Questions tagged [restore]
Restore refers to making something the way that it once was. Common examples are restoring a backup, restoring preferences, restoring documents, and restoring tabs in a browser.
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rsync save and restore user-id/group-id
I'm trying to understand how to save and restore user/group while performing a backup using rsync.
It might be that I got it all wrong, but I was running the following command:
rsync -axqHAXWESR --...
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Is it possible to restore a backup image taken from an old Linux server to much newer hardware?
Most of the Linux production servers at work have been in use for many years and their hardware is out of date.
For example, we have some production servers running CentOS 8 or 9. While the OS has ...
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TimeMachine restore: Can select backup, but get "No macOS system backups were found"
The SSD on my 2015 MacBook Pro died, and I got it replaced with a used SSD from another MacBook containing Catalina. The machine boots now normally, ready to restore from backup.
I tried to restore ...
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Can a W11 System Backup Image be restored to a laptop running W10?
Laptop purchased with W11 and created W11 updated backup image to internal and external drives. Downgraded from W11 to W10 and created W10 updated backup image to internal and external drives.So I ...
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Enable System Protection (Restore) via .bat or .ps1 in Windows 11
I'm trying to automate a script that runs to enable system restore upon startup (yes, every time my PC boots).
I found this PowerShell script that seems to work when entered directly into a PowerShell ...
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Backup & Restore Winsock?
In the process of doing some troubleshooting and running the netsh winsock reset command, and was wondering if anyone is aware of a way (or app) to backup the current winsock catalog (and/or ...
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Does anyone have a way of Exporting File 'Creation Date' and 'Modified Date' in order to restore this data onto files from a backup
I am able to get the data I want using PowerShell:
gci -path .\ -recurse | sort name | select name, LastWriteTime, creationtime
The issue here is, I have an online backup solution. When you restore ...
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How to recover/restore lost session in chrome?
So I signed out of one of my google accounts which had all my tabs and it immediately closed my session and replaced it with the session from my other account. Now the tabs from my original account ...
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Easeus - Restoring bootable drive issue
I 'm trying to restore my bootable Windows 11 drive which is already backed up to an external hard drive as pbd file format with the EaseUS backup software, and unfortunately, I cannot. While using ...
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How can I backup my Drivers and Use them in Afresh install windows 11? thank you [duplicate]
How can I back up my Drivers and Use them in a fresh to Windows 11 installation?
Is there an easy way to do this?
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OpenVPN on OPNsense fails to start after restore
After restoring my OPNsense system, the OpenVPN server fails to start.
Here’s how I restored the system:
Restored an image I had taken from the fully configured system (minus later configuration ...
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WindowsImageBackup is not recognized but VHD can be mounted, how could it be restored anyway
The Laptop-Drive of a friend, a Sandisk 1TB drive from 2019 is broken (Smart Failure).
There is a WindowsImageBackup on an external drive from 4th of May 2020.
I am not sure which windows Version this ...
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how to restore the windows clipboard after deleting it
I found a rare link on Google on how to remove the WIN+V Windows Clipboard, but now I cannot find that same link that also had instructions on how to restore it back.
At the time of removal, I ...
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Black screen of death after trying a previous restore. I can only open bios. WRE-no load
I have tried for 3 days of all and every possible way to fix.
I am getting the black screen of death after trying a previous restore. I can only open bios. WRE-not loading.
Tried USB boot, nothing.
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Is there a way to restore chrome tabs (and windows) to different desktops using the same chrome instance?
I'm looking for a way to restore chrome windows from the same chrome instance (e.g. using the same user-data-dir) to different windows desktops.
Using chrome with one profile and one user-data-dir i ...
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Saving and Restoring File TimeStamps (Created, Modified and Accessed) for files in folders with sub-folders
I'm running on Windows.
I know that WinRAR has the option to save and restore all file dates/times (Created, Modified and Accessed) but I need to archive some files (including files in sub-folders) ...
