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I think I totally deleted a very important folder and I'm freaking out. How can I go back to old restore points?
So I bought a new Notebook and installed Linux on it because I never used it and I wanted to try it. I used it for about two weeks before giving up yesterday and installing Windows 7, Linux is not for ...
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Restore Windows Image Backup file from a live Linux session
I have a Windows Image Backup file created from within Windows. However, the Windows installation media refuses to read the drive it's on (USB 3, Win7, doesn't want to work). Instead, I was wondering ...
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how long should it take for ntfsclone to complete?
I am trying to backup a Windows 7 installation from a Kubuntu box.
The hard drive is a 320GB Toshiba directly connected to a SATA interface and has always wored well.
My initiall attempt was to use ...
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Server initiated backup
I've read the most secure way to handle backups is to have the server initiate it and be un-writable to the client. This prevents encrypting viruses from getting your backups as well as your attached ...
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How do I image a external disk with a linux install and restore it to a smaller external disk [closed]
I have a bootable 1T external USB disk but only have a Linux OS and few other things on it. It is only used about 50GB. I have another 500GB external USB disk. I am thinking transfer the state of the ...
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Properly Restore Data Backup from Windows 7 in Linux (Mint)
I recently installed Linux Mint on my computer, dual booting with Windows 7. However, in the process I managed to corrupt my hard drive (trying to convert a "dynamic" Windows disk back to a "basic" ...
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Automatic system for os image creation/recovery
I will be doing some laptop cleaning with full disk format and os reinstal of Win7. And I thought about creating sepereate linux partition for os partition image.
I know that It can be easily done ...
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Migrating files from Windows to Linux
I am converting my Windows 7 to an Arch Linux machine, and was wondering what the safest way to backup my files for use on Linux was.
I don't want to use the Windows Backup and Restore facility as ...
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Windows VS Linux - Bare Metal Backup Restores
I have been working with a few tools like Acronis TIEWS and CloneZilla, and have a question with respect to deploying backups for the two of them. In both cases, I could use a disk cloning/imaging ...
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Backup Windows 7: Can I just copy files from one partition to another?
I've had a lot of issues recently with HDDs so I'm about to make huge backups of everything, but I need some suggestions. First, here is my current setup:
SSD1: 128 GB with debian + my debian "home ...
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dd cloned drive not recognised by Windows
I have a Lenovo Windows 7 laptop with an MBR hard drive I want to clone. I used a Linux (Kali, FYI) live USB stick, booted on the PC and used dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc bs=100M conv=notrunc to clone ...
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Software, with a RAID / cloud-backup like capability
I would like to have a backup, on my own PCs, laptop, server. Wherever I can install that software, and set this up.
Let's say I want to have a 50gb of storage. So I install this software on every ...
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Compatibility issues with windows 7 backup and linux partition
I'd like to make use of the Windows 7 backup feature for system settings and user profiles due to some major hiccups in the past. Problem now is that my main OS is a linux install which also resides ...
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Backup several computers to single Computer in network
I am currently trying to figure out what's the best way to backup several PCs (about 5 computers each with Windows 7) from my family.
As I want the same solution for all Computer - I set up my old ...
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Backing up Windows 7 programs
I want to do a clean re-install of Windows 7 but there are files and installed programs which need to be backed up and restored. I tried using the Windows 7 backup utility to do a full backup to an ...
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