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| - | Checking your backup is correct before rebooting | + | ======Checking your backup is correct before rebooting====== |
| - | + | =====Make a copy of mydata.tgz===== | |
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| - | Warning | + | |
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| - | I am a TC newbie, and for brevity have removed home/tc from my backup to keep it short. | + | |
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| - | I am right handed, reverse instruction to RH click to LH if you are left handed please. | + | |
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| - | ====== Suggest you put a copy of mydata.tgz | + | |
| Let us pretend you have made a change to a system file, click on cpanel and clicked on backup....to backup the correct device. | Let us pretend you have made a change to a system file, click on cpanel and clicked on backup....to backup the correct device. | ||
| - | Do not click logout and try backup there, in case your file is not backed up. | ||
| Where is your backup file? | Where is your backup file? | ||
| < | < | ||
| - | /mnt/sda2/ | + | /mnt/sda1/ |
| + | Then copy that file onto usb stick etc or email it to yourself attaching mydata.tgz.\\ | ||
| + | Most email clients should show a date stamp so you can keep various emails and so various backups.\\ | ||
| + | Include a summary of your changes in the subject line. | ||
| - | ====== | ||
| + | =====Quick way of viewing contents===== | ||
| - | Change sda2 to whatever your result is in the below steps please. | + | < |
| + | sudo tar tzf / | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | Change sda1 to wherever the find command reports please | ||
| + | =====credits===== | ||
| - | ===== The steps ===== | + | stu\\ |
| + | aus9 | ||
| - | < | ||
| - | cp / | ||
| - | cd mydata | ||
| - | tar zxvf mydata.tgz ---> (result was) | ||
| - | etc/ | ||
| - | etc/ | ||
| - | etc/ | ||
| - | etc/shadow | ||
| - | opt/ | ||
| - | opt/ | ||
| - | opt/ | ||
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| - | opt/ | ||
| - | opt/ | ||
| - | </ | ||
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| - | If files do not appear in result, fix it before rebooting please. | ||
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| - | Consider installing mc.tcz (and its dependencies) | ||
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| - | Open a terminal and run the command mc | ||
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| - | At bottom of screen type the command to get you to your data file (for me its) | ||
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| - | cd / | ||
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| - | Arrow down to mydata.tgz | ||
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| - | Press F3 buttton to view it, and F3 to exit that view. | ||
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| - | {{http:// | ||
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| - | ====== | ||
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| - | Suggest you pulldown " | ||
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| - | Navigate to / | ||
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| - | Bookmark it | ||
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| - | Right hand click mydata.tgz and select " | ||
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| - | {{http:// | ||
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| - | Choose / | ||
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| - | Navigate to / | ||
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| - | Click into it to view results | ||
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| - | I check by doing | ||
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| - | sudo tar tzf / | ||
| - | </ | ||
| - | then to save it I email myself attaching mydata.tgz. | ||
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| - | stu | ||
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