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Creating Backups With Back In Time On An Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:57:00 -0400

This tutorial explains how to install and use Back In Time on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. Back In Time is a simple backup tool for Linux inspired from "flyback project" and "TimeVault". The backup is done by taking snapshots of a specified set of directories. Tagged by falko under back in time, backup, restore, ubuntu,

Creating Backups With luckyBackup On An Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:19:00 -0400

This tutorial explains how to install and use luckyBackup on an Ubuntu 9.04 desktop. luckyBackup is an application for data back-up and synchronization powered by the rsync tool. It is simple to use, fast (transfers over only changes made and not all data), safe (keeps your data safe by checking all declared directories before proceeding in any data manipulation ), reliable and fully customizable. Tagged by falko under luckybackup, backup, restore, ubuntu, rsync,

Creating Snapshot-Backups with BackerUpper On Ubuntu 9.04 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:54:00 -0400

BackerUpper is a tool similar to Apple's TimeMachine. It is intended to create snapshot-backups of selected directories or even your full hard drive. From the BackerUpper project page: "Backerupper is a simple program for backing up selected directories over a local network. Its main intended purpose is backing up a user's personal data." This article shows how to install and use BackerUpper on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). Tagged by falko under backerupper, backup, ubuntu, snapshot,

Back Up/Restore Hard Drives And Partitions With CloneZilla Live | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:08:00 -0500

This tutorial shows how you can back up and restore hard drives and partitions with CloneZilla Live. CloneZilla Live is a Linux Live-CD that you insert into your computer; it contains hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tools similar to Norton Ghost. The created images are compressed and can be transferred to a Samba-, SSH-, or NFS server or to a local hard drive or USB drive. Tagged by falko under clonezilla, backup, restore, linux,

Clone/Back Up/Restore OpenVZ VMs With vzdump | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:57:00 -0500

vzdump is a backup and restore utility for OpenVZ VMs. This tutorial shows how you can use it to clone/back up/restore virtual machines with vzdump. Tagged by falko under vzdump, openvz, virtualization, virtual machine, backup,

How To Back Up An Ubuntu 8.10 System With SystemImager | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:56:00 -0500

SystemImager lets you create images of your Linux installations. To do so, you need an image server (should have enough disk space to store your images) and a so-called golden client (i.e., the system of which you want to make an image). This means that you have to install some software on your image server and on your golden client in order to run SystemImager. This tutorial shows how to install a SystemImager server and a SystemImager client, both using Ubuntu 8.10, and how to create/update/restore/delete images. Tagged by falko under systemimager, backup, restore, ubuntu, rsync,

QuickStart, The Swiss Army Knife For Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:45:00 -0400

In this article I will show how to install and use QuickStart on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop. QuickStart is like a Swiss army knife, it allows you to do various things on your Ubuntu desktop: creating and restoring backups, running scheduled backups, backing up configuration files, installing some common applications, installing DVD codecs, deleting unnecessary files, etc. Tagged by falko under quickstart, ubuntu, backup, restore, codecs,

Back Up Your Files With Areca On Fedora 9 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:21:00 -0400

Areca is a personal file backup software developed in Java. It allows you to select files or directories to back up, filter, encrypt and compress their content, and store them on your backup location. Areca supports incremental backups and generates backup reports, which can be stored on your disk or sent by email. This guide explains how to install and use it on a Fedora 9 desktop (GNOME). Tagged by falko under areca, fedora, backup, gnome, linux,

Scheduled Backups With Rsyncbackup On Debian Etch | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:20:00 -0400

This document describes how to set up and configure rsyncbackup on Debian Etch. Rsyncbackup is a Perl script that cooperates with rsync. It is easy to configure and able to create scheduled backups (partial and incremental backups). Tagged by falko under rsyncbackup, rsync, backup, restore, debian, linux,

Creating Snapshot-Backups with BackerUpper On Ubuntu 7.10 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:12:00 -0400

BackerUpper is a tool similar to Apple's TimeMachine. It is intended to create snapshot-backups of selected directories or even your full hard drive. From the BackerUpper project page: "Backerupper is a simple program for backing up selected directories over a local network. Its main intended purpose is backing up a user's personal data." This article shows how to install and use BackerUpper on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). Tagged by falko under backerupper, backup, restore, ubuntu, linux,

Back Up Your Files With Fwbackups On Fedora 8 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:28:00 -0500

This document describes how to set up, configure and use Fwbackups on a Fedora 8 desktop. The result is an easy-to-use backup system for desktop usage. Fwbackups creates partial backups which can be stored locally or on a removable device. You have also the option to run scheduled backups. Tagged by falko under fwbackups, fedora, desktop, backup, restore, linux,

Creating Snapshot-Backups with FlyBack On Ubuntu 7.10 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:50:00 -0500

