Making copies of data so that the copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event, or for historical retention.
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15 views
Server Essentials 2012 Offsite Backup [closed]
I have a server running server essentials 2012 at home, a pc running windows 7 pro at the office which is not at home.
How can i get the pc at the office to backup to the server at home?
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votes
1answer
31 views
Backup Solution Requested [closed]
I need to implement a backup solution for our existing work place. The business itself is in the property management domain, resulting in a 95+ remote office workplaces that are tunneled back into ...
-1
votes
0answers
14 views
Some good practices for backing up VPS? [duplicate]
I'm new to running a VPS (just setup LAMP) and I'm doing it for fun/learning. To be honest, if everything on it was nuked it really wouldn't matter much but I want to get into the habit of backing up ...
3
votes
3answers
126 views
What is the best way to copy 9TB of data to multiple external drives, sequentially?
The data is currently stored in a 9TB RAID array, with many users having many files and directories. We'd like to back it up to five 2TB external hard drives, but since we only have one free USB port, ...
0
votes
1answer
24 views
How does append period work and why should I bother about it?
I'm sitting and trying to understand how Appending Period and more importantly WHY should I use it and HOW do I use it for smart and efficient backups.
I've been rummaging through tutorials, checking ...
0
votes
0answers
7 views
GF-F-S backup rotation and monthly media
I've taken over the backup handling of a system that previously was kind of a mess. The strategy is a pretty standard Grandfather-Father-Son rotation using a Hp StorageWorks MSL2024 TapeLibrary with ...
1
vote
2answers
40 views
Which user should cron jobs run as?
Ubuntu server with users
root
www-data
mywebsite1
mywebsite2
There are multiple websites hosted on this server, each with their own user.
Each website has their own cron jobs mostly ...
0
votes
0answers
21 views
windows server backup to any subfolder
I´d like to know when i make full system backup in windows server 2008, how to chose destination folder. By default in local drives backup, it only allows to chose the destination Volume.
Thanks
0
votes
1answer
13 views
PrestaShop backup
I have a PrestaShop installation on my server and I would like to write a batch script which would make backups of custom data every day.
So far I have only found articles which recommend making a ...
0
votes
2answers
80 views
Is rdiff-backup outdated? [closed]
I just find it a bit odd that this powerful tool does not have any bug fix (if there are any) since 2009!
So is it outdated, or its so powerful that there is no need for any update?
(P.S. The ...
-1
votes
0answers
18 views
Newb seeking advise on how to backup network settings before installing virtual box [closed]
Just about to install Virtual box on a wireless home network with Tivo attached. I've backed up all my wireless settings but would also like to backup all my non-wireless network settings to ensure no ...
0
votes
2answers
28 views
Using rsync to copy files from one server to another, pertaining users and permissions
I'm backing up user uploaded files from my primary server to my failover server using rsync.
If I use rsync -a to mirror an /uploads directory from server A to server B, can I expect programs using ...
1
vote
1answer
36 views
CBT Soap Fault from VMWare when runnnig Veeam backup
We frequently see errors like this in our backup jobs:
10/05/2013 12:21:18 :: Cannot use CBT: Soap fault. Error caused by file /vmfs/volumes/781f6afc-ea228458/VDED-CIT-010(Exchange ...
-4
votes
0answers
25 views
How to hot mirror laptop disk onto external usb drive using kernel raid capabilities? [closed]
Please help me materialize my dreamed backup solution.
On my Debian (testing) laptop I'd like to be able to plug in my external USB drive (of identical size as my internal drive) and the system to ...
-1
votes
2answers
43 views
Method to Backup Files/Directories while Maintaining File Structure - Per Year
I need a method that may be able to accomplish what I am trying to do. This is a one time thing, any direction would be appreciated.
I need to archive a massive Windows share but I would like to be ...
0
votes
1answer
16 views
Runing scheduled task in current profile with another user
I have a doubt about Windows scheduler: I created a domain user (backupuser) appositely to launch a batch file that starts the backup. The problem is that the batch is launched in the "backupuser" ...
0
votes
1answer
30 views
How to make full system backup in windows server 2003?
