read-only disk."I'm getting so frustrated right now. These files are VERY important to me! The hard drive I have is a Seagate FreeAgent desk 500GB
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Apr 17, 2010
Having trouble running backup software to network storage. (Ubuntu 10.04 Beta)
I mounted my network drive (a Netgear Stora) with curlftps (tried several other ways, but this is the only way that works). It shows up like a regular HDD which I can copy files to in the file manager, but when I try running backup software only the folders are copied.
I've tried several backup programs, some based on Rsync, as well as Rsync itself, but they all had problems. Dj Dup kind of worked and was able to copy files (archives), but kept dropping the ethernet connection instead.
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May 14, 2010
I clone my entire notebook hdd once a month to a USB drive with an identical disk once a month using dd. I would like to find a way to automatically or manually do incremental backups at shorter intervals.
The first problem is that my incremental backup drive is not the same as my full backup drive (which is my clone). Is there some way to backup or copy all files on a document partition modified after a certain date?
The second problem is that my document partition is NTFS-3G. I guess this could be done pretty easily using "dump" if I stored my docs on ext. [I don't because I want to make sure that my docs are accessible from any machine (say in an Internet cafe) should my MacBook die and I need to rip out the hard drive and run to do my homework on another system; that is why I keep my docs on my Vista partition].
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Aug 8, 2010
Does ubuntu server automatically backup files? How can i get to them?
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Oct 20, 2010
i find myself in a situation very similar to here. [URL].. when i try use boot a live disk off my flash drive, it gives me the same issue. right now, i was just wondering how i would be able to get all my files off of my hard drive and onto an external drive so i may just format and reinstall everything on my computer.
any tips on how to do a simple copy over through the busybox or intramfs?
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Mar 21, 2009
I'm going to be launching my website soon, and I found a company to host it on one of their dedicated servers. I think I'm going to go with fedora as to OS, and well my problem is I'm having trouble finding a company to backup up my files, that both supports fedora and well is reasonably priced.
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Mar 12, 2011
I have a situation where a directory has about 1.5 million files in it. On an hourly basis, I want to be able to find any files that have changed in the last hour, compress them, encrypt them and then copy them to both a local backup machine and an off site backup.
Is there any kind of utility or kernel module that creates some type of log of modified files? I know I can use find, but the search for -mtime in this directory takes quite a while and will not suffice for an hourly backup.
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May 18, 2011
if there an application which does the following:
1. I have a laptop with an internal 200GB HD.
2. I run the application & it creates a list of all files (size & time-stamp) without actually storing them. Let's call this the "snapshot list".
3. I update some of the files on the laptop.
4. Now I run the application & it only copies the files which have changed on the laptop, that have different size/time-stamp from the snapshot list, onto some external media, such as a memory card. Of course, the files should be copied onto their proper location in the directory tree & not just pile up in one place.
Why is this useful? although the laptop has a 200GB HD I typically only update a small number of files, whose total size is maybe 10MB or so. If I could only backup those which have changed, I could do this with a tiny SD card instead of lugging around an external usb HD.
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Mar 11, 2011
I have a clonezilla backup,.. and I'd like to grab some files from it without restoring the whole thing.
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Apr 25, 2010
how 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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