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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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back-up database in Linux partition from windows partition!

Hello I am in a very embarrassing situation, I was trying to upgrade to ubuntu 10.04 from ubuntu 9.10 yesterday and while updating I forgot to put my laptop on charger and the battery ran out. Since ...
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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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execute bash file daily ? (OS=UNIX)

i want to execute bash file daily at 12:30 for example to make backup to something how i can do it ?? and other one monthly ???? the operating system is Unix
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How do you backup a storage server?

I'm looking at implementing a very large storage server to be used as live NAS for several other servers (all Linux-based). By very large, I mean between 4TB and 20TB usable space (although it's ...
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file system sync

I'm currently using rsync to keep a copy of a filesystem. This rsync constantly runs and keeps the backup up to date (in theory, its not particularly reliable). Is there a better way to keep a remote ...
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How do you automatically recycle tapes in Retrospect 7.6 for Windows?

What is the best way to setup Retrospect to recycle tapes automatically? I would have thought this to be very straight forward but everything I have come across so far seems to indicate otherwise. ...
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Which tools are most commonly used to auto-encrypt backups for SQL Server 2005?

I am looking to automate the encryption of my backups, and SQL Server 2005 does not appear to include built in functionality to do the work. Similar to the question here - Is it possible to configure ...
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How can I start a program when a specific USB flash drive connects to my mac?

I'm currently writing my thesis at a big company, with an even bigger corporate firewall. So I've to save my work on an USB flash drive. Now I'm searching for a backup solution for that flash drive ...
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Is it ok to backup a server to USB disk?

My company recently wasted a lot of time restoring data from corrupted USB disk backups. Everyone here is now keen to prevent the same happening again - but before buying the $5K tape drive now ...
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SQL Server 2008 Backup not increasing FreeSpace

OK so I've seen tons of information around about shrinking and free space and similar, but what I've not been able to see is just the basics for SQL Server 2008 on free space in the logfile. I was ...
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Rackspace - if I delete a server will I lose the backups?

I've just started using Rackspace and was disappointed to find I have to install the whole LAMP stack myself. This isn't a big deal if I only have to do it once. I've set up a test server to try ...
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sql server 2008: what should the backup plan be for the master db?

we have only like 4 databases on this server. one of them is very crucial. i would like to know what should we do regarding backups for the master db? we dont really do many "master" type of ...
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sql server 2008: should i be running differential or transactional logs or both HELP!

i have two databases: this one was set up by a third party and they do not allow us to change the database to full recovery. so it is my understanding that if a database is in simple mode, then the ...
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MS SQL Server 2005 Backup over a slow (and with a quota) internet link

I'm using rsync to mirror my samba servers to a offsite linux box via an vDSL Internet link. No worries here. Our daily changes in these files are to small to trigger the daily quota of the link. Now ...
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Jungle Disk vs DiskAgent

I'm looking at implementing a secure off-site data backup of about 100 GB (and growing), more than likely on Amazon S3. I haven't found many reviews of DiskAgent, has anybody had a good experience ...
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Backups with rsync and gpg

I've found plenty of posts online about this but none that actually answer my question. I'm trying to back up my system in such a way that the files end up encrypted on my backup drive. Here's a ...
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SQLServer Maintenance Plan Backups Failing to backup to Samba Share

I have a SQL backup plan that writes the backups to a SAMBA network share. I have a T-SQL net use (with persistent:yes) script that is the first part of the maintenance plan to access the share. This ...
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Encypted backups

I realize some form of this question has been asked many times before but none of the answers I've seen are really what I'm looking for. I have a server that I'll call S and a backup machine that I'...
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How to make sure that in case of our mail server being unreachable (connection down) mail still gets queued and resent once it's back up?

We have had some issues with losing internet connection once in a while. Normally that would mean our mail server is unreachable and incoming email is bouncing. We've set up MX Backup (second MX ...
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SQL Transaction log backups after Full SQL Backups

Environment: VM with 20 gb of HD space and secondary hard drive with 3 gb. Windows Server 2003 and Sql 2005 Backup Scenario: Weekly Full backups with Backupexec Nightly Diff. backups with ...
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Continuous Backup Software for Windows 2003 Server

I am looking for a software package that does continuous data backup of file shares on a single server. Backup location would be a NAS over a VPN tunnel. File Versioning is a must. Any ...
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Windows file backup software

I'm looking for the backup software for Windows servers aswell as for the workstations. We always used Acronis but backup&recovery 10 is slow as hell and has too many bells and whistles (i.e. ...
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Backup software for service provider?

Currently using Vembu's storegrid. Not very happy with the user interface, the reports or nothing. Very hard to get a good grip on how well everything is. backing up typical servers such as Windows ...
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Best package to manage backup / recovery of a web application with database, to a remote server?

We need to manage automated backup and restoration of multiple websites, most built on PHP / MySQL, hosted on different servers across the globe. All the backups will be made to a single remote server....
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Backing up permissions on Linux

Due to an intermittent internet connecton and some fat fingered typing, I came very close to sending the command chown -R me.group / to my server, which I think would be fairly disruptive. Is there a ...
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Laptop Backup Software (Corporate)?

