Returning data from a backup to its original location or to its successor.
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Some good practices for backing up VPS? [duplicate]
I'm new to running a VPS (just setup LAMP) and I'm doing it for fun/learning. To be honest, if everything on it was nuked it really wouldn't matter much but I want to get into the habit of backing up ...
0
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Mysql won't start after replacing data in datadir.
so I have a little problem. I had errors with our old system and was unable to backup the old databases properly so I went ahead and backed up the datadir which had all of the databases folders inside ...
0
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1answer
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How can I restore part of a mailbox from an RDB?
I need to restore only part of a mailbox that was deleted by accident. I restored the database and tried to associate it to a dummy test account but get the error
Failed
Error: The mailbox ...
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0answers
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How can I filter a Dynamic Distribution Group by Database name?
I need to create a dynamic DL to list the members of an individual database and I'm unable to get the powershell command to filter the results properly.
[PS] C:\>New-DynamicDistributionGroup -Name ...
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0answers
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Command to restore CentOS VPS to the new purchased CenOS machine (VPS or dedicated server)
I have a VPS backup. I have moved to a dedicated server.
The hosting provider has given me a tar.gz backup.
They have also setup a CentOS 5 that has initial settings. Really initial (I mean only ...
0
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1answer
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rdiff-backup -r is not working with QT
I am using rdiff-backup to get previous version of the files from server with this command:
rdiff-backup --no-hard-links --force -r "DATE" "USERNAME@IP::SERVER PATH" "CLIENT PATH"
I can do this ...
0
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1answer
106 views
Windows Server 2008R2 Backup Cannot Be Found (Unable to Restore)
I've got a bit of an issue and need some professional advice. One of our servers ended up crashing and I have a backup of the said server (Windows Server 2008 R2). The backup routinely backed up the ...
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1answer
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Automatically restore for vmdk file
I have vmdk file of Linux server that was created by ESX or ESXi by service team. Later we will do the changes on the server but we will need to restore to existing snapshot which corresponds to ...
0
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1answer
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Restoring mysql dumps from incrementals
This is probably bordering on a silly question, but if I recently restored a Full mysql DB dump via cat dump.mysql |mysql dbname to a new instance of mysql in order to migrate; and I want to restore ...
0
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2answers
264 views
How can I restore a microsoft sql server database backup to postgres?
I need to take a Microsoft SQL Server database backup (dump) file and import/restore into a PostgreSQL database. Does anybody have some sort of transform script (maybe a perl/sed/awk script) that ...
0
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Mac OS-X time machine and local disc - how to see differences [closed]
I'm not sure if I lost few files.
May be they were deleted accidentally from my macbook.
Actually I did a back up with time machine two days ago.
Do you know any way, may be comparing the time ...
0
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0answers
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Plesk Backup Strategy + Backup own configs for installed Programs
I'm administering a server which is managed by plesk. Also there are additional programs installed, like ldap for example. And there has been a ton of changes to configurations around apache, like ...
0
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1answer
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Restore mysql databases that is created using direct admin
PS: I'm sorry my description is a bit long. I am just trying to give all the information.
At first, I was not able to login to direct admin. I research on the web on what are the causes and found out ...
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1answer
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Restore data from overwritten LVM
I lost all of my data (8 TB) which I collected over the past few years yesterday because I made some seriuos mistakes during the remounting of my LVM.
I run a XenServer5.6 installation with additional ...
0
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1answer
157 views
How should I Backup / Restore my Ubuntu server onto a different host?
I have an Ubuntu Server hosted with Amazon Web Services, but I'd like to back it up, and know that I can restore it to a different server. (local dev server, competing cloud server, ec2 server in a ...
0
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0answers
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What, *specifically* does Windows 8's “Refresh Your PC” option delete and retain? [closed]
I'm asking this question because I could only find non-technical, and non-specific, answers no more detailed than the options given by the OS. If you have an issue with your Windows 8 Pro machine and ...
