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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 ...
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Mirroring iSCSI target to slower drive, asynchronous RAID or block-level replication?

I'm planning on setting up a test iSCSI export on my NAS which will be used by a KVM virtualisation host to store all guest volumes and data. My NAS box is a self-build running CentOS. The device ...
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Bacula multi client disk backup with volume rotation

I am planning an enterprise-level network backup solution with the following requirements/restrictions: Local and remote servers with heterogenous operating systems (Linux,Windows) Backup policy ...
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Centos VPS server backup

I have a quick question. I would like to create a backup of my entire centos VPS, including mysql. Would this work? tar -zcvpf /backup/testbackup.tar.gz --directory / Can I restore a tar backup by ...
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How do you backup 40+ Centos5.5 servers?

We are embarrassed to ask this question. Apologies for our lack of UNIX expertise. We have inherited 40+ centos 5.5 servers, and don't know how to back them up. We need low level clone type images so ...
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Setting up logging for a remote backup script

So I wrote up a short script that I am planning to run via a cron job daily to package up my site files and send them to a remote location. I also plan to incorporate DB dumps, but I have not gotten ...
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Combat server downtime by duplicating server and re-routing when main server is down [closed]

I have a CentOS server which at times either crashes or gets attacked with DDOS. At the moment I have an off site backup which is filled up with 1.7TB of data. I'm currently paying as much for the ...
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Looking to list all files/dirs ignored by rsyncs exclude file

I have around 7 or 8 servers, which I rsync down to my local LAN each night. All of these rsync jobs use a common excludes.txt, to filter out files or directories I dont want mirroring. Now, the ...
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Centos 5 Full backup

so I have my dedicated server that is set to expire tomorrow. What I need to do is a full backup of everything, with the OS and everything on it. And when I say full backup, I mean a backup that can ...
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Backup HDD data using SystemRescueCd

Today my V-Server stuck on the boot, the datacenter told me that there is a ton of problems with the system, and they can't fix the problem, I need to backup my data and re-install a fresh system. OS ...
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Server Data Transfer to New Server

I am getting a server in a different location from where the current one is and getting rid of the current one. I am needing to find a way to seamlessly transfer the following: User's directories ...
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fastest way to backup webserver files and mysql db and automate

I would like to setup a cron job for to backup all my web server files to a compressed file and also my MYSQL db. I have full acces to my server as it is a VPS. I am a noob at linux and could really ...
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Creating Xen backups

I'm looking for a way to create Xen (HVM) backups, using LVM. I know xm save but that is a) inefficient space wise, b) the VM will shut down. I found rsnapshot which is able to create an LVM snapshot, ...
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Backup your unix server via shell access

I am looking to backup my dedicated unix server which is running Parallels Plesk Panel v10.4.4_build1013111102.18 os_CentOS 6. The server has Plesk installed but there are some limitations to it's ...
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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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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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Centos Web Server Backup to home

I currently have a web server with Centos running Apache and MySQL. I am looking for a simple way I can backup certain files back to my house where I have a exernal HDD. I currently have 4 HDD's in ...
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Looking for suitable backup solution Mac OS X to offsite Centos 6 server 1TB of working data

I'll start by saying what we have in place currently: On site file server (Mac OS X Server) that is used by GFX designers and they have a working 1TB of data. Offsite server with 2TB available ...
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Most prudent method of creating a QA CentOS server?

I'm trying to create a physically separate QA server of an existing install of CentOS, which has various software installed. It also has several files and configurations that I need to preserve. ...
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Cron: Backing up log, config, website files as non-root user via SSH / Rsync

I'm brainstorming ways that I can begin backing up my production servers' log files, config files, website data, mysql databases, etc.... as a non-root user to a separate off-site location. The ...
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Backing up on a second vps?

My hosting provider does not offer a free backup and I'm not going to pay for it. I have 2 centos 5 64 bit vps, I'm working on 1 of them, I'm not using the 2nd one. I don't have a cpanel nor ftp. I ...
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Rsync Permissions Problem from One Server to Another - Mkdir Permission denied (13)

I am trying to use rsync to copy a backup folder on a local machine to another machine daily (in case of data loss or accidental deletion). This runs as a cronjob. I just the command rsync -av ...
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Quick and Easy Backup of Remote Server?

I'm switching from a slower remote server to a faster one. (In a nutshell.) Everything seems to have been migrated properly, but just incase some things didn't get transferred properly, I'd like to ...
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Daily incremental backup + weekly full backup

I have a server with CentOS 5.6, with SVN on it and I would like to take incremental backups of the changes on a daily basis while I take a full backup on a weekly basis. I need to back this up on an ...
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How come /bin/rm -rf /backups/hourly.5/ takes forever on a backup server?

