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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Mount TrueCrypt encrypted volume by Cobian prebackup event
I have a 1TB USB disk where I make the first level of backup of a WS2008 R2 file server. The usb is not fully encrypted, just about 700GB. Cobian is running as a service, impersonating Administrator ...
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Setting up a secure, automated hard drive backup for DNS-321
My company currently has a d-link DNS-321 hard drive. I want to have it automatically back itself up onto one or more other external hard drives (that need to be purchased). I would like the solution ...
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How to create bootable backup image of windows install
I have received a new laptop and installed all drivers and necessary apps. hile the windows 7 install is fresh and fast I was wondering how I could make a bootable backup of the system in current ...
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How to backup a remote VPS machine?
I am considering opting for a VPS solution, with the server running Ubuntu server. I am pretty new to this, and I need to come up with a backup policy for my server data.
Initial data is likely to be ...
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which is the best drive backup software [closed]
Iam using window 2008 server on drive C
and then on D drive i have all virtual machines folder.
I also have two more internal SATA drives
i want to backup the whole HD i.e drive C and D.
I like the ...
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Check file integrity while writing
I'm doing backup with the command like following:
ionice -c3 tar -ch data | lbzip2 -n 4 | ionice -c3 tee /mnt/smb/out.tar.bz2 > /dev/null
and after that I'm trying to restore data from backup:
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Debian Server Backup in Realtime - Mail, Apache, MySQL
I'm looking for a backup strategy for my production server. It should be fully automatic and as "real-time" as possible.
Further, i don't want to do much to recover everything. Let's say like a ...
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PowerShell and Windows Server Backup on Server 2008
I recently put together a PowerShell Script on a server running Windows Server 2008 R2 that created a dated directory then started Windows Server Backup to make a system state backup. The script is ...
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Backup solution for hosted server.
We have a need to backup around 6GB's worth of .bak files on a weekly basis. These files are stored on a hosted dedicated server running Windows Server 2008 r2. Unfortunately the constraints on this ...
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Downtimeless MySQL backups on a budget
My current MySQL backup scenario is to replicate our db to a second server and run mysqldump on that server to remove any downtime from table or row locking. This is working well but costs $150 per ...
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Inject virtual Windows Server 2008 settings/config to physical server
Is it possible to configure Windows Server 2008 virtually (services, software, policies, folder structure etc) and then inject those configurations and system settings to a physical server with ...
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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.
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Can I use ArcServe Alert without Microsoft Exchange Server?
I want to get my ArcServe job to generate emails for me because lately I have not been in the office to babysit the backup jobs. Unfortunately I do not have exchange in house and all the settings in ...
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DPM 2010 Offsite AD Image configuration job reports access is denied
Update: I think I've identified the moment of the problem in procmon on the primary server and have put a small chunk of the procmon output here.
http://pastebin.com/GGX8qczs
We've set up an offsite ...
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Backup SQL Server database to local machine
I'm connected to the remote database using SQL Server Management Studio 2008.
I'm a little bit limited for space on my server, so I just want to do a backup to an external drive connected to my ...
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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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What is the industry standard solution for linux web server and mac file server failover systems?
I am a web developer at my company and am therefore qualified to be an IT guy, apparently. I have a single Ubuntu web and file server currently, but I want to break up the server tasks onto two ...
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Scratch Media in Backup Exec
So Symantec wanted $280 per incident to use their support line without a support contract. Yikes!
What is "Scratch Media"? I noticed that all the tapes in my library that aren't currently being used ...
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Tape software that presents library as network share?
I'm currently looking to design a storage architecture for a video production team. I've got the disk part sorted, but I'm looking for some advice on the tape library / long term archive part.
The ...
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Recommend a rugged, good performing eSATA + USB hard drive for off-site backup? [closed]
I'm looking for a tough (drop resistant, etc), small USB + eSATA external hard drive specifically for backups that will be taken off-site and potentially stored over long periods. Size 500GB and up.
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What backup tool should I use for easy incremental backups? [duplicate]
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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 must be ...
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How to create backups when upgrading Debian?
I want to upgrade my Debian lenny to squeeze but as I'm doing it for the first time I was thinking how to create the backup mentioned in the release notes:
The main things you'll want to back up ...
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Windows Backup failed as another backup or recovery is in progress
i have set up backup schedule on our server. SQL Server 2008 to 01:00am on windows server 2008 R2 to 4:00am. Sql backup runs well, but system backup ends sometimes with error.
The error is : http://...
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Where are my server settings located (for backup purposes)
I'm backing up files on my server, but I'd like to know the location of the most important server configuration files. I.E. - if I lose everything on my server, but I want to come back with the same ...