I´d like to know how to full backup windows server 2003 system. I was told that 2003 backup tool cannot make such a thing as opposed to windows server 2008.
Thanks.
-4
votes
0answers
51 views
how to backup entire windows server 2008 R2 without stoping it? [closed]
I´d like to know which is the best way to backup my windows 2008 R2 server all nights and not need to stop any services. This server is working all the time and needs to be available 24/7.
Thanks.
1
vote
2answers
56 views
Best Disaster Recovery Setup for Domain Controller with Additional Services
I'm setting up some new Windows 2012 servers to replace old ones currently on 2003. One of my concerns is to try and have a suitable DR plan to get them back up and running if we have a major failure. ...
1
vote
3answers
64 views
Backups of roaming laptop/private cloud
This seems like a simple 'what tool to use for x' question, but it's more general. I'm rapidly running out of ideas, so I hope to get some insight here.
We have a customer that has employees with ...
1
vote
1answer
26 views
rsnapshot Backup partition disk space
I've been reading the FAQs and man page for rsnapshot and I'm struggling to find out what it would do in the event of the backup partition being full.
Ie. If I set the backups to run hourly, backing ...
-2
votes
0answers
15 views
How best to backup 1-3 os x computers using time machine to a Raid to an offsite backup? [closed]
I need to setup a proper backup system for my macs. I had just been keeping all my client work on my local hard drive and then just used Time Machine to back that up to an external USB drive. A single ...
0
votes
1answer
55 views
How to dump remote database without using mysqlDump
I have a similar problem from this question How to dump remote database without mysqldump?
How ever when I run
ssh -f L 3306:localhost:3306 user@remoteserver -N
I am receive the following error
...
0
votes
2answers
83 views
Simple EC2 offline backup?
Scenario: A frustrated employee deletes all data from an AWS account.
Valuable data: EBS volume of an EC2 machine based on Amazon's Linux AMI.
What is a simple offline backup solution for the data? ...
0
votes
1answer
27 views
Windows backup error after 20 days
I have a server running 2008R2 and it also has SQL 2008 running on it. There are 8 HDD set up in RAID1 pairs.
Windows backup is set to backup the C (OS) drive and the 2 drives I have the SQL logs ...
0
votes
0answers
34 views
Amanda Backup Tape strategy [closed]
Oi!
I'm trying to configure a weekly backup rotation on a 2TB disk with a backup set of about 1.2TB. I'm very confused on how to use the tapelength / tapecycle / dumpcycle in a way that it will use ...
0
votes
1answer
30 views
Amanda backup with SSH fails both client and localhost
I'm trying to get Amanda working with SSH auth.
After I installed it on a server and did a basic configuration with harddisk as tape, I got it up and running, no client support though. But I did get ...
0
votes
1answer
20 views
Is there any way to backup the content of business google app presence to local storage?
I'm looking for a centrally administered automatic archival mechanism (product or service) for a google-docs-for-business instance. Ideally it would:
allow self-service restoration (i.e., a user ...
0
votes
2answers
36 views
Windows Azure Blob Storage Data Migration
I would like to back up the files I currently have in Azure Blob Storage and move them elsewhere. The problem is that pulling them one by one would take me several weeks, even within the same ...
4
votes
1answer
84 views
Windows Server 2012 - Azure Online Backup Status?
What is the current status of Windows Server 2012 Online Backup. All of the documentation provides a start point of Windows Azure Online Backup and tells you to download a software agent.. But at this ...
0
votes
0answers
21 views
Performing an rsync before initial rdiff-backup
I want to set up standard rdiff-backup to remote server. However the data is very big for the capacity of internet connection, so I have transferred them on physical media. Than I synchronized the ...
1
vote
2answers
38 views
Using Rsync to backup a Windows Share
I have a Windows 7 box that I want to back up to an Ubuntu machine.
I have mounted a Windows share on the Ubuntu box (using CIFS/Samba), and I want to use a cron job to rsync what's on the mounted ...
1
vote
0answers
12 views
IBM Tivoli Reclaim vs Update
What is the difference between TSM reclaim vs update? I have accidentally run the reclaim command on my offsite pool? Is it fine to run the reclaim command on offsite pool or is there a bad impact by ...
