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Is it a good idea to back up SQL database to an External USB Hard Drive?
I will be installing a Database System on an Offshore Oil Platform (rack Servers). They have very limited hardware and space therefore sending up a backup infrastructure is not possible. Sending ...
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Backing up and restoring remote servers
I have backup exec 2010 R2. Going to be upgrading to 2012 here in the next day or two. I have several servers onsite and 4 remote servers. To backup the 4 remote servers to the tape library device ...
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Backing up VHD's
I have the following setup on my laptop:
No native OS
4 VHD's running Win7 Ultimate x64
Each VHD is added to my boot record, so I can choose which VHD I am booting into on startup.
What I am ...
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How to encrypt a small folder and copy that to Google Drive or DropBox?
Right now I use the following to back up a small project folder to a USB Flash drive:
alias a='alias'
a dateseq='date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"'
a backup_proj='cp -a ~/code/MyProj ...
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Do I need to use apply-log with innobackupex
I'm using innobackupex to backup my databases like this:
usr/local/bin/innobackupex --user=bkpuser --password='example' --rsync \
--no-timestamp /pathtobackup 2> /pathtobackup/innobackupex.log
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Online backup for NAS [closed]
I'm searching for an online backup solution for NAS.
Currently I have simple home computer with 1 TB hard drive backed up by service Carbonite.
The problem is Carbonite became very and very slow ...
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Backing up VPS with cPanel/WHM
I am backing up my VPS with duplicity, the directories that are being backed up are /home and /var/backup (mysql dump)
Inside the home folder there are a few cpanel related folders should I back ...
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Duplicity --exclude /home/virtfs/ doesn't work
I am backing up my VPS's /home with duplicity to Amazon S3.
I have excluded /home/virtfs as it produced errors the first time I ran the script.
The second time I ran the script I excluded ...
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How do you apply development practices like version control, testing and continuous integration/deployment to system administration?
Imagine you're going to manage a number of servers with a number of different services that's used by a number of people. Now say you want to reconfigure or replace some software on one of those ...
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16tb raid6 + lvm, to partition or not to partition?
So I have a 16tb raid6 on one of a new batch of machines I am setting up. I will be using LVM on top of this and am wondering if there are any compelling reasons to break the raid up into partitions ...
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Cloud Backup provider that uses rsync [closed]
I'm looking for a cloud backup provider that uses rsync. I have used rsync.net for many years but their pricing model isn't keeping up with the rest of the market and I'm looking at several tens of ...
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plesk 10.4.4 scheduled backup works, but not showing in the scheduled tasks
I have a big headache with plesk since last update. Firstly it refused to make proper backups, then after minor updates it started to do properly those backups, but file size decreased from ~140mb to ...
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Online Server Backup Solutions [closed]
We have been running a dedicated server in the US for a while acting as a remote backup. We are now looking for a cheaper alternative and was wondering if anyone knew of any services which provide ...
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How do I determine if a backup occurred on my Windows 2003 server?
I'm having to do sys admin work, without the training. (Long story.) We've got a tape drive in one of our Windows 2003 R2 servers. The former sys admin setup a backup job in the Windows Backup and ...
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RAID 1 on 2 external HDDs [migrated]
I have an Ubuntu 12.04 server based on my old laptop. It's HDD (160 GB) is too small for the file storage I need, so I'd like to attach a couple of external HDDs to it (through USB ports). The data ...
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Amanda: selfcheck fail, client times out
I'm testing an Amanda install on an ubuntu 10.04 server as a backup server for primarily OS X 10.6 clients.
The server has been setup and has successfully run backups on specific local directories ...
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Is there something like “stateful” backups?
I work in bioinformatics and we store a lot of very large files which never change - plant genomes, genomic reads etc. We constantly receive new data of this type and the size of our backups is ...
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What happens to a backup job, if it is scheduled and some prompt occurs?
For years we've backed up our system, using a tape drive on one of our Windows 2003 R2 servers. And we've done this manually. Whenever we do this, we'll put the tape into the drive, and get into the ...
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Use WinSCP or similar to copy files from Linux to Windows
I can use WinSCP GUI just fine to copy a folder from a Linux server locally to a Windows server for backup, using the "updated files/folders only" option (sort of an rsync).
I'd like to use WinSCP's ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Backup Logon Failure
I am trying to create a scheduled backup on a Server 2008 R2 box (using the built-in Windows Server Backup UI). Whenever I run a backup manually (image or otherwise), it works perfectly. When I try to ...
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Is it a bad idea to do an OVF Export of a VM with snapshot data?
I'm currently using a VM running on ESXi 5.0 to dry-run installation procedures for a software product. We're trying a whole different bunch of things, so I'm making extensive use of snapshots to save ...
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Ubuntu server backup in pendrive? [closed]
I'm currently facing the making of our Backup Plan, and I was wondering what's the risk of backing up my ubuntu server in a pendrive instead of DVDs or CDs (physical mediums).
The server is used in ...
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What system should be used to track and ensure accountability for backups & tapes?
We run a small business network with a few Windows servers and Backup Exec + an LTO4 tape library to back them all up. We use a yearly, monthly, weekly rota, with tapes going off-site. I should also ...
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What are the best practices to back up your production environment for a web app?
I am running 2 boxes on hetzner and would like to figure out the best way to back up the
- app
- data
- live environment
I understand that for the app and data parts, its very specific to my web ...
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Rackspace cloud sites to local server backup
I use rackspace cloud sites and don't have accsess to SSH or RSYNC on their servers, but I do access to SSHFS.
