Since the implementation of the lockfile option I cannot run duplicity via anacron (https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/1320641). Is there any way to circumvent this?
I have a VM machine running ubuntu 14.04 (guest) on a Win7 host. I currently have the resolution of the server set to 1024*768 by adding this
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash xvga=1024x768x24"
GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768x24
to /etc/default/grub.
However I cannot get higher resolutions. When I set for example 1200*800 it resets to 640*480. I have allocated 128MB video memory.
Can I get to higher resolutions?
I have an hourly crontab job
@hourly rsync -avc --delete /DirA/ /DirB/ > /home/job.txt
However when I check the logbook I see no timestamps. How can I get timestamps in the log so that I can be able to see when error occur?
I compared Deja backup/duplicity to Time Machine on similar hardware and Deja/duplicity is at least an order of magnitude faster. On same hardware an 100 MB incremental backup on Time Machine required the same time as 14 GB full backup in duplicity. Incremental backups in duplicity are lightning fast.
How does duplicity recognize changed files so fast in order to perform incremental backups?
Does anyone know how I can insert the Interpunct character (also known as midline decimal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpunct ) in Ubuntu. The combination mentioned in the Wikipedia article does not seem to Work:
Alt Gr + .
I have already set a backup routine that backups all my files to Amazon S3 using duplicity. I would like to create a similar backup routine with Google Cloud Storage. Is it possible to get duplicity to work with GCS?
Deja-dup (now Ubuntu Backup) is just a GUI for duplicity, therefore it should store the config files somewhere. I would like to changed the backup volume size to something like 300MB and the increase the --full-if-older-than variable. is this possible?
Since 12.04 I cannot connect to my VPN. my ovpn file is the following
http://email.uoa.gr/help/download/vpn/edunet.ovpn
When I try to import the VPN file i get the following error
The file 'edunet.ovpn' could not be read or does not contain recognized VPN connection information
Error: unknown PPTP file extension.
Is there any way arround this error? I have already installed network-manager-openvpn
I am on 12.04 64bit, on 3 monitors, 12.3 fglrx drivers and use Libreoffice 3.5.3 (Ubuntu repositories). The menus of Libreoffice seem to open on the wrong screen. It seems this is an old bug, but i have only noticed it when ubuntu updated Libreoffice to 3.5.3. Previously everything was OK. Every other application behaves OK.
This issues has been reported in bugzilla http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg18576.html and launchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/974900
Does anyone knows if there is a workaround? This bug prevents me from using LibreOffice.
LibreOffice is seeing some dramatic improvements each version and subversion that goes out.
I would like to have always the latest version of LibreOffice on my machine(s). I know of the PPA that exists but is it recommended to use it with 12.04 for daily use? What are the pro and cons of using the PPA? Will it break my system/Libreoffice installation?
Does libreoffice get eventually also upgraded in the Ubuntu repositories or does this upgrade happen only with new releases? Who manages the upgrades of libreoffice in Ubuntu and in the PPA?
How can I check when was the last time anacron completed all the daily/weekly/monthly jobs? I understand that the timestamps at /var/spool/anacron are the times anacron started, but it can be that the system was restarted or shutdown between start and completion.
Is it possible to check the status and timestamp of completion of every anacron job seperately?
I am considering buying a new PC, with Intel HD 3000. I have 3 monitors, the MB has VGA, HDMI and DVI outputs. Is it possible to work with 3 monitors in such a system (with 12.04 or 11.10)? Does anyone have any experience to share on this?
I would like to make a program in the Unity Dash to launch with a custom option, as for example in the terminal it would be
xyz --reconfig
Is this possible?
Should one use the PPA or manually install the .debs from http://www.libreoffice.org?
Is there any difference between the two? How long does it take for the ppa to upgrade to the latest version?
How can I set duplicity to exclude all hidden files and folders from backing them up, without specifying each and every one of them?
I am writing a document and it is required that the first page (title page) has no page number and the second page starts with page 2. I don't know how to remove the footed only in page 1 and leaving the footer in the rest of the pages as is. Can anyone maybe help? Many thanks
There is a known behavior of anacron not to run when the laptop is running on batteries. Is there any way to stop this behavior and run anacron whatever the power state?
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=152402
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg560900.html
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/anacron/+bug/36816
I have set a daily anacron job, which runs form /etc/cron.daily. From the /etc/crontab I see it should run daily at 06:25 (or at start-up/reboot).
However when the date changes (00:00) and the computer is up, I dont want anacron to wait till 06:25. If the computer is up I would like to it to run the script as soon as the date changes (00:00). Does it make sense to add a cron job to run anacron @hourly?
Thank you very much
I wan to run a backup script once per day but I don't want to specify a certain time, just once per day. I've read that the @daily cron attribute runs every day at 00:00 but i don't know if the receiving server will be up at this time.
Is it possible to configure cron to run this script just once per day irrespective of the time? Or run the script until it succeeds and then try again the next day?
@reboot would be an option however the sending end might reboot several times per day in which case it would lead to unnecessary backups.
Have a PC with multiple HDDs some used only for backup. Should I leave them unmounted? IS the power consumption less when the HDD is unmounted? Do the HDDs spin when unmounted?
Thanks a lot