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Is it defined to use pax across filesystems?
If I wanted to backup a *nx system, am I correct that going across filesystem boundaries would be a no-no? Would utilities like pax properly handle the jump across them or do I avoid it? If avoid it,...
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Restoring from backup made with rsync -M--fake-super
For years I have been regularly running the following command locally as a root filesystem backup in the hope I am safe:
rsync -aAXv --progress --delete / --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*&...
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Can I restore LVM PV and VG (LV) configuration to a smaller disk?
In a virtual machine the size of a disk was found to be too large by mistake after a VG with LV and filesystem had been put on it using all the space.
As VMware (they said to me) cannot reduce the ...
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What happens to default user files stored in D:/ when the drive fails?
So, on my office pc (win10) I set my default user docs to be in D:/ and not in C:/. I worked like that for 8 years storing my design files predominantly in 1 folder "Design". This year my D:/...
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How to restore MBR of Windows (10) if I have a clone of the disk? (restore the MBR only)
All the search results explain how to attempt to fix a broken boot record without a backup.
I have a backup. I have a clone of the whole physical disk (not just the partition). Due to reasons, I don't ...
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Rebuild PostgreSQL from backup after data corruption
My PostgreSQL database seems to have suffered corruption after an unclean shutdown, and now I cannot figure out how to get it out of recovery mode. Since the database does not get very frequent ...
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How can I find original or past filenames if I did not created a security copy or a point of restoration?
I used a program for changing file names in a masive way, that program I used was "reNamer", but now I'd like to return all the original names because I believe I made an error when I tried ...
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windows partition restored on specific date (unusual)
This is a super unusual issue we have encountered, a PC of our payroll staff displayed an error upon opening today (05/11/2022). --MM/dd/YYYY
see error upon opening the unit
Tried to restart the unit ...
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How to Replace failed HDD in HP ProLiant ML10 Gen 9 server which has Intel RST Raid-1 (Hardware Raid)
we have HP server HP ProLiant ML10 Gen 9 with Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS. We have enabled Raid 1 for two HDD sized 2TB using Intel RST Raid configuration (which is an hardware raid).
Now one the Drive is ...
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Can I restore a Macrium image made from one machine SSD to another to clone windows and installed applications?
I have a Dell 8700 with Windows 10 activated and various applications all on a 256GB SSD. I have purchased a used Dell 9020 with a new 256GB SSD with Windows 10 activated, and I want to use Macrium ...
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How do I restore a lost or previous session in Brave (Chromium) browser?
I MUST find an answer to this, folks, PLEASE HELP ME!
I lost all my pinned, grouped AND standalone tabs in Brave (Chromium) browser, right after the browser locked up and crashed. Upon browser restart,...
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Windows 10 C: running out of space rapidly
I started seeing warnings to free up disk space on my C: past week or so. My C: has 2TB of available SSD NVMe storage total.
I have done a couple of emergency relocations for Steam games and such ...
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How to revert to Windows 10 from Windows 11 after deleting windows.old folder?
I installed Windows 11 three months ago and didn't know windows.old would be very important, so I deleted it; however, I've decided to go back to Windows 10, but could not revert, with the only choice ...
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Accidentally overwrote a file
I accidentally overwrote an existing dataset file using the following Python command.
pickle.load(open('mydata.pickle', 'wb'))
I intended to load the data, but mistakenly used 'wb' option instead of '...
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Where does Google Chrome save the startup websites, continue where you left off?
I had to install a fresh Windows 10 on a new SSD.
The SSD on which the previous Windows 10 is installed is OK,
all files can be accessed from D:\.
About the favorites, I copied the files located in
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Request to allow restoration of HDD sectors image
I took apart my Creative Nomad Zen Xtra and opened the HDD up in HXD.exe then saved all the sectors to my d: drive so I could use the HDD for something else temporarily but then I realized I need ...