2
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1answer
83 views
FreeBSD restore of /rescue
I'm running a restore from a previous backup of my FreeBSD system, and run into trouble when restoring / (excluding mount-points). The problem is that /rescue fills the / partition (to the extent that ...
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Exchange 2010 Recovery: Mailbox not found using Restore-Mailbox
Exchange 2010 SP1 Update Rollup 5 server information store database was restored to a Recovery Database using EMC Networker successfully. The Recovery Database is in a mounted state with mailboxes ...
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0answers
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Restore-MailboxDatabase and disk space
When you apply the Restore-MailboxDatabase command, and specify log/data file locations, does it simply mount the files that are already there, or does it have to copy them over somewhere else? If it ...
1
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1answer
162 views
Restore Exchange mail after upgrade and decommission?
I recently upgraded our Exchange 2007 environment to Exchange 2010 and decommissioned the Exchange 2007 servers.
We have almost 2 years worth of backups for our Exchange 2007 environment that would ...
1
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1answer
235 views
Restore Zimbra mailbox with zmmailbox connection refused
i'm trying to import mailboxes with
zmmailbox -z -m "$user@$domain.com" postRestURL “//?fmt=tgz&resolve=reset” $SOURCE
but always i get:
zclient.IO_ERROR (Refused connection)
i have 3 days ...
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2answers
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Recover MySQL tables from frm files
I'm desperate, and hoping some kind soul can rescue me! I'm dealing with restoring a completely crashed server. Everything is back up except for there's an issue with one domain which uses MySQL (no ...
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2answers
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Active Directory disaster recovery with DPM
I have a sort of catch-22 question here.
Suppose I'm using Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (2010 or 2012, it works the same way) to backup, amongst various other things, my Active ...
1
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1answer
63 views
Can I restore master to a different name as a user database
I need to look at the contents of sysdatabases from an older backup of master, but I do not want to overwrite my master databse. Can I use the rename option of the restore command to restore master ...
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2answers
118 views
windows server 2008 R2 restore
i have a win 2008 R2 server machine, i am running tests on.
i need to be able once test is finished to restore ALL DATA to an initial state,
i mean everything : registries, files and such (as though ...
0
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2answers
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Restore SQL db?
I have a small db that i need to restore back in time. Meaning i have the db running now, but some data have been overwritten, wo i need to restore a version from last night for instance.
But when i ...
2
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1answer
195 views
Full server backup solution (to remote windows share)
I have a working server with a raid > lvm > dmcrypt stack. I would like a backup solution which solves the following problems:
Changes only: Only transfer daily change, not the whole X Terrabytes ...
0
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1answer
170 views
Extracting httpdocs from Plesk Panel 9.5.4 Webserver backup file
Good day,
I am having problems manually extracting domains from Plesk 9.5 backup that was FTPed onto my back up server. I have followed the article http://kb.parallels.com/en/1757 using method 2. The ...
2
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1answer
437 views
Restore SQL Server 2008 db without affecting users
When I restore a db in Sql Server 2008 R2 from data on another server, it makes a mess of the users. I have a Windows User and MsSql Login named Web_SqlA on both machines. Before the Restore, Web_SqlA ...
2
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0answers
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Windows Restore fails with “The Volume ID could not be found” error, what to do?
On my server with 3 disks, one disk died and I'm trying to do a restore. The server looked like this:
[DISK1] | C:, main system drive <-- this one died
[DISK2] | D:, data disk
[DISK3] | ...
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Linux software Raid LVM restore volume group
first of all: excuse my bad english :)
We use a Archlinux server with 3 HDD in software raid 1 mode. There should be two lvm extended partition from which i think they should be work in volume ...
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1answer
145 views
Backing up and restoring remote servers
I have backup exec 2010 R2. Going to be upgrading to 2012 here in the next day or two. I have several servers onsite and 4 remote servers. To backup the 4 remote servers to the tape library device ...
3
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1answer
729 views
windows 2003 server missing dllcache folder, how to restore?
Recently our Windows 2003 server has started giving a "Could not start the security center service error". I looked into this and realized a windows dll was missing called WSCSVC.dll
I then realized a ...
