Backup problems
My computer (a Dell B130 laptop) had Ubuntu installed with the 'sudo apt-get kubuntu-desktop' command used. It was working fine until fine until one day KDE kept saying MIME-TYPE not found before opening any application. I was in India at the time. My brother tried to download some pictures from my Pentax digital camera.
Then for some reason the sound mixers could not be found, I could not connect to the internet, the gdm package uninstalled itself, and I could not mount devices on /media/sda1/ or /media/sdc0 correctly. It kept resulting in weird files called 001, 002, etc. or folders of the same name. I have many valuable files on the computer such as irreplaceable pictures. I need to somehow transfer it too another computer. I have .tar.7z everything I intend on keeping. How do I get it on a another computer? I have tried using a Ubuntu LiveCD and mounting the hard drive, but it doesn't work. Can anyone help me in this dilema? |
Using a live CD is the best thing to do. What exactly didn't work, what did you do, what messages did you get?
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Start the computer with a boot cd, mount disk. Go to the directory and do the following for copying with ssh: scp thefile.tar.7z username@target-host-ip:/home/username THis would do the trick. FOr copying to an external drive: mount both drives, after that do: cp thefile.tar.7z /media/removable-disk (of course you should replace the names) |
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Any easy solution is boot up from a slax live cd, access the files, and burn
them on a dvd or copy the files to external HD.If I ever screw up my system, thats what I do to recover the files from the /home partition. Good luck! ;) |
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same as I said :p just a different location. But burning cd's or dvd's is slow. |
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