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Which FTP backup system works for this scenario?
We're a company who only has access to a limited amount of diskspace. A total backup of our data is around 300 megabytes.
We would like some kind of system that only uploads files that have changed, ...
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How to do daily backup?
Sorry for the dumb question, but I have a Windows XP box we use for a 'server' in the LAN network to store various important files. We have 2 hard drives (1 TB each) and want to use the second one for ...
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Full Disk Imaging when machine is running
I am looking for a disk imaging solution that can run in background when my machine is up and running (e.g. via cron). I am using an Ubuntu machine.
In the past I have used Clonezilla for periodic ...
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How do I migrate, dump, or restore a VirtualBox system?
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What is the procedure for dumping a VirtualBox system? Note that this is not migrating the guest OS from hardware to virtualization or anything else mentioned by Googling "migrate ...
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Backing up VirtualBox VMs
Does anyone have a good complete strategy for backing up a bunch of virtual machines running under VirtualBox?
I intend to run a handful of virtual machines on a single hardware platform and back ...
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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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Lower the I/O priority for backups
I have a job that nightly runs a backup of all attached databases however it can bog the server down if someone is connected during that time. I have TONS of CPU overhead to work with (I am barely ...
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MySQL Enterprise Backup GUI (or a live backup alternative)
I am looking into MySQL Enterprise backup solution. I am interested in a non-blocking mysql backup (live and incremental).
MySQL Enterprise provides this solution (we have the subscription already). ...
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Multiple OS X clients - Time Machine backup to NAS?
We have about 15 OS X desktop machines - mainly iMacs, some MacBooks and Mac Pros. Each user has a local account on the machine, and a portable USB disk for a Time Machine backup.
I want to ...
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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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SQL Server transaction log BACKUPS are very large
In SQL Server 2008 R2 I have a database that has full backups nightly and transaction log backups every ten minutes. The database is in full recovery model.
The problem is that the backup files for ...
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How can I backup / restore my Sql Server 2008 Database?
I have a database that is around .. 20ish Gig. I need to (manually*) back up this database, 7zip the backup and then DOWNLOAD this backup from my server to my desktop. (Rinse, repeat sorta often).
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Display alternate backup site when main goes offline
We currently host our website in-house. Consistently we're loosing internet or power. I'd like to house a secondary site at that would be used when our main is offline.
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How do I create a backup of a vhd file?
How to back up a vhd automatically? Is there any tool which I can set up?
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Linux noob: Need to backup 2 linux servers to a Windows share
I have 2 Gentoo Linux servers that currently use rsync to sync between each other to do backups.
I have a Windows box that is our real "backup server".
I have a share on the Windows box called "...
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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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Importance of Segregating Backups?
We are in the midst of an infrastructure overhaul, and we're now looking at backup solutions for our new servers. We will have a relatively simplistic server infrastructure consisting of 5 servers, 3 ...
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Do you know of an online back up & sync solution for Windows that actually works?
I've been looking for some time for a program that backups your data to the cloud and is also able to sync 2 or more computers. By syncing I mean, if I change something on one computer that it should ...
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Is there a way to Use Windows 2008 Backup to FTP
Is there a way to use windows backup in Windows 2008 to store to an external FTP server?
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Is it sufficient to backup entire server - MySQL included?
I want a complete backup of my server. It's CentOS 5.
My thoughts: I can literally take every single file on the server and back it up, and I'll have a backup of everything. Server config, my PHP ...
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Would it be better security to write a backup script in PHP or shell? [closed]
I have a server running Ubuntu 10, it mostly has PHP websites with MySQL databases.
I need to write a backup script
to backup the database
to zip up all the php files.
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What's the best solution for 99.999% Up-time to end users? [closed]
I'm looking for a solution to make sure my site stays accessible as much as possible on a long term basic, what i might need is just a simple DNS management solution (I don't know but i would like ...
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Backup/Zip all server files once to local hard drive
I have backup2l scheduled to take daily backups that are stored on an external server, this work fine although I would also like to take a full backup of the whole server and store this on my local PC....
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SBS 2003 Back up solution
I have a single SBS 2003 that is a domain controller, and file server, MSSQL db's, and some other things. I am looking for a back up solution (local to external HDD) in the situation where the server ...
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How do you back up your site? [closed]
I am sure there are a lot of way to backup a site, but I am currently overwhelmed of info overflow from Google search. I have a site running on Amazon AWS (EC2, EBS) and would like to have easy and ...
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Reliability of DPM with Windows Storage Server or large backups
We are successfully using DPM 2010 in a number of places, but in two sites we've been struggling with getting the backups to work. Both sites are backing up about 1TB of data and both from Windows ...
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