Questions tagged [backup]
Making copies of data so that the copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event, or for historical retention.
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How can I prevent Backblaze from frequently (every few days) reuploading my entire external hard drives?
It seems that Backblaze is frequently (every few days) reuploading my entire external hard drives. Backblaze already has the files on its server, so it's only scanning my entire external hard drives, ...
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Robocopy - Suppress output of dashed lines
I use a batch file to call Robocopy to backup files from my Documents drive to my external hard drive. I use RoboForm's logging functions to also output the results of each folder backup to a text ...
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Data Recovery from Veracrypt-Encrypted External Drive After Power Fluctuation
I find myself in a bit of a predicament and am reaching out for guidance on recovering data from a specific partition on a 1TB external hard drive, where all partitions are encrypted with Veracrypt. ...
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Best way to compress a directory tree containing archives and files selectively extracted from them? [closed]
I have a file structure that looks something like this:
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└── base/
├── archives/
│ ├── foo.zip
│ ├── bar.rar
│ └── baz.7z
├── unzipped-1/
│ └── complex subdir tree/
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Should A Smaller Partition Be Placed First or Last?
I'm wanting to partition my new external HDD based on whether the data is backed up or if it's not backed up (the data they contain are different than he backup). I figure I'll make the backup smaller,...
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Merging old backup in current database mysql [migrated]
I have a backup database that contains data up to the specific date 27-11-2023. Currently, I have the latest version of the database with updated records. However, the issue arises when I consider ...
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Is it safe to use a macrium disk image to transfer all my data between identical laptops?
I recently bought a new laptop and after using it for a while I have noticed a fault. I have made a warranty claim and will be receiving an identical model in a few days.
My original laptop obviously ...
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"Backup your file encryption key" message even if no files are encrypted
Since a few days, I get this message at boot:
I probably opened files, from a ZIP, appearing in "green" (encrypted?) in the explorer, but I deleted them. Doing cipher /u /n /h shows that no ...
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Robocopy extremely low performance copying from Synlogy SMB
I want to occasionally backup a media library which is located on my NAS to another drive (6TB WD RED HDD; produced in 2019). The drive is located in my main PC and connected through SATA.
The NAS and ...
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Why am I unable to sudo past permissions on the “~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync” directory in macOS?
If I run this I get Operation not permitted:
ls -al ~/Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync
This is off limit to safeguard the backup, but it is owned by me, hence I should be able to run this to ...
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Backup strategy: from ext4 to btrfs. Is it any good?
I have all my data stored on an ext4 filesystem. I want to make regular backups to a btrfs drive and use its snapshot capabilities.
In the btrfs drive I will make two directories: \backup and \...
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rsync delete-excluded without implied delete
I'd like to use rsync to back up my home directory to another drive, but I have some directories I want to exclude. I have a past backup that contains those directories but I want them gone from the ...
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Backing up multiple computers with Macrium Reflect - nested image files
I'm planning to back up 12 old computers and HDDs from my parent's collection. These are yet to fail despite their age. My method involves imaging the drives and partitions with default compression ...
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How to restore a backup from an bitlocker encrypted disk
I use the native Windows 11 backup app to make a full backup of my machine onto an external disk which is bitlocker secured.
The backup tool i use is called "Backup and Restore (Windows 7)" (...
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Are my passkeys on my system disk or in the TPM?
Will a system disk-image type backup include my Passkeys created by Windows Hello on Windows 11 23H2?
I'm not yet clear whether they are saved on disk or in the Trusted Platform Module (TPM).
If I ...
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Manage Windows System Image Backups on a disk
I have an external hard disk, and i use a partition on this disk for Windows 10 System Image Backups. In theory, if disaster strikes, i have a complete image of my SSD which i can restore my system ...
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How to back up Documents with OneDrive, while also using another cloud service?
I use OneDrive for Business on Windows 11 and I want to back up the Documents folder on my harddrive to OneDrive.
