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which linux distro favours remote administration and remote incremental backup over vpn?
My partner runs a small accounting practise. The computer support guy has recently gone out of business, so I've been volunteered (!) to replace the aging company server.
I should say that my ...
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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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Free backup software with support for Shadow Copy and Incremental backup [closed]
I'm looking for a robust backup software solution that is:
Free
Robust, proven solution
Supports shadow copy (windows)
Supports incremental backup and restore
Supports restore of individual files
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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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MySQL incremental backups and database replication
We have some servers that runs a tomcat app with a MySQL database. These servers are in different cities and the web app is used locally by our customers.
On these servers a crontab job runs twice a ...
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MSSQL techniques to archive-backup content
We are now moving from a MySQL to a MSSQL 2008R2 database. As the project is a web application that we need to be able to scale well, we need to rework the way the DB handles data.
We have 3 separate ...
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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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Windows based Mogo database running on EC2 backups
Currently we have a windows 2008 server running a Mongo database hosted on Amazon EC2. Without looking at database replication to another database what can we do to make sure the database is getting ...
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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 clintes
I'm running a Amahi server at home. 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 ...
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What backup tool should I use for easy incremental backups? [closed]
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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backup error - windows server 2003
I have server loaded with windows 2003 it is scheduled for a system state backup using Ntbackup utility, for some time it worked fine as scheduled , since a couple of days the scheduled backup isn't ...
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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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Update RDS db via mysqlbinlog: “you need (at least one of) the SUPER privilege(s)”
We are moving a production site to EC2/RDS
Followed these instructions:
http://geehwan.posterous.com/moving-a-production-mysql-database-to-amazon
I have set up row-based binary logging on the ...
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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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dirvish doesn't backup NFS mount
I do incremental backups using dirvish. (dirvish makes incremental backups using rsync and hardlinks).
This has worked perfectly on our old server (nothing fancy, just a linux box with one disk on ...
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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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How to write rsync command to backup everything except hardware specific files
I have a VPS production server that serves web apps that I make for clients. I have an rsync cron job running on my dev server that does a daily backup of the entire production server.
#!/bin/sh
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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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How do I improve my incremental-backup performance?
I'm currently using the traditional rsync+cp -al method to create incremental/snapshot backups of our server tree. The backups are going onto a pair of eight-disk towers connected to the backup ...
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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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MySQL Incremental backups with Master-Slave replication
we have a MySQL system in Master-slave replication mode. Currently we are doing full backups with mysqldumps to a remote disk server.
I think is best to do one full dump and many small incremental ...
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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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BackupPC incremental backup problem
Hi
I have BackupPC application in CentOS 5.. clients are windows and RHEL machines.. I could take the Fullbackup for the client mahines ..But I can't take the increental backup.. When I took the ...
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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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What options to use for Accurate bacula backup?
It's actually 2 question in one.
First is a bit more theoretically. So when specifying accurate options how does bacula figure out if a file needs to be backed up ? it's a simple AND ?
As in if the ...
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Backing up the open-source edition of Zimbra mail
Background:
We run the open-source edition of Zimbra mail (5, not 6 yet) and while it's not something that we want to encourage (prevention is better than a cure), we currently have no way of backing ...
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Is it possible with NT Backup (or MS Backup) to restore all of the latest files from a certain folder out of an incremental backup file?
I am using MS Backup on a Windows Server 2003 to backup our key folders at my work. The backup is set up as an incremental backup job where it only backs up any files that have changed since the last ...
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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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rdiff-backup command restore with date
If a backup was made using rdiff-backup command for some particular date what is the format that should be given to restore the files for that particular date.
rdiff-bakup -r "dateformat" ...
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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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rdiff-backup command to restore
Let say i have a source directory which contains The contents /foo/a /foo/b(These are the files in a directory on a remote system)
using rdiff command i make a backup as
rdiff-backup ...
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Can “tar” backup incrementally?
I have my home folder with a few GB.
Is it possible to run tar on it, create a home.tar.gz, and then for changed files, it creates home1.tar.gz only with modified files from previous tar (thus being ...
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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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How to check the last time a directory was modified in linux
I am trying to write a backup solution, which will take snapshots of a folder using hardlinks and rsync, every hour it will run though its thing, and take the snapshot. I have most of it sorted ...
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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 ...