They're simply hardlinks so the files shouldn't actually even be deleted. What options do I have? It even seems to take quite some load. I don't see how deleting 30.000 hard-links should take more ...
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What filesystem should I use for backuppc on CentOS/Debian and lots and lots (200k) of small hardcopied files?

The reason I ask is that I use rsnapshot for backups with a /backups separate raid1 ext3 back-up disk. Unfortunately removing back-ups (happens every 4 hours) takes up to a full hour! rm -rf ...
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What Folders Should I Not Backup on CentOS?

I'm using rsnapshot to start backing up a CentOS 5.5 install and I need a list of folders that I should probably exclude from the backups. The server is primarily a LAMP web server, and will be ...
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What is the best method of backing up a VPS?

Let's say that I have 50GB of off site storage and my VPS has a hard drive of 30GB. If I wanted to back-up my entire VPS (take note that cPanel/WHM is installed) every 24 hours, how would I do so and ...
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Which Distributed File System as a backend for Cloud Computing? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Which Distributed File System as a backend for Cloud Computing? I have a cloud running on CentOS 5.5 with Eucalyptus2 loaded.The thing is can we integrate some other ...
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How do I back-up a MySQL database from the command-line in CentOS?

I need to make a back-up of a database on CentOS 5.5, running MySQL server from the command line. Basically I need to export everything in it.
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Backup, Migrate or Clone Failing CentOS 4 (LVM)

I've been running a BlueQuartz CentOS 4 system (Nuonce.net distro) for a few years now and although the hard drive (Deskstar) has always been a bit noisy, on a few recent occasions I've heard it ...
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How to Approach CentOS Back Up on GoDaddy Dedicated Hosting

Does anyone have any experience with backing up a dedicated server at GoDaddy or anywhere else? I have a CentOS system. I recently made a big newbie mistake working on linux and toasted my server. ...
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Disable deleting of files within a folder on CentOS

I have an email system (using modified round cube) on a web server running CentOS and want to disable deleting of any emails. I have done this within the round cube software however this will not ...
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USB drive only for Linux backups: To partition or not to partition?

I have a 2TB USB drive plugged into CentOS 5.5 that will be formatted with ext3 and will only be used for file-level backups. I've always partitioned my drives but a while ago when I had setup Amazon ...
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Why can my cron job not find a specific command?

I am using duplicity to create nightly backups of my server over FTP. I wrote a script that does both a local and remote backup and logs the output results. When I run this script as the root user, ...
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Automated incremental backups from Plesk on Centos to Amazon S3

I've done a far bit of research on this via Google and there seems to be quite a few ways of possibly doing this. I'm looking to incrementally backup new and updated files in two directories on my ...
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How to backup a full Centos Server?

I switched a few weeks ago from a dedicated server to a VPS. Now that everything is working well on the VPS I would like to shutdown the dedicated server and close my account with the hosting company. ...
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Backup all Linux Server

I have installed in a CentOS server all stuffs there I need for my work. Apache, PHP, MySql, Red5 and other stuffs, but now I need migrate to other server with the same CentOS. How can I copy all my ...
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How to create running server images Linux?

We have CentOS and Fedora server running on old hardware. We got new Dell servers. We are looking any open source tool which can take backups and restore all the partition as it is, with out ...
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Where do Plesk 3.5 store backups on CentOS 5.3

I have a virtual server running on Media Temple that is currently offline due to exceeded disk space. The exceeded disk space is most likely caused by too many backups stored on the server. Plesk is ...
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Backup Xen domU machines

This is similar to my last question except that my last question included "while running" in the title. I've since learned that this isn't exactly possible. Here is my understanding of the options ...
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Backup Xen domU machines while running

The host machine is running CentOS 5.3 and using LVM to create Logical Volumes (LVs) and to allow live snapshots to be taken of those LVs. My thought was to store all of the image files for the Xen ...
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Backup Xen domU machines while running

The host machine is running CentOS 5.3 and using LVM to create Logical Volumes (LVs) and to allow live snapshots to be taken of those LVs. My thought was to store all of the image files for the Xen ...
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How to download a file from NAS Storage?

I backup my site's database with NAS storage, but now that I need to get some of the files, I realize I don't know how to download them to my desktop. Is there a way to download from FTP or straight ...
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Bidirectional Syncing of a directory on CentOS between two servers

We're getting ready to light up another data center and we have a local administrative machine that scripts aim backups at. We'd like the backup directory on that machine to bidirectionally sync with ...