In the OneDrive settings I go to "Sync and backup > Manage backup". Here, ...
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2-of-3 USB Data Backup
I have 3 usb sticks and have data that needs to be backed up securely.
The 3 USB-Sticks will all be stored in different places and I want NO files to be recoverable from just one stick - I want it to ...
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How to Implement Retention Policies with rdiff-backup?
I'm currently using rdiff-backup on a Debian system to perform daily backups via a cron job like so:
rdiff-backup /var/www/html/ /backup/rdiff/html/
However, this approach is generating a large ...
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Security implications between doing gpg --export vs copying ~/.gnupg entirely
I'm trying to transfer over my private gpg keys, and I'm running into some weird advice. On one hand, I'm being told to do gpg --export and gpg --export-secret-keys, and on another, I was recommended ...
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Back up Thunderbird Calendars automatically
I want to back up my Thunderbird calendars somehow, but I'm not sure how without manually going to "Events and Tasks", "Export" and then choosing each calendar one at a time. I ...
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is it ok to gitlab-backup restore after ssh broken pipe?
I am trying to migrate gitlab-ce. Since my backup file is almost up to 200G it takes very long time to restore.
I executed gitlab-backup restore and after some hours got ssh:broken pipe.
As far as I ...
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Need Help To Copy "AppData" Folder Onto External Storage
I've asked around a number of forums to learn about the least-troublesome, most-straightforward means of backing up the "AppData" folder from an external laptop disk drive onto an external ...
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Need to sync backup Thunderbird IMAP folder to IMAP server
OS: Ubuntu 20.04
Thunderbird: 115.3.1(64 bit)
I reported a bug in the new updated version of Thunderbird. One of the troubleshooting steps was to install and test the latest beta version (119), which ...
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How to rename btrfs subvolumes on Fedora 38?
I tried to install timeshift, but it cannot find my subvolumes, because they are not named with '@':
sudo btrfs sub list /
ID 256 gen 18303 top level 5 path root
ID 257 gen 18303 top level 5 path home
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Tool to facilitate using hard links for versioning a large directory
I have a relatively large data directory. It gets updated occasionally, but usually only a small percentage of the tree changes. I'm currently updating it by using cp -Rl previous_version/ new_version/...
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Btrfs local Snapshots vs Incremental remote Backup
In a NAS context, I'm wondering about the pros of btrfs local snapshots when incremental remote backup is made on a remote server.
I'm also wondering about the interest to have both snapshots and ...
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Anyone recognise this app (and how to identify)?
Started up my W10 PC and noticed a new icon on my Start Menu, under "Recently added". The thing is, I don't recognise or remember adding anything recently. It's a sort of turquoise cloud ...
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Verify data integrity of tar outputting through ssh
I am creating a backup script which uses tar, encrypts it with gpg and then sends the output through ssh to an offsite host. I am now wondering weather and how I can verify that all of the data is ...
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How to download a website for offline use while preserving a search feature?
There's a website I'd like to download since it's had some problems lately. I tried the usual way with HTTrack and that worked for clickable links, but the search box on the site still refers to the ...
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Swapping boot and backup disks during WinPE's image restore procedure
I have 4Gb of DDR in a laptop running Windows 7. I want to do a full Windows system image restore from a 2nd hard-drive that I use in the CD/DVD cartridge slot with a "drive caddy" adapter. ...
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Is rsync idempotent?
To my understanding one advantage of rsync over cp is that it doesn't actually transfer any data if it's already there.
I'm currently trying to restore a backup to my raspi's micro SD (after apt ...
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Driveimage xml hard drive copy after back up?
I started by trying to restore my system from a system image but later found out that didn’t include a copy of the actual operating system so that wasn’t helpful.
Edited to add: I also tried to just ...
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Fast and reliable network transfer on Linux
I have had to do a significant number of filesystem backups and other large file transfers between Linux machines over the internet lately, and the overall experience with the default tools has been ...
