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26 Jun

Backup Del.icio.us posts

Backup all delicious bookmarks using this command


wget --user=username --password=password https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all -O bookmarks.xml

20 Jun

Use these commands to backup/restore your boot sector


dd if=/dev/hda of=bootsector.img bs=512 count=1 # backup
dd if=bootsector.img of=/dev/hda #restore

04 Apr

Make a incremental backup of directory ‘/home/binnyva’


tar -Puf backup.tar /home/binnyva

17 Mar

Make a copy of MBR (Master Boot Record) to a file.


dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.img bs=512 count=1

dd if=mbr.img of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 #restore the MBR

22 Feb

Make a backup of a local hard disk on remote host via ssh


dd bs=1M if=/dev/hda | gzip | ssh user@ip_addr 'dd of=hda.gz'

05 Dec

Backup content of the harddrive to a file. Creates an image of the drive


dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/sda.iso

01 Dec

This command will import all the MySQL sql dumps in the current folder. You can use this to restore your backuped databases.


for i in *; do mysql -uroot `basename $i .sql` < $i;  done

13 Jun


rsync -rogpav -e ssh --delete /home/binnyva 192168.0.30:/var/Backup/home

10 May

Restoring a backup created by the dump command.


restore -if home_backup.bak

30 Apr

Make a incremental backup of directory ‘/home/binnyva’


dump -1aj -f home.bak /home/binnyva/