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(HDD) backup solution in a space-constrained environment
I am looking for a backup software (FOSS, running on Linux) which is able to back up about 1 TiB of data in mostly big files (smallest around 3 MiB, largest around 4 GiB) to a hard disk drive.
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Where can I look for backup script? [migrated]
I want find out where the backup script of a Fedora 8 server is. I haven't found it so far ( my Linux knowledge is very spare). I looked with crontab -l and I only can find a tempdelete.pl. Than I ...
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amazon AWS backup solution provider [closed]
I'm looking for a backup solution provider for amazon AWS cloud. In particular, automating RDS & S3 backups.
I found all kind of automatic scripts and software, however, I'm looking for a ...
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Any need to make backup of data on Amazon S3?
I'm hosting 200 GB of product images at S3 (this is my primary file host).
Do I need to back that data up somewhere else, or is S3 safe as it is?
I have been experimenting with mounting the S3 ...
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SQL Server 2008, switching to simple recovery mode [migrated]
Currently our transaction log is 50 GB; impressive huh?
I want to switch to simple recovery mode and remove the transaction log entirely.
Do I need to stop any user activity and detach the database. ...
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Is it a good idea to compress a MS SQL database backup?
Quick question! I heard that we should never shrink our databases. However, does the same rules apply to compressing our SQL backup?
Thanks
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Backing up HyperV VMs on a dedicated server
I have a dedicated server, and just started installing some VMs on to the box using HyperV. I am currently backing up the VMs using a HyperV backup tool, which seems to work quite well, and then the ...
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How to Purge old EBS backups?
Anyone knows of a good way to automatically purge old EBS snapshots?
We have a cron script backing up the whole instance from inside, via EC2 API snapshots, but the snapshots tend to accumulate.
I ...
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how to properly compare the same two large files on two different servers byte for byte?
So I have two servers with the same 10gb gzip file on each.
On one server it unzips fine. On the other there are crc errors. The file sizes are the exact same.
the systems are exactly the same ...
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Optimal RAID setup for 2 low-workload modelling servers?
My team at work uses a pair of servers each with a 2.7TB RAID 10 array composed of 8x 750GB hard drives. They are set up in different physical locations; one is kept purely as a disaster recovery / ...
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Mirroring an entire machine
What's the most appropriate way to constantly mirror all the settings and data from one Linux machine to another? I have a critical server, which I'd like to have a "hot spare" available for in case ...
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MSSQL 2008 R2 Restore VSS
We have a Windows 2008 R2 server which has 2 disks of which one is used as a backup disk for Windows Backup with VSS enabled. We also have MSSQL 2008 R2 running on this server.
If I want to restore a ...
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clone server onto remote storage
how can i clone a server onto a remote drive?
I would like to make an identical backup of my CentOS 6 64bit server onto a remote hdd.
I am going to be installing a raid card into the sever causing ...
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btrfs-enabled backup solution
With btrfs hitting production in Oracle EL 14th this month (together with working fsck and scrubbing from Linux 3.2) I was thinking of redesigning my current backup solution to utilise it. Note that ...
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CentOS Hot Backup
We have dedicated CentOS machine running a customer management service, in a few days development will cease and we would like to take a complete backup of the hard-disks. The server has 2 500GB ...
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Main server fails and I want my backup server to take over
In a situation in which my primary server fails.I don't want my application to go down but the application to start fetching information form a backup server which is my Pc(Located someplace else) ...
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Volume retention for bacula
Let's say I want to use ONE tape a week for incremental. I would alternate two tapes per month so that a tape gets used every other week. I'll run a FULL every Saturday morning at 12:01am.
If I run ...
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Is the size of this system state backup normal
I administer a small network, 2 Windows 2003 servers with around 30 users + Exchange. The system state backup generates a 28 GB file. Is this normal? I think it's too big for just 30 users + 30 ...
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Backup and replication Veeam
I'd like to know does Veam Backup and Replication 5.0.2.224 support all versions ESXi.
I'd more appreciate if someone tell's me the way of how to find that kind of information.
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Storix Backup Size incorrect when using Volume Groups
When backing up a single volume group (e.g. Vol Group 00) containing about 400 GB of data, Storix Backup Administrator reports that it is backing up 1.5 TB which is incorrect. All unnecessary ...
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Symantec Backup Exec 2010 not compressing data anymore
I am using Symantec Backup Exec 2010 in conjunction with an HP Storagewors 2024 tape library system. It used to compress the data well. As we are using 400/800gb tapes. For awhile now it is just ...
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Bluescreen during Fileshare Backup - Bughcheck 0x40 Windows Server 2008 R2
I have a big problem with a Backup Server. During a file share backup i get a bluescreen.
Here is the attached dumpfile (i cannot work with it:( i tried the debug tools but i don't understand it)
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Robocopy falsely marks files as newer
I have two NTFS formatted drives on different machines and I do a robocopy mirror between them like this:
robocopy "D:\My Documents" "X:\Backup\My Documents" /MIR /V /NP /XD .* /XO /XA:SHTO /FAT /Z ...
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Best Server (Linux/Windows) Software for Backups While Server is handling content
We're using ARECA (http://www.areca-backup.org/) for backups of our Windows & Linux Servers. The biggest problem we have experienced is that once backup starts on one of our Linux Virtual Machine ...
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Moving usb mounts ubuntu 10.10
I use a usb 1Tb hard driver for backups. I have three of them and I have one one site (two weeks old) for the next backup, one off site (one week old), and one in the system (current back drive). I ...
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Can Windows Server 2008 R2 do backups to remote locations?
