Ubuntu :: Restoring Backup Dd If/of?
May 24, 2010
Several months back I backed up a windows hard drive using an ubuntu live cd and this commanddd if=/dev/hdx | gzip > /path/to/image.gzI now want to restore that image but so far have not been successfulI have tried to restore using this commandsudo dd if=/path/to/file.gz of=/dev/sdb1After some time has passed, the terminal reads23568129+1 records in23568129+1 records out12066882348 bytes (12 GB) copied, 1327.65 s, 9.1 MB/sIf I reboot to windows with the 2nd hard drive connected as a slave. I go to my computer to try and browse the files of the restored HD but when I double click the drive, windows saysthe disk is not formatted.I have also tried sudo dd if=/path/to/file.gz of=/dev/sdbAnd when I do this, the disk does not show up in places/my computer but it will show up in gparted and Disk Management
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Jan 23, 2010
the links are my stage of backing up my / and /home, both on different partitions.
short-sum up: with rsync, 2-weekly, manual on an external disk.
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all my test restores in vbox worked fine. i may use the backup as a second OS, so it works. but there i first deleted the old OS and than ran cp -a /media/backup_partition /media/restore_parititon.
yesterday i ran into trouble and had to restore my system.
mount /dev/sda1 /media/restore
mount /dev/sdb1 /media/backup
rsync -auv /media/backup/ /media/restore
that did work, but not so good. dpkg-errors, all non-repo-apps, like opera and some old thrash, were a mess. i had to reinstall them with dpkg to delete them. besides that the system is up and running, but it was a lot of work.
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Jan 21, 2010
im trying to clone my ubuntu system installed in a laptop in case the laptop crashes.
But, first of all: when i try to restore the system in a new PC, could be incompatibilities because the hardware of the broken laptop and the new laptop is different?
I dont mind if i have to buy another laptop with the same processor type (i386, etc), but, for example, the type of the RAM could be cause of problems?
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Jul 10, 2011
I'm doing an rsync backup to an external drive in order to take a shot at setting up partition encryption. My rsync command is, as root: Code: rsync -av / /external1/backup.Once I've finished my cryptsetup and done a fresh Linux install, what command should I use to properly restore my backup (without messing up the encryption setup)?
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Feb 3, 2010
I want to restore a HDD image I have to my laptop's HDD while booted off the Ubuntu Live CD.The laptop's HDD is unformatted and has no partitions.I expected this to work:$ sudo dd if=/path/to/backup.img of=/dev/sdaBut I'm tolddd: opening `/dev/sda': Permission denied.
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Oct 10, 2010
Before I reinstalled Ubuntu (this time allocating the entire disk to it as I never really used Windows any more) I backed up the entire contents of my /home folder using Deja Dup. Now that I am done reinstalling Ubuntu I am trying to restore the backup. However, when it actually begins restoring the backup, it says "Restore failed: failed with an unknown error".
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Jan 20, 2011
I did a backup of /photos /documents /downloads and /music with mintbackup creating backup on /dev/sdb1
I cannot get mintbackup to restore the file, and I was able finally to get /music file restored. Below is error from cli
Code:
BoredOOMM@ursa-major ~/temp $ sudo tar xzvf 2011-01-16-1424-backup.tar.gz
[sudo] password for BoredOOMM:
.mintbackup
Music/TheWhistler1947.zip
Music/SUSPENSE6.zip
Music/TheWhistler1946.zip
[Code]...
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Jul 7, 2011
I've been using 11.04 Unity, & quite like it. I fired up Blender 2.49b the other day (not used it for a long time) & its behaviour was very erratic. Due to this I decided to reinstall 10.10 for the time being, until October or maybe even the 12.04 LTS. I backed everything up & reinstalled 10.10. I then tried to restore my Evolution from the Natty backup file, which simply didn't work. The message was something about it not being a valid file. I'm assuming this is a non backwards compatibility issue.