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1answer
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Accessing tapes at the Windows Server 2008 R2 with NTBackup backups
Does anyone know any solution how to access tapes at the Windows Server 2008 R2, tapes written with NTBackup from earlier Windows versions ???
I appreciate free or low cost solution to access such ...
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1answer
139 views
Recover amanda backup without configuration files
I have inherited a bunch of old backup tapes that contain some data that needs to be recovered. The problem is that the amanda implementation used to create these backups has since been obliterated.
...
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1answer
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ubuntu /dev folder restore
I am a linux fresher. I make a folder /dev/test/ in Ubuntu. When I rebooted the server, the folder /dev/test/ was disappear. Can restore the folder? Why?
Thank you.
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1answer
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linux + Backup & Restore tool for Blade IBM/HP machines [closed]
target - Backup & restore tool that can be put on a PXE server so that a client can be booted via network and support IBM/HP blade machines
I hope that I ask the right question, there are allot ...
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1answer
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DPM Disaster Recovery
I'm using Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (2010, currently evaluating 2012) to backup my environment, and I have two questions about the disaster recovery process in the event of a ...
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3answers
420 views
how to get a linux image and restore it on another computer
I am trying to use dd command to accomplish complete restore of a linux image on a new computer. I have two partitions sda1(main) and sda2(extended), I took a backup of mbr image using:
dd ...
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1answer
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How to restore a certificate from a backup
I have an authenticode certificate living in a backup created with Drive Snapshot, which is a byte level backup of the c: partition from my development machine.
I need to export that certificate.
I ...
3
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1answer
661 views
What are the risks in backing up private keys on services like Dropbox?
I have a couple of private keys that I use to administer Amazon EC2 instances.
I recently lost these keys when I did a re-install of my computer and I found out that the CD-RW I'd backed them up to ...
0
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2answers
729 views
How to backup a linux server running a software raid
I would like to backup a production server running ubuntu 10.04 LTS on a software raid. In order to to that I have rebooted into a rescue system which is running in RAM.
df -h on ubuntu looks like ...
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1answer
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How to make a full backup of an ubuntu root server with tar?
I am running ubuntu 10.04 LTS on a remote root server and almost the same setup on a development server over virtualbox. My goal is to backup the remote root server to an ftp-account. In case the hard ...
2
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5answers
798 views
Restore Hyper-V image to bare metal
We run Hyper-V on our Win2008R2 server with a DC and Terminal Server as virtualised machines.
We're finding that our current usage necessitates a new server to give our terminal server more ...
4
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1answer
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Server 2008 stuck in reboot loop “Configuring Updates: Stage 3 of 3”
Our server performed some updates last night and this morning we came in to find it stuck in a boot -> "Applying System Configurations" -> "Configuring Updates: Stage 3 of 3. 0%" -> reboot loop.
Safe ...
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1answer
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Restore utility error
I want to restore a .bkf file created on SBS 2003, to a SBS 2011. I have downloaded and instaled restore utility, but I am getting this error
Unable to write data to c:\foldername This security id ...
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1answer
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Restore a deleted workflow in Sharepoint
A colleague of mine just did something rather stupid and deleted a vital workflow on a production machine running Sharepoint 2010.
Since we're not hosting the machine, there's no backup (yes yes, I ...
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1answer
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how to properly compare the same two large files on two different servers byte for byte?
So I have two servers with the same 10gb gzip file on each.
On one server it unzips fine. On the other there are crc errors. The file sizes are the exact same.
the systems are exactly the same ...
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MSSQL 2008 R2 Restore VSS
We have a Windows 2008 R2 server which has 2 disks of which one is used as a backup disk for Windows Backup with VSS enabled. We also have MSSQL 2008 R2 running on this server.
If I want to restore a ...
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Restore MySQL Databases from File backups, not MySQL Export
I've got a Windows Server and I get Windows Server Backup to backup all the files every day. I don't however have a system image so I cannot use that.
I've tried just copying the database files into ...
