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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 ...
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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 ...
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Differential backup missing moved folders (flawed archive attribute logic)
Recently I've discovered that my backup system it flawed: there are situation where various files/folders are missed.
I do my backup from local disk to a network NAS.
I use Cobian backup, and I have ...
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How to make differential backup without using archive attribute? [closed]
Plain and simple: I need to make differential backup of my files without using the typical file attribute logic.
Possibly with a free software.
So the software I need should rely on it's own indexing ...
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Server Backup Options? [closed]
I currently have a dedicated server running Apache (I can supply more specs if needed), but I'm trying to setup automatic full backups to run every night. Preferably I'd like to be able to put them on ...
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rsync --inplace not reading target file?
I'm trying to optimize the daily backup of a LVM snapshot of a large MySQL database. It works quite ok when I just cp the files (local RAID to other local RAID), with an average speed of ~100MB/s. But ...
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Why keep full and incremental backups in different pools?
I have just started using Bacula and it is great, one tutorial I read recommended putting full backups in a different pool (disk) to incremental backups.
What would the benefit of sperating full and ...
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Large incremental backup sizes although minimal changes with cPanel tarballs
I am using Bacula and connecting to my cPanel server on a nightly basis at 2am to backup the tar.gz files that were generated the previous day at 6am by cPanel.
Note, cPanel is generating a full ...
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139 views
Duplicity Incremental Restores
I use duplicity to manage an encrypted daily incremental and weekly full backup schedule for my Linux box. Though duplicity allows incremental backups, I could not find any way to do anything other ...
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rsync incremental as a get
Is it possible for rsync to be used on 1 backup server and then connect to all the other servers and grab files and backup incrementally?
my current command: (how ever this is more a PUT then a GET)
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Remote backup grabbing
I have 2 servers. 1 is main. 2 is backup. I would like 2 to log in and grab files from 1 and backup on 2 with rsnapshot. Is this possible?
I was looking at the config setup and saw this:
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what does the --backup-mode option for rdiff mean?
I've got rdiff-backup up & running nicely using cron jobs over SSH between two VMs (my webserver and a backup space), using scripts put together from various places online.
I'm backing up various ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 backup - what is generating all the change data?
We have a small, relatively idle Windows Server 2008 R2 installation that does basic file sharing and hosts Exchange for about 10 not very active users.
When running a windows server backup, the ...
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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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What's the best way to schedule a command to run, assuring a previous set of commands have completed?
Namely, I need to rotate backup folders. I have many machines on a schedule to rsync to a single backup machine. Although I schedule the backups to begin in the late evening, and schedule a folder ...
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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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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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open source backup system with user-driven recovery
At my old company we used NetApp, which supported a ".snapshot" feature. Whenever I did something stupid to my files, I could cd .snapshot and find hourly and nightly directories which contain ...
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Bandwidth-friendly backup strategy using tar?
We've used tar to backup and compress (gzip) selected directories on our file server with very good results until recently.
Each and every one of our backups are stored on mirrored (RAID) harddrives ...
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Backing up server and multiple clients
I'm running a Amahi server. It's basically a Fedora14 x64 installation.
I'm looking for a good solution to backup my 200GB system drive on the server to an external USB/eSATA drive every night. I ...
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What backup tool should I use for easy incremental backups? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to provide proper backups for multiple Linux based servers?
I want to do nightly backups of the whole system and be able to rollback to any of last 7 days. And, it ...
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Do incremental backups from Linux
I want to make incremental backups on a Linux machine, on the next way:
BACKUP1 BACKUP2
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Interruptible, incremental backup tool with timing strategies
Basically, I'm searching for a rdiff-backup that can be safely interrupted (network disconnection, computer switch off, sleep), and that can develop scheduling strategies to in order to avoid ...
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Creating a *Consistent* *Online* MySQL Backup with InnoDB AND MyISAM tables
I just spent hours building a new database server to replace 2 failed servers from a mysqldump file created a month ago, then used my server's bin-logs to bring that mysqldump up to date. Now that I ...
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How can I restore a duplicity backup from a certain date?
Is it possible to restore a duplicity backup from a certain time in the past?
For example, if I'm making daily incremental backups, is there a way to restore a backup from three days ago?
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Incremental backup up from a remote ftp box to a Windows server
I need to backup a website to a Windows server every week and I only have access to remote FTP. I'd like to use an incremental backup program so that I can just copy the files every week on a schedule ...
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backing up my linux server to my windows machine
I have a linux server. several days ago one of HDDs attached to the server crashed and i was very lucky not to loose anything important cause that was my backup HDD.
Now i'm looking for a solution to ...
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What program to use for incremental backup of large single file
I'm looking for a program to make incremental backups of one large file (3GB) on windows systems over internet.
