(Question) Backing-up Kali Linux

So it seems to me that Kali decides to completely shit the bed every 8-10 months or so. Most recently it was stuck after booting through grub to a plain black screen NO underscore. I tried to disable GUI loading, reinstalled all related software, and got nowhere. Couldn't find any help online although I was still able to bring up CLI. Gave up, installed a new pre-built image for virtual box.

With that said, do you guys know of any tools or ways to automatically backup the system? I'd prefer to be able to have multiple backups (in terms of dates)

I don't know of any tools for a system-wide backup, though I'm sure they're out there. In any case, it's always worth investing in a decent external or large USB for backing up your documents and such.

Well it shouldn't be too hard to code, if it wouldn't be available yet. I'll take a look if I can find something otherwise I might build something for you.

(12-08-2016, 04:31 AM)DarkMuse Wrote:

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Couldn't find any help online although I was still able to bring up CLI. Gave up, installed a new pre-built image for virtual box.

If you're solely using Kali on your VM, why not use the "Snapshot" feature In VirtualBox?

You can take a Snapshot (backup) and restore as you please.

(12-08-2016, 03:23 PM)mothered Wrote:

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(12-08-2016, 04:31 AM)DarkMuse Wrote:

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Couldn't find any help online although I was still able to bring up CLI. Gave up, installed a new pre-built image for virtual box.

If you're solely using Kali on your VM, why not use the "Snapshot" feature In VirtualBox?

You can take a Snapshot (backup) and restore as you please.

I'd like to automate it though.

(12-08-2016, 04:52 PM)DarkMuse Wrote:

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I'd like to automate it though.

That's fair enough.

I've come across this article that may be of help:

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I haven't tested It, so whether It works remains to be seen. To my knowledge, I don't know of any tool (or native feature of VirtualBox) that will automate the snapshot.

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So it seems to me that Kali decides to completely shit the bed every 8-10 months or so. Most recently it was stuck after booting through grub to a plain black screen NO underscore. I tried to disable GUI loading, reinstalled all related software, and got nowhere. Couldn't find any help online although I was still able to bring up CLI. Gave up, installed a new pre-built image for virtual box.

With that said, do you guys know of any tools or ways to automatically backup the system? I'd prefer to be able to have multiple backups (in terms of dates)

Nothing to say about backing up, but, this happens to me too, it seems to happen on all the debian-based distros that I've used.
Hint: Switch to the dark side and come to Arch, for newcomers, I reccomend intsalling Antergos XFCE and then adding BlackArch or ArchStrike Repos.

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(12-08-2016, 04:31 AM)DarkMuse Wrote:

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Couldn't find any help online although I was still able to bring up CLI. Gave up, installed a new pre-built image for virtual box.

If you're solely using Kali on your VM, why not use the "Snapshot" feature In VirtualBox?

You can take a Snapshot (backup) and restore as you please.

I'd like to automate it though.

Surely you can figure out how to do this yourself, no? Create a script that will save a snapshot for you and set cron/launchd/powershell to run it however often you'd like.

I mean if you're using Kali linux you must be a MASTER HACKER... so start acting like one! If you aren't up to the challenge I suppose I could write a script that will do it for you, but where's the fun in that?

(12-09-2016, 08:33 AM)Dyme Wrote:

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(12-08-2016, 04:52 PM)DarkMuse Wrote:

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If you're solely using Kali on your VM, why not use the "Snapshot" feature In VirtualBox?

You can take a Snapshot (backup) and restore as you please.

I'd like to automate it though.

Surely you can figure out how to do this yourself, no? Create a script that will save a snapshot for you and set cron/launchd/powershell to run it however often you'd like.

I mean if you're using Kali linux you must be a MASTER HACKER... so start acting like one! If you aren't up to the challenge I suppose I could write a script that will do it for you, but where's the fun in that?

I mean, if you knew anything about me you'd know that I'm not at all like that and I have explained why I use Kali in the past but thanks for your edgy attempt to dissuade people from learning and utilizing free tools. Obviously, it isn't as easy as you seem to think as nobody has posted any scripts nor were able to find any. So I challenge you, edge lord, to go and write a script to do so.

(12-09-2016, 05:16 PM)DarkMuse Wrote:

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(12-08-2016, 04:52 PM)DarkMuse Wrote:

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I'd like to automate it though.

Surely you can figure out how to do this yourself, no? Create a script that will save a snapshot for you and set cron/launchd/powershell to run it however often you'd like.

I mean if you're using Kali linux you must be a MASTER HACKER... so start acting like one! If you aren't up to the challenge I suppose I could write a script that will do it for you, but where's the fun in that?

I mean, if you knew anything about me you'd know that I'm not at all like that and I have explained why I use Kali in the past but thanks for your edgy attempt to dissuade people from learning and utilizing free tools. Obviously, it isn't as easy as you seem to think as nobody has posted any scripts nor were able to find any. So I challenge you, edge lord, to go and write a script to do so.

Why do think it's so hard? I literally told you how to do it. If you think doing something as simple as this is 'hard', then you must be the shittiest hacker ever lol. Even if you knew nothing about running tasks periodically, you could easily use google to accomplish this in a matter of minutes.

But to prove to you I'm not talking out of my ass, I will show you how to do it because it's so fucking easy. As I described in my earlier post, all three major operating systems have some sort of scheduled task functionality (cron/launchd/task scheduler).

For Windows:
Powershell can be used in windows 8/10 to create scheduled tasks. Previous versions of windows also support scheduled tasks, however you will have to use the "schtasks" command line executable or the "Task Scheduler" GUI in order to create a task. I have verified that the following works on Windows 8.1 with Virtualbox 5.1.10.

Input your VM name where designated and save the following powershell script as "snaptask.ps1":

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The script above will configure a scheduled task to take a snapshot of your VM everyday at 9:00am. This of course can be configured to run at any time and interval you want, but who knows maybe you aren't capable of figuring out how to do that.

To enable the scheduled task, open powershell as administrator and run:

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And that's it! Wow three lines of code shit mayne thats some tuff stuff! If you want me to SPOONFEED you on doing this in Linux/OSX let me know, the process is just as simple. The concept is exactly the same, just replace using Window's "Task Scheduler" with *nix's Cron or OSX's Launchd. But congrats! You got what you wanted - someone to do it for you because you couldn't do it yourself. With that attitude, you will never learn and forever be some lamer on the internet asking for help with his Kali Linux virtual machine. *slow clap*