[PLUG] Backup problems (urgent)

Ken Stephens kens at cad2cam.com
Mon Aug 18 04:02:47 UTC 2014


John Jason Jordan wrote:
> I have spent th past hour trying to make a backup of my Home to an
> external device and continue to fail. My Home folder is on a separate
> partition, /dev/sdb2.The problem is that I cannot boot to the
> installation and must boot to a live media. I have tried Xubuntu
> 14.04.1 and Knoppix 7.2, both of which will happily mount the devices,
> but refuse to allow me to write to them, even when mounted as root and
> when I run the cp command as root. I realize the problem is that the
> live media OS doesn't own the data, but there must be a way to copy the
> data to an external drive. What is the secret?
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John,

Is there a mechanical interlock on the external drive?

Have you tried sudo mount -o remount,rw "filesystem" to your target drive?

Ken




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