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Combining two disjoint ddrescue backup images
I have a 3 TB drive which recently started to malfunction. I was using the ddrescue utility on Debian to read data off the disk to a different external hard drive. However, after 2 TB of data had been ...
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How to force rsync to stop if destination disk is full?
I am using rsync (version 3.1.0 on a centos) to do some backup task. I develop a software that monitor my rsync processes to fit the backup configuration to my buisness logic.
My software launch some ...
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How to harden external hard disk against ransomware
With the basic consumer backup setup that uses a permanently connected external hard drive to store the backup, with simple backup software or a robocopy script, what can be done to protect the disk ...
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Volume label on 2TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim external hard drive does not appear in Windows Explorer (but is visible in Disk Management)
I've been experiencing some weird things with my Seagate drives. I think this happened when I tried to "vaccinate" the drives with Panda Free Anti-Virus. My WD 2TB and my internal hard drives worked ...
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Can an external backup drive became uninitialized on its own?
I have a brand new Toshiba 3Tb external that I used once to store by back-ups while I gave my computer a clean state, (after a couple years she was starting to lag.) After backing up, I tested the ...
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How to back up a Windows Home Server over the network?
One of the very few reasons I have to physically interact with my Windows Home Server is to back it up to an external hard drive, with the "Backup Server" feature.
It would be more convenient to plug ...
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Backup iCloud files to an external hard drive?
What are my options for backing up every file on my iCloud to an (exFAT) external hard disk?
Right now I have more files on iCloud than space on my Mac internal hard drive.
Copying folders from the ...
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Hard Drive space used but files are in found.000 and cannot be accessed
I had used Virtualbox for a virtual machine which had froze for a long period of time and would not close by shutting it down normally. I closed it by clicking the cross and restarted my machine. I ...
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How to backup my Google Drive for Windows files onto an external backup drive
I'm on Windows 10, and trying to organise my file system and backups. I would like to have all of my "main" files (documents, etc.) on Google Drive, so I can access them across different ...
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Windows 10 backup stuck at 97%
I was backing up my ssd to an external usb hard drive, and it was almost over being done. It says Creating a system image of windows (C:) but its stuck there for an hour. The green bar thingy is also ...
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System Image Recovery: can't find my backed up image
Summary: On a PC with Windows not booting, I want to restore my files with System Image Recovery, but it won’t find the backed up image.
My Desktop (Windows 10) won’t boot to Windows anymore (...
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Is it possible to disconnect a HDD by using a switch?
Background story: over time, I bought a lot of external hard drives. I got bored playing DJ with hard disks, and bought a Synology NAS (16TB JBOD, backed up to 8 external 2TB HDDs).
Skipping forward, ...
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Figuring out the size of data on an external harddrive
I have an external HD, a seagate backup plus slim 2TB. The filesystem on it is exfat. It has a single partition. I want to create a new partition table for this device, so I can use different ...
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Time Machine backup folder getting twice as big on other hdd?
So i have an old 1TB HDD for my Time Machine backups. Its nearly full (950gb used) and now i decided to move to a bigger HDD (i buyed a 5TB drive, but made partitions to split it to 2TB and 3TB, the ...
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Veracrypt to Veracrypt copy hangs
For several years I've made a backup of my backup by plugging both USB external HDDs into my Windows 10 laptop, mounting them via Veracrypt and then simply dragging and dropping with File Explorer. ...
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