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1. Folder backup system install#
2. Folder backup system Patch#
3. Folder backup system full#
4. Folder backup system password#
5. Folder backup system plus#

"Backup-Saturday"'Įcho '.tar will automatically be added as a file extension'ĭpkg -get-selections >. # sudo update-initramfs # to get plymouth sunrise splash screenĮcho 'One argument required for file name, e.g. # sudo update-grub # NVMe suspend/resume acpiphp.disable=1 # Manually copy ~/Pictures, ~/Videos, etc. # Restore packages using `aptitude-run-state-bundle` on Target # Copy state-bundle.tar file from Source to Target machine # Clone packages using `aptitude-create-state-bundle` on Source

Folder backup system Patch#

# Patch /etc/default/grub with new machine parameters, ie for nvme use: # yar -xvf Backup-yymmdd-DayFfWeekName.tar -C / # sudo tar -xvf Backup-yymmdd-DayFfWeekName.tar -C / # Make missing home/bin directory which tar doesn't create automatically: # Open and download attachment `$1` which is usually called # stable main' | sudo tee /etc/apt//google-chrome.list

Folder backup system password#

# Connect to network with password xxxxxxxxx

Folder backup system install#

# To restore use Live USB to install Ubuntu alongside Windows 10 # NOTE: CLONE CURRENT INSTALLATION TO NEW MACHINE # sudo dd if=/dev/sda of="$HOME/.mbr.sav" bs=512 count=1 # NOTE: To include MBR (Master Boot Record) in backup create an image using: HomeDir="/home/USER_NAME" # Required for cron PARM: 1=backup file name. # DESC: Backup scripts, documents and configuration files to. Here is the daily backup script of what's important to me: #!/bin/bash The best kind of backup is off-site in case of fire or flood where computer sits so I take advantage of free 15GB account and send a compressed daily backup there.Īfter a couple of years I hit my 15 GB "free" quota so wrote a script to recycle backups into 180 days, 78 weeks, 36 months and 100 yearly backups. It is controlled through /etc/cron.daily script. I have the backup run every morning at 4:00 am or whenever Laptop resumes from suspend.

Folder backup system plus#

I backup what is important to me which can loosely be defined as my intellectual property plus efforts spent configuring Ubuntu to work perfectly (for me). (I'm very open to suggestions as to how I could make this better.) I now make these before I reorganize partitions, and before I test my backup restore functions. The one thing they provide you with is a partition map, and images from non-linux partitions. And it's how I used to backup my Windows systems using Acronis. These take a lot of time to backup and restore and may leave your system down while that work is proceeding.

Folder backup system full#

*****And, although you didn't ask, one can make full disk or partition images. Just know that the rest of us struggle with this too. So part of backing up is understanding what is where and when it is created and modified. So the only reason you might want to backup /bin is because you have changed it or added to it. It restores /bin, /etc, /root, /usr, etc. You haven't changed anything yet, so you can simply reinstall Ubuntu. What would you need to back up? Answer: nothing. Here are a couple of pages that might help understand these directories:Ī related line of thinking is: Say you just installed a fresh Ubuntu. That leaves other changes you've made to your system in /etc, /opt, /srv, and /usr which you will want to also backup, either together or individually. There will be times when you will want to restore just /home. You can either back these up or rely on a fresh install to recover them. bin, /boot, /lib, /lib64, and /sbin presumably will get reloaded via a reinstall of Ubuntu unless you are doing system development work or something like that. var contains variable data like system logging files, mail and printer spool directories, and transient and temporary files." I now back it up, except for /var/log. be careful to exit immediately after you inspect /root.) On my system /root is empty (use sudo -s to open a shell as root user to view it. dev, /lost+found, /proc, /run, /sys and /tmp get auto re-created on reboot. cdrom, /media, and /mnt are mount points so don't need backup. First take a look at your root directory, and then work backwards.įor example, cd / ls -F gives me: bin/ mnt/ snap/ opt/ srv/ lib/ proc/ sys/ Start by figuring out what does not need to be backed up.

So this is going to take a little work on your part to sort out. What you need to backup depends on your particular system*.