Time Machine is a simple backup software in Apple’s Mac OS, “it automatically saves up-to-date copies of everything on Mac such as photos, music, videos, documents, applications, and settings.Time Machine works with an external hard drive or Apple Time Capsule using wireless” (quote from apple.com). This tutorial is setting up a Time Machine server on […]

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Redo Backup and Recovery is a free and easy-use,most complete disaster recovery solution available.”It allows bare-metal restore, which means that even if your hard drive melts or gets completely erased by a virus, you can have a completely-functional system back up and running in as little as 10 minutes.” Don’t worry about that you cannot […]

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If you’re a Linux big fan,you’d have a couple of Linux distributions in your computer.And there is a free software called MultiBoot can make them all bootable in one liveusb,so that you won’t worry about how boring to burn them each. MultiBoot will enable you to make a liveusb to do everything,ideal for exploring different […]

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Remastersys is a backup tool that can backup complete ubuntu system including user data and create both cdfs and iso image.So you can use this backup to reinstall ubuntu or install in other computers with all installed packages and user data. Install Remastersys Go to System->Administration->Software Sources->In Other Software tab,click Add add following,then reload: for […]

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Full hard disk copy: dd if=/dev/hdx of=/dev/hdy dd if=/dev/hdx of=/path/to/image dd if=/dev/hdx | gzip > /path/to/image.gz Hdx could be hda, hdb etc. In the second example gzip is used to compress the image if it is really just a backup. Restore Backup of hard disk copy: dd if=/path/to/image of=/dev/hdx gzip -dc /path/to/image.gz | dd of=/dev/hdx […]

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If you have a system install Live-CD,and you want to create an .iso image file from this CD. Follow these steps: 1.Insert this CD into cd-rom. 2.You ubuntu will auto-mount this,and you can see an icon on desktop.Open up terminal(Applications->Accessories->Terminal) and type: mount You will see something like this: /dev/sda7 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro) […]

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pyBackPack is a GUI backup tool that you can easily backup/restore your data to/from local file system,CDs/DVDs,and remote file system from network using ssh. Install pyBackPack in ubuntu Just use this command in terminal window: sudo apt-get install pybackpack this will properly installed,and you can launch from System->Administration->File Backup Manager Use pybackpack When you open […]

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In this tutorial shows how to backup your home directory to a remote drive along with a list of sources and installed packages.There’s also a GUI tool that make backups to remote host. First,open a terminal window and type this command: sudo aptitude install smbclient smbfs Configure your network drive properly and make sure you […]

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It’s very very easy to create a bootable Ubuntu live USB.You just need UNetbootin,Ubuntu .iso image and a usb device. UNetbootin is a tool,allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions. 1.Install UNetbootin,install it in Windows or Linux. Here is how to install UNetbootin in ubuntu For windows,just go […]

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UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions from Windows or Linux, without requiring you to burn a CD. You can either let it download one of the many distributions supported out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file if you’ve already downloaded one or your […]

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