0
votes
1answer
28 views
Daemon to create hardlinks on Linux file server which finds identical files
I have a Linux server where I only store new files or rename directories and never edit files.
It contains backups from other Linux servers.
Due to certain circumstances there are quite some ...
1
vote
3answers
101 views
Automated nightly backup of 1TB drive on Ubuntu Server
How you would set up an automated nightly backup for the whole disk (boot and data partition) running Ubuntu Server?
I have a 1TB drive (current usage 200GB) and I want to have daily clone of this ...
0
votes
2answers
33 views
How planing about backup log files in Linux?
In my company, we have lots of applications running in lots of different servers.
These applications generates lots of logs, which sometimes the developers forgot to compress this logs, this way ...
0
votes
1answer
12 views
Is there a way to list files that can be recovered from rdiff-backup
I am testing rdiff-backup as a possible backup solution. There is one thing i cant find how to do and was wonder if it is possible.
If I am backing up directories on a server. e.g. ...
0
votes
1answer
28 views
How to perform remote backups on a USB external drive?
I have a server hosting files (~300 Gb) and I need to perform a full backup every week on an exernal USB drive. People without good IT knowledge need to be able to do it too, so it has to be a very ...
-1
votes
0answers
32 views
server essentials 2012 monitor temp and crashplan [closed]
is there any way to monitor the temps on server essentials 2012?
also is there something like crashplan that will work on it. I have the server at my house and i would like to back up my office ...
-2
votes
1answer
32 views
Connecting a usb external drive in NFS to a different server [closed]
I have two unix CentOS servers in the same farm. One of them has an usb HD connected. I would like to access the same usb HD from the second server (I want to be able to write directly to that HD). ...
-1
votes
2answers
53 views
Cron to do a backup and automatically send it to dropbox [closed]
Is there a way to send backups to Dropbox (tar & send)?
I bought a plan there and was thinking to save some money dropping Amazon S3 (that I'm using for backups). I'll have to manually delete old ...
1
vote
2answers
59 views
Bare-metal recovery on dissimilar hardware [Win/Linux]? [closed]
I'm planning a disaster recovery for our servers, and have been looking at this solution. I know of Clonezilla, but it does not entirely comply to the "different hardware" part.
I could still ...
0
votes
0answers
14 views
restore folder with rdiff-backup
I have a server in Ubuntu that contain all my backups of other server.
Yesterday a user deleted a folder from a server.
Tonight my backuop has copied the file from that file and paste to my server and ...
0
votes
0answers
26 views
Support among Backup Solutions [closed]
Not sure if this should go under Meta or a different area, but I was wondering if I could get input on other user's support calls with their backup vendor.
Right now we're looking at changing ...
1
vote
1answer
44 views
Can ZFS resilvering be used effectively for backing up to an external drive?
Suppose I currently use rsync to back up an internal drive periodically to an external drive. The external drive is usually stored offsite but is periodically brought over and plugged in via USB and ...
3
votes
1answer
68 views
Can I get tar to not use the filesystem cache when reading files?
We have a cronned job on a production web server that requires tarring up files from across the filesystem. It runs for about 105 minutes, and during that time, Apache starts swapping because all ...
0
votes
1answer
27 views
Cpanel backup freezing in “fixing mail permission” state
My restoring action stops when it gets to "fixing mail permission" part of restoring Cpanle backup.
Any Help?
1
vote
2answers
45 views
rsync --exclude not excluding
I'm using rsync on an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server with the following script to back up all of /, however, whenever I run the script (as root), the directory /backup is included, when it should be ...
0
votes
3answers
87 views
What's the best way to have a backup image of system disk?
Under windows system I'm used to create an image of HD with driveImageXML.
What's the best approach to have an Image of the hard-drive containing the OS, with Ubuntu Server?
I'd like to have a ...
0
votes
0answers
24 views
Command to restore CentOS VPS to the new purchased CenOS machine (VPS or dedicated server)
I have a VPS backup. I have moved to a dedicated server.
The hosting provider has given me a tar.gz backup.
They have also setup a CentOS 5 that has initial settings. Really initial (I mean only ...