I wondered if any of you who have a fleet of laptops are using anything to back them up, and if so what? In particular I'm looking for a solution that is totally hands-off once installed i.e. the ...
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What files to backup on Lighttpd+MySQL+PHP server

I have a VPS with CentOS 5. I would like to create backup of: all my config files tweaks of database, php, server a databases cron settings website files installed applications and their settings (?) ...
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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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oracle database move current server to another machine problem

these day i really stress because of oracle server, im quite new to oracle. i have one old windows 2003 server which installed oracle 10.2.0 version. and i want to full backup of this oracle then ...
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Linux distro for starting out with Bacula / AMANDA? [closed]

I'm interested in getting started with Bacula / AMANDA(Zmanda), and plan on setting up a Linux VM in VirtualBox to test it out. I'd like to avoid some of the initial setup time by polling the ...
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advisability of taskkill to close an application

Before running backups on the data from an application I need to close it cleanly without risking an improper shutdown and data corruption in a Paradox Database. How likely is that, if I use taskkill ...
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Compiling and maintaining applications?

What configure format do you use for compiling and why ? Example (you don't have to reply as the example but do state your directory setup): <Layout MyPersonalizedLayout> prefix: /...
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Getting the path of items on your network

I have a ReadyNAS on my network that I can't SSH or rsync into because it doesn't allow connections on port 22. I can, however, see the machine in Ubuntu's filesystem GUI under "Network". If I open up ...
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Generating error correction data for existing files (backups)

My server has a big dataset stored on disk. I am worried by the possibility of the data being silently corrupted over the years without anybody noticing. My idea was to generate "recovery data" for ...
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Windows Server 2008 built in back up issue

On our windows 2008 r2 server, I was trying to configure back of server, but I am continue to get error message saying one of the volumes is fat32 and all the volumes needs to be ntfs. After searching ...
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What are questions to ask when planning database backups?

Examples: Was is the operating environment? How large of a dataset? Are offline backups acceptable? Is point-in-time restoration a requirement? What storage engine? CONTEXT: Want to ask how to do ...
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Sql server backups best practices. Too many files created?

I know this has been asked before, but I'm trying to understand this better. I traditionally used Backup exec to backup sql servers, but I now have two sql servers that are off-site and of course I ...
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RAID on a low-traffic server?

My company is buying a couple servers. I don't have a sysadmin background and neither does anyone at my company but I'm the "computer guy" so it falls to me to spec them out. We were given the option ...
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Factors in choosing storage for backups

I manage an ESX server, with about 20 VMs, and a Hyper-V server, with 2 VMs, at work. I am looking for storage to store backups from these servers (a mixture of ESX and Hyper-V). What factors will be ...
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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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Is there software that can help me easily back up my data from Amazon S3 to my premise?

So everyone backs their stuff up to the cloud. But I want to back up my stuff from the cloud. For a planned SaaS service, users are saving files containing their intellectual property and we're ...
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A multiple web-app backup script

I'm mostly a Drupal developer, and have a backup script that goes through each site and uses Drush to perform a db dump, before archiving all the sites and their dumps. I've just finished a small ...
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What is the recommended backup solution for backup files with weird & funny chars in them?

What is the recommended backup solution for copying files with weird & funny chars in them? e.g. accented chars, square brackets, ampersands, files beginning with periods in them. I'm using ...
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Recovering files from a ReadyNAS

I'm backing up a Linux machine (called Gob) to a ReadyNAS. Everything is going fine but I want to practice a recovery so things have a higher chance of going smoothly in the event that a real disaster ...
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Binlogs vs sql dumps in MySQL

I've been reading about mysql's binlogs and sql dumps, and I have a doubt: Is there any benefit in using binlogs instead of sql dumps? I know you can use binlogs for making incremental backups -...
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Mound bind a readonly partition as read-write

I'm putting together a simple daily backup script which rsyncs my home directory to a separate partition. I want to have the backup partition mounted at all times to allow browsing, however I also ...
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Does the full backup truncate transaction log?

Does the transaction log get truncated when I take a full backup using command BACKUP DATABASE AdventureWorks TO Adventurewks GO Or do I have to take a log backup separately? BACKUP LOG ...
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Setting up distributed fault tolerant storage at home

I am tired of worrying about data loss at home. My wife is a semi pro photographer, and essentially all of our family memories are digital (and we ought to convert the ones that are not). I am ...
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What differential backup program to use?

Currently I'm using rdiff-backup, but I'm not happy with its performance, and ability to track down the problem. Is there any other tool that provides differential backups over ssh? Which is the ...
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Should I run DBCC checkdb before full backups? Or after?

We have a mix of SQL 2000, 2005, and 2008 servers, and we've always run a DBCC CHECKDB nightly just before the full backups, under the theory that you want to make sure the DB is in good shape before ...

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