FlyBack is a tool similar to Apple's TimeMachine. It is intended to create snapshot-backups of selected directories or even your full hard drive. From the FlyBack project page: "FlyBack is a snapshot-based backup tool based on rsync. It creates successive backup directories mirroring the files you wish to backup, but hard-links unchanged files to the previous backup. This prevents wasting disk space while providing you with full access to all your files without any sort of recovery program. If your machine crashes, just move your external drive to your new machine and copy the latest backup using whatever file browser you normally use." This article shows how to install and use FlyBack on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). Tagged by falko under flyback, timemachine, backup, snapshot, ubuntu,

Creating Snapshot Backups Of Your Desktop With Timevault On Ubuntu 7.10 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:04:00 -0500

This guide shows how to use Timevault on Ubuntu 7.10. TimeVault is a simple front-end for making snapshots of a set of directories. Snapshots are a copy of a directory structure or file at a certain point in time. Restore functionality is integrated into Nautilus. Tagged by falko under timevault, snapshot, backup, ubuntu, gutsy gibbon, nautilus, restore,

Creating Encrypted FTP Backups With duplicity And ftplicity On Debian Etch | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:44:00 -0500

When you rent a dedicated server nowadays, almost all providers give you FTP backup space for your server on one of the provider's backup systems. This tutorial shows how you can use duplicity and ftplicity to create encrypted (so that nobody with access to the backup server can read sensitive data in your backups) backups on the provider's remote backup server over FTP. ftplicity is a duplicity wrapper script (provided by the German computer magazine c't) that allows us to use duplicity without interaction (i.e., you do not have to type in any passwords). Tagged by falko under duplicity, ftplicity, backup, ftp, encrypted, encryption, debian, etch, linux, server,

Back Up Your Files With Pybackpack On Fedora 8 | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:10:00 -0500

This document describes how to set up, configure and use Pybackpack on Fedora 8. The result is an easy to use backup system for desktop usage. Pybackpack creates incremental backups which can be stored locally or remotely (SSH) - the usage of removable devices is supported. You also have the option to burn the backup(s) directly on a CD/DVD. Tagged by falko under pybackpack, backup, fedora, linux,

Disk Based Backups With Amanda On Debian Etch | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 06:23:00 -0400

This document describes how to set up Amanda (The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver) on Debian Etch. For this tutorial I chose Ubuntu v7.04 as a backup-client. The resulting system provides a flexible backup system with many features. It will be able to back up multiple hosts via network to various devices. I chose the disk based backup for this howto. Tagged by falko under amanda, backup, linux, debian, etch, debian etch, restore,

Setting Up Postfix As A Backup MX | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:21:00 -0400

In this tutorial I will show how you can set up a Postfix mailserver as a backup mail exchanger for a domain so that it accepts mails for this domain in case the primary mail exchanger is down or unreachable, and passes the mails on to the primary MX once that one is up again. Tagged by falko under postfix, mx, backup mx, secondary mx, linux, server, mail, mail exchanger,

How To Back Up MySQL Databases Without Interrupting MySQL | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Mon, 14 May 2007 05:51:00 -0400

This article describes how you can back up MySQL databases without interrupting the MySQL service. Normally, when you want to create a MySQL backup, you either have to stop MySQL or issue a read lock on your MySQL tables in order to get a correct backup; if you do not do it this way, you can end up with an inconsistent backup. To get consistent backups without interrupting MySQL, I use a little trick: I replicate my MySQL database to a second MySQL server, and on the second MySQL server I use a cron job that creates regular backups of the replicated database. Tagged by falko under mysql, backup, replication, interruption, linux, server,

Back Up (And Restore) LVM Partitions With LVM Snapshots | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:07:00 -0400

This tutorial shows how you can create backups of LVM partitions with an LVM feature called LVM snapshots. An LVM snapshot is an exact copy of an LVM partition that has all the data from the LVM volume from the time the snapshot was created. The big advantage of LVM snapshots is that you don't have to worry about open files and database connections, and you don't have to interrupt/halt services on the live partition because a snapshot is usually created in fractions of a second, so your users won't notice any disruption, and your snapshot holds consistent data. Tagged by falko under lvm, snapshot, backup, restore, recovery, storage, data, linux,

Creating a dd/dcfldd Image Using Automated Image & Restore (AIR) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

falko — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:34:00 -0500

Automated Image & Restore (AIR) is an open source application that provides a GUI front end to the dd/dcfldd (Dataset Definition (dd)) command. AIR is designed to easily create forensic disk/partition images. It supports MD5/SHAx hashes, SCSI tape drives, imaging over a TCP/IP network, splitting images, and detailed session logging. Tagged by falko under dd, dcfldd, image, backup, restore, restoration, linux, air,