I would like to be able to backup my cloud site to my local Ubuntu server, which has ...
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Hard disk lifespan [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Does an unplugged hard drive used for data archival deteriorate?
in your honest opinion how long can a sealed hard drive last on the shelf unused? I mean, fully write ...
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How to mirror server with 150 GB of data
I have a linux server whic is used as web/file/svn/sql server. It is accessed by 100 machines for storing their code files on this server(svn/code/mysql).
The OS is on a 80 GB HDD. The data is on ...
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Backing up my GPO's
If I wanted to backup everything related to all my GPO's - permissions, links for the domain (how they are linked to my OU's etc), and all the GPO's themselves, how would I go about doing that.
I ...
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Why is not DPM 2012 treating my tapes as free even if they should be?
I have a DPM 2012 server (but I've heard the same behaviour happens with DPM 2010) I'm using to backup my environment; it's connected to a single tape drive (no library), so tape rotation is manual.
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smbd won't start or stop when user is elevated to root by SUID bit
Under Ubuntu 12.04, I've written the following C program to help me shut down my server's apache2 and samba services while I run automated backups. Notice that in the Makefile I'm setting the SUID bit ...
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VM Backups - Externalizing extra large VMware backups
I have a couple of VMware ESXi hosts with a couple of VMs on each hosts. The total amount of size of all these VMs are in the order of the TBs.
I want to make backups of these VMs. But here is not ...
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Symantec Backup Exec can't see network shares
I have a CentOS 6 host with a NFS export where I have stored some virtual machine backups.
Now I want those backups to tape for archival. I have mounted the share to a drive letter under Windows 2003 ...
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Create a duplicate of my server
I have a VPS running Debian with Plesk which I use to host some of mine and client's websites.
I'd like to know what's the best way to create a backup of the server so if anything happens to the main ...
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Backup Exec - How does it see Overwriteable media?
I have a Backup to Disk folder (on a USB Drive) which does a full backup Monday through Saturday, inclusive. It runs at 23:00 each day, but the drive is only large enough to fit 5 backups. (Each ...
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Veritas netbackup 7.1 nbazd daemon wont start
Im new working with Veritas Netbackup 7.1. It is installed in a server with Solaris 10. Im planning to use the NBAC. The problem that I have is that the nbazd daemon dont start. If I go to Activity ...
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Dealing with “The semaphore timeout period has expired” errors
We use Appassure Replay at work and we've got a server that is failing to transfer snapshots of its largest volume (90GiB with 27.5GiB free). The error I'm receiving is:
Transfer failed on volume: G: ...
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Can a Sql Server standard edition backup be restored to web edition
If I have two instances of Sql Server 2008 R2. One is standard edition, one is web edition.
If I take a backup of a database from the standard instance can I restore it to the web edition instance?
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Consistency of virtual machine backups using ghettoVCB
I have a ESXi host with both Windows and CentOS virtual machines running.
A couple of them are running SQL Databases (MSSQL and MySQL).
I am trying to setup a backup strategy using the ghettoVCB ...
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Definition of minimal “onsite backup”
I've learned about a hosting provider who's definition of "onsite backup" includes "snapshots of the SAN storage stored on the same SAN and the same RAID 50 array".
Does this sound right to anyone? I ...
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Easiest to use backup software for live linux server [closed]
I need a backup software that is capable of:
doing a full HDD image (from live server, if that's possible at all?)or just copy everything except /dev, /tmp, etc
updates the backup incremental just ...
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Free backup software with support for Shadow Copy and Incremental backup [closed]
I'm looking for a robust backup software solution that is:
Free
Robust, proven solution
Supports shadow copy (windows)
Supports incremental backup and restore
Supports restore of individual files
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Backup Exec - Differential Backups and Overwriting
I have a setup for a customer whereby a full backup is conducted on a Friday - then Monday through to Thur, differentials are carried out. Now, there is a single media set for these two jobs (I ...
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Backup Exec - Overwrite policy on DC/FileSrv
Hopefully some people here have some experience with BE 2010! Essentially we have a 1.8TB drive which is large enough to store 5 full backups - but we backup from Mon to Sat at 23:00 so 6 backups a ...
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Create a full replica of web server using different hosting company, is it logical?
Is it logical to create a full replica of our webserver, just on a less powerful machine, using other hosting provider ( just because its cheaper ). The idea is to have a plan B, in case main server ...
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Best way to backup MySQL database server running in Hyper-V
We are running a production MySQL v5.5 database server on a Windows 2008 R2 VM. We are currently just performing a daily mysqldump of the database, and then backing those up. Our backup solution ...
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Backup solution for road warriors
My users are mostly road warriors who work on their Windows laptops. I would like to have a backup solution that would copy data to a corporate server over VPN. Could is absolutely out of question. It ...
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SQL Server 2008 - Service account for backups
I am setting up a backup software to backup all the databases on my MS SQL Server 2008.
I want to configure a service account with administrator rights on the database. The service account have ...
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How to restore Windows 2003 using a system backup? Didn't work for me
I have had an easy time testing system restores with ASR NTBackups.
I wanted to try what I thought was an alternate approach provided by windows 2003 for full system restores. Using NTBackup, I made ...
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sudoers not working for tar command
I want to disable the requirement of sudo or running as root for a bash script that does backups with tar.
I added this line to my sudoers file
username ALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/tar
However after I ...
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MS SQL 2008 - Restoring a Differential backup [closed]
I do backups of every single database on an MS SQL server 2008.
A full once every 2 weeks, and between fulls, I do a differential every day.
For the backups, everything is fine. But I would like to ...