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How do I clone a game CD- or DVD-rom that gives IO-errors whenever I try to clone it, but I can access the files just fine?
EDIT: I managed to do it with Gnome Disk Utils, as it just replaces unreadable bytes with 0s
I am trying to make a backup of all my old CD- and DVD-rom games so that I can access them from anywhere ...
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Is it possible to make a RAID of multiple WD elements external drives
I have about 10 2tb WD Elements 2.5 WD green external hard drives (WD20NMVW). I want to know if I could make something useful out of them.
The best would be to be able to use them for a data archive ...
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Is it possible to reformat macOS APFS external hard drive to remove case sensitive option WITHOUT losing existing data?
Disk Utility is telling me that I formatted an external USB drive as APFS encrypted case sensitive (I actually don't remember electing the case sensitive option but I'm not going to argue :)
I use ...
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Best way to use Windows' RAID 1 to have an hot backup
I'm looking for a way to direct Win10 Pro RAID system to direct the reads to the fast drive in the mirror
I'm on Windows 10 PRO and have regular (but not too frequent) backups of my system.
The system ...
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Prevent Windows 10 Restart, Shutdown or Hibernate while backup process active
Is there any way I can prevent all Windows users from accidentally shutting down a Windows 10 Pro machine by going to Win-Start Menu -> e.g. Restart, Shutdown or Hibernate and clicking on it while ...
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How to mount large disk image on small hardware to recover files
I have a raw disk backup of a 4TB external drive /dev/sda split into 1GiB chunks, within is a single used partition /dev/sda1 and some other junk. The chunks are being stored on multiple physical ...
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Opening a fireproof/waterproof HDD enclosure
Quite a few years ago I procured the following fireproof/waterproof drive (SentrySafe Fire-Safe Waterproof 250 GB Hard Drive #QA0005):
It worked reasonably well (no complaints), although at 250GB the ...
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better hdd or ssd for long term storage [duplicate]
regarding resistance to data corruption over the years which of the two technologies is currently more reliable? so I'm not interested in reliability in daily use but the ability to maintain data ...
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Backup Window 10 to a folder of external drive
I have a C drive (SSD 1 TB) Installed with Windows 10 and an external D drive (HDD 8TB). I want to manually back up my whole C drive to a folder of D (The folder name might simply be the timestamp ...
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Why does system image backup of C drive fail in Windows 10 Pro?
I regularly take backup of my computer by creating system image of the C drive. I do so by going to Control Panel\System and Security\Backup and Restore and clicking the "Create a system image&...
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How can I use my PC as a central location for sharing data?
All members in my family regularly take photos from their smartphones which we have to then share with others every now and then.
Our Google Photos storage is entirely full. We don't want to regularly ...
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How to properly set sudo crontab to backup files with superuser rights nightly?
I'm writing a script to backup some dirs such as /etc in a nightly backup.
The script works if I run it manually and input a password, but fails to launch in crontab
For testing purpose I've made a ...
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Automated creation and pool deployment of Windows 11 images
We are managing a pool of Windows 11 machines that essentially run as autonomously bookable servers used to analyze microscopy images. The computers are accessible physically or through Windows RDP (...
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How can I completely re-install the Volume Shadow Copy Service?
I have a problem which occured out of nowhere a few months ago and which I could not yet resolve:
I cannot create Backups of my Windows 10 PC because the service "Volume Shadow Copy" throws ...
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License behavior if I upgrade from win 10 to win 11 and then back again to 10 [duplicate]
I've a PC at work that has windows 10 Professional, and we're thinking about upgrading to Windows 11 Professional.
We use Aomei Backup for making periodic images of our disks.
I'd like to try Windows ...
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Failing HDDs - detection, backup strategies and reuse
I have a 2TB Seagate HDD that I believe has reached the end of its life in my primary Windows 11 box. It is the data drive - it contains things like video games, source code (backed by a remote repo), ...
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