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System backup restore replication

System backup restore replication After Ive spent quite a while configuring and tweaking the system it is a natural thought to save its state so that if anything goes wrong I could restore it back. My requirements were: free and simple solution fast backup/restore I was using acronis true image for my windows system, but on linux theres a free and great tool that can do the job - fsarchiver. It is not installed by default so you have to install it via synaptic/apt-get It really is simple and great, can backup separate folders and the whole fs.. To backup the whole system I run it from the bootable media. Preparation. Get rescue disk from here. Burn it or create a bootable usb drive. Boot from the media. Mount the drive that will hold the backup image. Backup: $ fsarchiver savefs -j 2 -v ~/flash.fsa /dev/sdd1 Restore: $ fsarchiver restfs /data/flash.fsa id=0,dest=/dev/sdd1 -j option enables the usage of 2 CPUs, -v is for more information during the execution. download  file  now

System Restore Points deleted or gone missing in Windows 7 8

System Restore Points deleted or gone missing in Windows 7 8 System Restore Points deleted If this is the case you might want to check up on the following things! Check if your System Restore is �on� and working and that you have not manually turned off system restore. Because if you have manually turned off system restore, all your points get deleted. Check if you have sufficient disk space on the drive/s because if you run out of available space, System Restore will just stop monitoring your system. System Restore is automatically suspended when there is less than 200 MB of free hard-disk space on the system drive and automatically resumes its monitoring activities, after 15 minutes, at the next system idle time, as soon as 200 MB of hard-disk space is available. If you have upgraded to a newer version of Windows, the older system restore points may have got deleted. Did you use the Disk Cleanup utility to delete all but the last restore point? Or maybe deleted ALL the restore po...