Any way getting Blender to work or restoring Evolution? With regard to Blender (in Natty); I've not tried proprietary drivers for my GPU yet as the open source defaults have always been fine, so that's an option. It means another reinstall (of Natty), but that really isn't such a big deal at this point. With regard to Evolution (in Maverick); I found a ppa but I'm unsure how to proceed once I've added it. Would I do an apt-get update & an apt-get install evolution?
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May 18, 2010
using 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
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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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Jan 19, 2010
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:
Code:
-- 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
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Feb 2, 2011
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?
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Jun 30, 2010
does 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!
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Sep 1, 2011
I 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!
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Jun 12, 2010
I have been looking for a complete backup solution like "Acronis True Image Backup and Recovery" on Windows for Slackware a while.
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Jan 15, 2010
After 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:
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Nov 10, 2010
This 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
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Sep 15, 2009
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
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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 10, 2011
I want to make a backup from my Email and my Favorites from Mozilla.
But which folders I have to make a backup from.
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May 10, 2010
Does anyone know of any decent enterprise level backup solutions for Linux? I need to backup a few servers and a bunch of desktops onto one backup server. Using rsync/tar.gz won't cut it. I need like bi-monthly full HDD backups, and things such as that, with a nice GUI interface to add/remove systems from the backup list. I need basically something similar to CommVault or Veritas. Veritas I've used before but it has its issues, such as leaving 30GB cache files. CommVault, I have no idea how much it is, and if it supports backing up to a hard drive rather than tape.
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Jun 13, 2011
When I backup with Dejadup, does it backup only the folders or the OS as well?
In case of a real crash, can I bring back the system to its pre crash state including the OS, using Dejadup backed up files?
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Feb 4, 2011
I am now preparing myself to upgrade lenny to squeeze and decided to do a backup on my system. I used backup-manager to do the job and it worked fine. how do you restore said backup data?
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Sep 13, 2010
Can some one give me a sample of a crontab for backing a directory please, System is Ubuntu 9.04Quote:
#!/bin/bash
# this file is an automated backup script, backup.sh.
# this backs up my domain site.
[code]....
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Jul 19, 2010
I have use backup-manager tool very often but now found some problems and goes to it official site backup-manager.org for search answers.But this site didn't open already more than week!
url
url
url
At now DNS records don't have A record:
Code:
$host backup-manager.org
backup-manager.org mail is handled by 10 private.sukria.net.
backup-manager.org mail is handled by 15 private.nxr.fr.
backup-manager.org mail is handled by 5 mx.sukria.net.
backup-manager.org mail is handled by 10 jupiter.unix-scripts.info.
Does this project moved, renamed or died?
Maybe it change the domain address?
Or this is only temporary problems with hosting or domain?
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Jan 26, 2010
When I try to restore my 9.04 bookmarks to my 9.10 install it get a "Unable to process the backup file" error message. I changed my group to root but it didn't help. I just changed the permissions of the file and it still doesn't help.
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Sep 8, 2010
I would like to have [CTRL][ALT][BKSP], [CTRL][ALT][+] and [CTRL][ALT][-] activated but don't know how to do this in the new X11.
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May 24, 2011
had a lvm (non luks i suspect) home partition on my 11.04 install. I've since install opensue on the same laptop hoping that if i don't leave that partition alone during opensuse installation i would be able to mount and enter my key to access the data within...stupid me.... i formated my /boot and / partition, not my /home partition of 450gb. I'm now back on ubuntu 11.04 trying to get access to my data. i'v found the command "encryptfs-recover-private" but i only works on mounted partitons, i can't mount my encrypted partition because the system does not recongnize it. I've have to format it to mount it.
fdisk
(bold is my encrypted partition)
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 96256 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
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Aug 2, 2011
I have accedently erased wine1.2 without Knowingly that it should be there.how can I retrieve it so that i can run a windows program on my computer again?
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Jun 9, 2010
I have accidentally deleted my Documents folder by "shift+Delete"command & it had my important data.how can I restore it.[P]I am running Ubuntu 10.04[/P]
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