I have a WS2008 R2 box that does local backups of all my PCs, databases, etc. I do replication to a few drives. I want to be able to backup across the network, offsite, to say a drive at my office ...
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Linux LTO-4/5 Drive Encryption
For a number of reasons I have been trying to find a way to encrypt my backup tapes. I'm currently running Bacula for my backups and it's support for Drive based encryption is I have to call a script ...
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How much space does inc and diff backups take? Acronis Adv. Server 2011
Looking to make a full backup weekly of a 2008 R2 server which has the OS + a 6TB hard drive with install files, Customer bills, and a couple of other things saved on it/to it.
After that, do ...
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Two servers, backup on storage [closed]
I have two servers, and I need to backup data on storage. Data should be synchronized. I'm looking for best hardware and software solution for my problem.
Thanks a lot
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Efficient plan for backing up EC2 instance, EBS volumes and RDS DBs
I have an EBS-based EC2 instance (ebs_vol_1) which mounts and extra EBS volume (ebs_vol_2), and DB in RDS.
Is tacking a snapshot of ebs_vol_1 & ebs_vol_2, enough for preventing data-loss? Is ...
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MySQL Backup Without Overwriting New Rows
Let's say I backup a database like this:
mysqldump -u usrname -p pass dbname > dbbackup.sql
Then I delete a pile of rows from dbname.
Then new rows are inserted into dbname. However, I ...
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IMAP and server data loss: what happens? [migrated]
I know that when using IMAP, changes made locally in your email client(s) are reflected onto the server, and vice versa. So if you delete an email in your email provider's webmail, it'll no longer ...
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Backup to track fraud on Dedicated Server running Apache and MySQL
Background:
i am running a Dedicated Server with WHM/cPanel and i would like to know what to backup. My old VPS was hacked into using a security vulnerability in TimThumb and i was unable to track ...
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SQL Server backup strategy consequences
In simple terms, I need point-in-time restore between full backups - what are the consequences in the following plan - the database is in full recovery mode:
1:00 AM Transaction Log Backup (no ...
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MSSQL Reduce Backup/Transaction Log Size Retaining Point-In-Time Restore
Current major problem with backup sizes - I have been through many questions but am finding conflicting scenarios. I have multiple databases with the same problem but using one as an example, here are ...
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Clarify volume retention for me?
I'm using Bacula but this would pertain to any backup solution.
I'm using LTO5 tapes (1.5TB/3TB), but my data is nowhere near that capacity for the time being. So if I set the retention for my ...
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Oracle 11g production database copy to USB drive [migrated]
What is the correct commands for backing up a production Oracle 11g database (while still running) to an external USB drive or different directory.
I am new to Oracle and but have experience with SQL ...
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The user cannot start a task on Windows Server 2008 R2
Why would a user who is a member of the 'backup operator' group be unable to run a task? It simply does not start - there is no error that I can find. I changed the user of the Windows Server Backup ...
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What is the fastest and safest way to backup data on a second harddrive without erasing? [closed]
I have two harddisks.
HD1: 80 GB
HD2: 1000 GB
On both Harddisks there is data being stored.
I want to move all data from HD1 to HD2 while keeping the previous data in HD2.
So now it is
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mysql database daily backup on ubuntu server
I use crontab -e
in ubuntu server for running a backup.sh file every night at 02:00 AM. I wrote: 00 02 * * * root /home/backup.sh
Then /etc/init.d/cron restart
When do crontab -l it shows:00 02 * * * ...
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recover a single mysql database on a busy master-slave replicated system [migrated]
Looking for a strategy or tool to deal with recovering a single database to a point-in-time in a busy replicated system.
I have 12 databases running on 2 MySQL 5.0.77 servers in master-slave ...
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Using mongodb tools (mongodump, mongorestore) from another machine
I have a mongodb server (A) and a http server (B). I would like to run mongodump and mongorestore commands on http server (B) to backup data on server B. But these tools comes with mongodb ...
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Clean copy of LDIF user data without Gosa schema in openldap ldap software
I have two ldap, one full of users, with gosa open source project specific schema (https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa), and one which is empty, without all of these schema.
I want to make a clean copy ...
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LTO(4) Tape Physical Storage
We have moved to an LTO(4) tape backup system. It works great and now we have a stack of physical tapes lying around that need to be stored and ultimately secured. I was curious what options exist ...
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If backing up HyperV host, should I backup the guests too?
I do regular backups of my HyperV host system, including the folders with the hyper v guests.
Should I also do a backup of the guests separately (e.g. from within the guest OS itself)?
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Symantec CPS and Vivisimo Log Files?
I'm running Symantec Backup Exec CPS 2010 (13.0.420.3302) and under
C:\Program Files\Symantec\Continuous Protection Server\Vivisimo\data\search-collections\255\PANTHER\crawl1
are these huges ...
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Can the production db server be in our intranet domain?
I've got someone setting up a "backup-relay" server on our intranet. It will transfer our local backups off-site, and transfer backups of our production db (which is off-site) back home. These are ...
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Assistance with a backup solution.
I am currently needing to create a backup of something on my server. I zip the entire folder and it's about 1.5gb big...it has to be backed up every hour....
Alright so the size of the backup is ...
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Is backing up to a NAS over private fibre link better than tape?
I have recently taken over the responsibility of a small business network of 35 users. I am a bit green on backup strategies and am considering my options.
We currently backup our SBS Server to tape ...
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Git-style incremental backup with rsync
I'm trying to setup a backup script on Ubuntu. Every day I want to copy my local source directory to a backup directory on a remote server uniquely named with the date. (e.g., backup-jan1/, ...