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How to handle error message (0x80071ac5) when System Restore fails in Windows 10?
The following error message appears:--
"System Restore did not complete successfully. Your computer's system files and settings were not changed."
"Details: System Restore failed while ...
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Restore not accessible USBs
Let's talk about the problem. I have 4 USBs from my mother in law which she hopes me to bring them to life, but I have no clue about what steps should I follow. If I connect them to my computer, 2 of ...
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What is a folder.pst and how can I import or search it
enter image description hereenter image description hereI need to find an important email. I saw it in the past few months and know its there somewhere.
Ive searched outlook and its "searched the ...
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Recovering deleted files deleted with Git Bash on Windows using rm -rf
While working in Git Bash on my Windows laptop, I accidently deleted important files and folders using rm -rf on C:>. Is there a way to restore them? Since the OS is Windows while tool is bash, ...
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Does running an older Windows system restore point wipe out more recent ones?
I have a number of automatically created System Restore Points on a Windows machine.
If I choose to run an older restore point, will the machine then no longer be able to access a more recent restore ...
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Error: (InvalidBSON) incorrect BSON length in element with field name 'clone_class_metrics.CE' in object with _id: ObjectId
I have windows 10 on my system with enough storage.
I have a database that is 208 GB in a file with the .agz extension.
When I import the database into my MongoDB, I face the following error:
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Recovery (restore) over PXE
How to do I restore my backup file (AOMEI or EaseUS) to multiple computers over the Internet?
How can I take a backup of my computer (Windows 10 Pro) after sysprep on the computer and restore it to ...
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Can I restore a lost Chrome session? [duplicate]
My chrome crashed on me and the restore previous session button didn't work. Is there a way to restore previous session? I had 4 windows with different tabs opened through days and they were saved ...
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Restore found.000 files to their original location in Windows 10
I have an external disk which has received some power cuts due to power failures in the office and not having power backup.
The disk for now works correctly but I have noticed that there are some ...
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Restoring Windows from files
I recently had Windows implode on me from an update gone wrong. I was able to copy all my files both as a full copy and paste onto another drive, as well as a clonezilla image. After doing a clean ...
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How can I restore the encrypted partition table of my LUKS encrypted ubuntu partition?
I accidentially deleted the partition table of one SSD. I am trying to restore everything with TestDisk and when I run analyze it shows me the following after some percent of the process:
MS Data ...
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How to restore chrome tabs after a reboot if you accidentally closed the restore popup?
I had dozen of important tabs I carried for couple days, though I did open and close several other tabs, and then i hat to reboot my computer because it was stuck.
As usual when i launched chrome, ...
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Windows 10 search box is broken after doing a system restore
I recently had a problem when I installed a software and thought that I will restore this pc to a restore point which I created when I first got my new PC. My PC is a Dell Inspiron 3471 with 8GB ram ...
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Do System Restore points affect the files stored in AppData?
I am attempting to recover old System Restore points on a Windows 10 install. I am looking specifically for files that may have been stored in the AppData directory and I need to know whether or not ...
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Restore built-in list styles gallery
I removed the list styles and can't get them back.
I have tried restoring the global template Normal.dotm, but it doesn't work.
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How can I restore app data after a failed uninstall?
I'm not sure if the title for this question is correct, but I have an application installed at "C:\Program Files". I only have read access for "Program Files" and everything ...
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Is there a way to restore files that have been deleted with an OS?
I dual booted kali with Windows 10, but when I reboot my computer or try to disable secure startup (to exit kali OS), it says that there's no bootable devices found, even though I am absolutely ...
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Using rsync to back up my Arch Linux distribution seems to have deleted my EUFI bootable drive. How can I fix this
I am operating the March 2021 version of Arch Linux on a Dell XPS 13 9310 laptop. I would list the Arch Linux kernel, unfortunately I cannot boot into my system to get it. The linux distribution was ...
