Questions tagged [backup]
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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Pruning of backup files as they get older
I'm looking for a tool (for Linux) that will prune my backup files, not like the standard logrotate that completely deletes them after defined number of rotations, but where the files are basically ...
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cpanel backup to Google drive [closed]
enter image description hereI am facing issues to generate backup files to google drive, following this article:
https://docs.cpanel.net/knowledge-base/backup/how-to-configure-google-drive-as-a-backup-...
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Backup Dbeaver with postgres
I'm tring to apply backup using DBeaver with postgres:
1: Create backup:
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3: I try apply restore on another database and get this:
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Velero Web UI for kubernetes
Does Velero supports Web UI or is it just CLI,
I have seen couple of Github repos with the SC.
https://github.com/winnieoursbrun/velero-ui
https://github.com/hsmade/velero-ui
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Azure VM stuck on GRUB Bootloader after kernel upgrade
I've an Azure VM that has had quite a lot of extra work regards its networking etc performed as post-create setup. Having read about a particular vulnerability that the VM was susceptible to (judging ...
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Goodsync S3 Empty Secret Access Key (AKA Hacking you Linux Goodsync configurations file)
I'm trying to use Goodsync from Linux (Wheezy). I have set up a backup to S3 (see below) but I keep getting the error Empty Secret Access Key.
=== Job === test:<
'file:///testgsynclocal/' <-&...
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Error during Veeam SQL log backup: "Failed to flush file buffers"
My company uses Veeam Backup & Replication to make backups of our VMWare-hosted virtual machines. We use Veeam's SQL log backup feature for our MS SQL 2008 R2 server. Our backup repository resides ...
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How to backup GPG?
What are the critical files I need to backup from GPG? I guess my private key would qualify of course, but what else?
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Secure offsite backup, even in the case of hacker root access
I'm looking for a way to implement a more secure way of doing an offsite backup that will also protect my data against the situation where a malicious hacker has gained root access to my server. Even ...
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Do I have to include the server secret (used to encrypt passwords) in the backup?
I have been requested to create a backup of a server. The server is Linux Ubuntu 22.04.2 where the core application (nodejs) + management software (nodejs / bash scripts) + monitoring (nodejs / net-...
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Backup entire NILFS to remote location
I am looking to implement NILFS at my SME but I need a bit of help. I must backup the current system and all snapshots/checkpoints in a different continent to keep auditors happy. I'm currently ...
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How can I query the version number of a remote rsync server (daemon)?
How can I query the version number of a remote rsync server (or daemon)?
I can find out the version number of my local rsync client using --version:
% rsync --version
rsync version 3.2.7 protocol ...
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rsnapshot du shows huge difference in size between two backups, rsnapshot-diff says nothing changed between them
I'm on Debian 12. My backup drive filled up so I'm trying to figure out what is using so much space. Somehow the most recent backup is not hourly.0, it's hourly.20 and from a few days ago ("...
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How to use a Volume Shadow Copy to make backups
The plan is to create a shadow copy of a quite large, I/O-heavy volume. It's 350GB, containing a filesystem-based fulltext index organized in hundreds of folders and hundred-thousands of tiny files ...
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Velero backup PV freezes whole server
I am facing an issue while trying to backup a namespace with PV in it: after running command velero backup create nginx-example-with-pv --include-namespaces nginx-example i am unable to execute velero ...
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TSM rebuild complete backup after operating system migration
I have a server with several mounted external drives from JBODs. This server ensures that the backup is done using TSM software. This server now had an operating system migration due to end-of-life. ...
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Impossible to delete AWS backup vault, backup plans?
I swear, I've read all the docs I can find, and have tried everything including the AWS policy generator UI and manually editing policy JSON, but no matter what I try, when I try to delete any of ...
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How does the 'stop' mode in Proxmox' vzdump backup tool work?
So i'm currently using vzdump with the parameter --mode stop. In the description it says that the VM gets shut down before the actual backup starts and after the backup has been started the VM gets ...
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protocol version mismatch -- is your shell clean?
When following the instructions to do rsync backups given here: http://troy.jdmz.net/rsync/index.html
I get the error "protocol version mismatch -- is your shell clean?"
I read somewhere ...
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Which tar file format should I use?
tar can create the archive in different formats. GNU tar, ustar, pax, v7.
What would be the best for long time archiving?
Is there significant differencies in these formats?
I would use the best ...
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AWS Organizations does not allow Backup policy covering af-south-1
We use AWS Backup via a policy set at the AWS Organizations level (in the management account).
I now want to expand the policy to cover the af-south-1 (Cape Town) region, but that region is not ...
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passing additional parameters to rsync using rsnapshot
I have my backups being performed by rsnapshot, works well.
EXCEPT, on one of the jobs for the /home volume I'd like rsync to copy the sym-links as physical directory/files. I believe the parameter ...
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Best Practices for Proxmox Backup Server(local or SAN)
I'm looking for some advice on optimizing my Proxmox Backup Server setup.
Here's my current setup:
I have three Proxmox hosts, each connected to a SAN via iSCSI with dual fiber switches.
Additionally, ...
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StoreOnce 3540 System Library Offline
I have a StoreOnce 3540 System.
In VTL/Libraries, i have one as offline.
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How can i turn it online?
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Save the atjobs command time records for Backup
I wonder if there is a simple way to save the time records that has been applied by Atjobs, because I need to save the times already defined by Atjobs when making a system switch for example.
As far ...
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PostgreSQL Backup: how to activate backup mode non-interactively
Hello PostgreSQL experts!
I'm running a postgresql 15 server with multiple database instances ("clusters"), which uses Netapp NFS as storage for the data and WAL directories. I'm trying to ...