Any idea? Thanks!
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Why do I need to backup the Exchange Logs during a Full VSS backup
Suppose I have a backup application that performs scheduled backups of my Exchange Server using the VSS API: Why does the backup application need to backup all the log files as well as the .edb file ...
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write bash file to do incremntal backup daily?
i want to write bash file to do incremntal backup daily ... how i can do it ?
by svnlook youngest i can get the current svn repository revision ... how i can store the result of svnlook youngest in ...
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Autorotating Incremental/incremental backups with cron
i need a backup script (or tool) for my Ubuntu Server. Simple packing a folder into a tar.gz cron.d is quite easy to do.
But the problem is, with every update there are several 100 MB of data. So I ...
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Differential system backup at startup
I got a Linux Ubuntu Server, where system has its own 5 gig partition. Ive recently made a backup of this system partition into an .img file using dd.
Since it is a system partition I needed to boot ...
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How do I administrate the storage used by Windows Server Backup?
I'm administering a single instance of Windows Server 2008 for a small business, which is backing up daily onto a large USB hard drive. For about the past year, this has worked very well, however the ...
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Remote Backups of my dedicated server [closed]
I'm hosting with ThePlanet and while I love their services, their backup services are a bit pricey. To backup my whole server (incrementally) would cost $50/mo on top of my server fee (around $120). ...
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Offsite data backups and data vaulting…
This is for website data, database data, and some internal office data that needs to be "vaulted" and secured.
Any viable "experts only" solutions out there that don't require ridiculous time to ...
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rdiff-backup command view backedup files
We are using rdiff-backup command to make incremental backups.My question is that how to view the files in a particular backup i.e, .gz file
Also how to recover all the files in a particular gz file
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Creating diff from a tar
There is a tar file which was created few days before, this tar file was created on the /files directory.
And now /files directory has new files uploaded in it.
My question is how to create another ...
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I want to version control my entire slice
I'm renting a slice (i.e., a VPS) from Slicehost. I've a spent a day or two filling up /usr with my favorite packages, /etc with configs and init scripts, and so on. Now I want to:
save this whole ...
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Windows data backups with alternating removable drives?
I have a removable disk drive (RD1000 from Dell), and I am looking for backup software that will allow me to backup every night, and every morning switch to the alternate disk. There is only one ...
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Windows Server 2008 System State Backup
What I'm looking for, is info on what is contained in the server 2008 system state backup. It is incredibly large (10+ G), and annoying to backup remotely. is there a way to take a full system ...
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Duplicity Full Backup Lifetime and Efficiency
I'm trying to work up a backup strategy for some clients, and am leaning towards duplicity for remote backup (already use rdiff-backup for internal/on location backups).
Is it reasonable to want a ...
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Free Backup Software that supports Incrementals
We currently use Esxpress for our production servers but am wondering if there are any free alternatives that will do incremental or "delta" backups of VM's? Preferably for ESX and ESXi.
Thanks,
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Maintain a single backup of Exchange 2003 onto a remote computer over the internet
How do I maintain a single up to date backup of our Exchange 2003 server onto a remote computer, connected over the internet?
We still take nightly backups onto tape but we want something completely ...
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SQL Server “Quick” Incremental backup?
I'm working on a very large database (250+ gigs) with well over 225 million records. The database is hard to work with simply from its sheer size. This database is read-only.
We're looking at getting ...
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Backup Strategy: Online Off-site backup like Time Machine
I've a linux VPS hosted in a VPS datacenter.
I need to implement backup on it. I'll order The Planet's Stored Cloud to do this.
http://www.theplanet.com/cloud-storage/
My question is about the ...
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How to easily store incremental backups of a linux server on a remote windows machine?
Good evenening!
I'm searching for an easy way of storing incremental backups of a linux server on a remote windows home server. Both machines have their own static IP address. The linux machine is a ...
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Incremental backups of Virtual Machines
We currently run a bunch of physical machines. For backups, we've been using dirvish, which is essentially a wrapper around rsync, and doing them incrementally. We're currently pushing a new machine ...
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Create a SQL Server full backup without affecting maintenance plan?
We use a centralized SQL Server 2005 server for web development. The server has a maintenance plan to take a full backup each Sunday and incremental backups on all other nights. All databases use ...
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How do I backup a couple of macs to a Linux sever?
I currently use rsync with --link-dest to get an incremental Time Machine-ish backup of few sources with a variety of operating systems to a single Linux box. I swap out the backup drive to an ...
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GFS Backup Rotation
If I implement a brand new GFS backup rotation, where M-Th I'm running incremental backups, and on Friday I run a Full backup, how will the first incremental backup that runs on Monday know what to ...