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Kasten k10 dashboard 504 error
I Have installed the Kasten k10 on AWS k8, trying to access the dashboard from service port forward.
Dashboard has an network error with error logs on dashboard-svc pod and Gateway pod.
Below are the ...
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Total space in bkps using rsync and hardlinks: who is right between du and Synlogy web interface?
I bkp my server root partition on a Synology NAS (fs: btrfs) mounted as NFS on /mnt/bkps using this script that is based on rsync and hard links, to to have daily bkps.
If I check the space using du ...
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Script to wake up and shutdown a remote backup server after rsync command
How can I script the wake up of a remote backup server (with Ubuntu Server 22.04), and after rsync command is complete, shutdown the server.
For example, the server would turn on every Friday at 12am ...
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Cron job starts but doesn't wait to be completed [duplicate]
I've made a tool for backing up website files & DB. It works as expected if ran by any user. Usually it takes around a minute to run in my configuration. When I added it to the cron it starts but ...
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How can I see the expire date of a file in Tivoli Storage Manager?
If I understand correctly, when I do an incremental backup and a file has been removed from the client, the server marks it as inactive which makes it eligible for purging when the expire time has ...
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MariaDB taking ages to restore backup
So I did a mysqldump of a pretty huge db and I'm trying to restore it now using:
mysql db_test < db_test.sql
but it looks like it's not gonna end by the end of this year. It's been about an hour ...
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GIT as a backup tool
On a server, install git
cd /
git init
git add .
git commit -a -m "Yes, this is server"
Then get /.git/ to point to a network drive (SAN, NFS, Samba whatever) or different disk. Use a cron job every ...
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Troubleshooting 'Could Not Start' scheduled task error:
I'm trying to run snapshot on my server to back up the drive onto a local NAS server. I'm currently using this on a Win2k, Win2k3, and Win2k8 servers. Both the Win2k and Win2k8 servers are correctly ...
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Why restoring a partial backup is overwriting my whole Google Cloud database?
I have two projects in Firebase/Google Cloud, one for Development and another for Production (where the app is live).
Steps I took
I exported a specific collection from the database of my Production ...
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SQL Server 2008 Recovery Mode reverts from FULL to SIMPLE
Three of our SQL databases have their recovery model change every night from FULL to SIMPLE. The only jobs that I'm aware of are two BackupExec jobs that run nightly. Why would the recovery model ...
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From bad sector to "damaged file" - did it for Linux/ext3, can I do it for Windows/NTFS?
When a SMART check on a disk reports a bad sector, it is important to be able to identify the file that has the bad sector - and restore it from backups. Below, I show how I did this for my Linux/ext3 ...
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Can rdiff-backup delete increments between backups, *not* the oldest ones?
With backup software I'm used to having an option like "only keep weekly snapshots older than a year, then only keep monthly snapshots older than two years". Basically, save space by ...
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Extract hard linked backup data from file server with rsync to exFAT file system
I need to gradually extract all data of the specific directory from Time Machine backup so:
it fits the destination drive size
it has no hard links because destination volume file system is exFAT
it'...
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What happens during a live SQL Server backup?
Some of my coworkers were surprised when I told them that I can back up an SQL Server database while it's still running and wondered how that's possible. I know that SQL Server is capable of backing ...
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Automatic file backup management?
I have a bunch of files (about 50 MB total) that I would like to back up every 20 minutes. Each backup should be compressed into a single (.tar.gz) file, and backups older than 24h should be removed. ...
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rdiff-backup Warning: Metadata file has no digest for file
I'm trying to verify my rdiff-backup, but it seems like half of the files are missing their metadata hash. This means I get tons of errors when running the --compare-hash function:
Warning: Metadata ...
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Is it possible to backup across multiple hard drives?
I'm going to be setting up an 8x20TB ZFS RaidZ2 with no spare. This will give me roughly 100TB of storage for large 3D model files.
I want to purchase some extra HDDs so I can periodically backup and ...
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Robocopy ERROR 5. Access is denied
When using robocopy to backup data in a directory tree to a NAS, I keep getting Error 5 - Copying NTFS Security to Destination Directory. Access denied. for folders which shouldn't return such error. ...
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Veeam Hyper-V backup error: Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer VSS_WS_FAILED_AT_POST_SNAPSHOT
I have an error from a Veeam Hyper-V backup of a Virtual Machine in a Hyper-V host:
Unable to create snapshot (Microsoft CSV Shadow Copy Provider) (mode: Veeam application-aware processing). Details: ...
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Crypto key storage and recovery -- best practices?
We have a bunch of SSH, GPG, SSL and other private keys that, obviously:
must only be available to the smallest number of people possible
can't be "lost" if a hard drive dies or the building burns ...
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ZFS permission error 'cannot set property' when receiving snapshot from remote machine despite delegated permission
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I'm setting up ZFS autobackup on my home server for offsite backups. All commands printed below are run as non-root.
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A 'permission denied' error arises originating from the target ...
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ZFS send/recv full snapshot
I have been backing up my ZFS pool in Server A to Server B (backup server) via zfs send/recv, and using daily incremental snapshots.
Due to hardware issues, the ZFS pool in Server A is now gone - and ...
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Exchange 2010 to Office 365 Migration
We're looking to migrate all of our mailboxes etc onto Office 365 from Exchange 2010. We aim to still primarily use our local Exchange 2010 setup however, the office 365 setup will act as a 'live ...
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Bacula TLS negotiation failed
Problem with Bacula, the Director and storage on the same host (...151), client on another host (...139). I don't use TLS/SSL between director and client, when i run the job i get an error. How can ...
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