Returning data from a backup to its original location or to its successor.
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What causes inconsistent SQL 2K backups?
I take weekly full backups of a SQL 2000 database via vanilla Enterprise Manager.
The problem happened when I tried to restore the database. I learn that it was not up-to-date as it was pointing ...
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1answer
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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 ...
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0answers
406 views
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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Exchange 2003 / 2010 Public Folder Restore or Sync Tool needed
What tools exist to restore public folder data?
If nothing will assist in (exmerging) PF data, what tools exist to sync data between backup sets?... between forests?
It seems that pfdavadmin was ...
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1answer
637 views
DPM 2010 RC Mailbox Recovery Fails
I am testing DPM 2010 with Exchange 2010. I am attempting to restore a single mailbox from a previous backup to a Recovery Database. I created and mounting the Recovery Database on the Exchange 2010 ...
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3answers
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Network driver for Hyper-V restore from Windows Home Server
I have backed up Windows Server 2008 running virtualized on Hyper-V to a Windows Home Server 2008 SP1 (I know I should have backed up the VHD instead).
Now I need to restore the contents of the VM ...
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3answers
149 views
How to backup MySQL database?
Is there a way to backup an MySQL database so that if something wrong occurs, it will be easy to recreate the tables with the same data?
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367 views
Transfer email accounts with all mail from server to server, using IMAP
IMAP allows you to access the folder heirarchy and all emails on a given account.
There was a serverfault (pun intended) with our primary email servers and so we have to shift all email accounts to ...
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3answers
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How to transfer a postgres database to a different server
I'm planning to transfer a ~100GB Postgres database to a new server. Is it save to just copy the data directories to the new server and start up the database there, or do I need to do a dump on the ...
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2answers
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Is there any option to restore data after deleting from a MySQL table
There are some rows in a table, by mistakenly I had deleted all rows from the table and data got commited. So is there any way to restore data for that table.
I am not having backup of the database.
...
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3answers
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On Exchange 2003, Is there a limit to the number of email stores you can have?
Is there a limit on the number of "stores" you can have on an Exchange server? It seems that it takes a very long time to repair one large store and we are thinking it might be better to divide the ...
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1answer
2k views
Restore SQL Server database is hanging?
I've made a Backup from a SQL Server 9.0.4053, copied the bak file to a different computer running SQL Server 10.0.2531 and tried to restore using
RESTORE DATABASE [MyDatabase] FROM DISK = ...
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3answers
873 views
Sql Server 2005 restore from backup to the most recent file position
I'm trying to restore a database from disk to the most recent backup. There are four backup sets in the backup. I would like to restore the most recent one (taken today). I need to be able to do it ...
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4answers
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How do I extract all the files in a VHD to a hard disk including permissions?
I'd like to know wha thte best way is to make an exact copy of a vhd image and pu tit onto my hard disk. I've tried xcopy but there seems to be a number of issues rlated to permissions when doing ...
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1answer
810 views
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 ...
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3answers
296 views
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 ...
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1answer
142 views
Exchange restore from week old backup
Our exchange 2k3 database got corrupted and we couldn't revive it, so we're going to restore the last backup, which was unfortunately a week ago :-S
My question is, what happens to the cached emails ...
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1answer
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Missing Removable Storage Manager Feature
Anyone know a workaround for the instructions found here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=4220 since they are incorrect for Windows Standard 2008 R2 SP1. There ...
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1answer
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Back-up Appliances and how easy they really are
So currently I am looking at a few options to improve my company's back-up solution and I stumbled across a few ideas and quotes regarding the following:
HP x1000 G2 Network Storage System
Dell ...
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1answer
45 views
service for restoring tapes
I've got 30 to 40 LTO-1 and LTO-2 tapes that we used with BackupExec to backup our data. About a year ago we moved to another backup solution (Veeam).
My LTO drive is dying/dead, and I'd like to ...
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2answers
414 views
how to restore a mysql dump FOLDER
After having a vps crash, I asked my hosting to give me the dumped file of my drupal database. It is a folder filled with of *.frm *.MYD files of the database tables. I used to restore mydb.sql files ...
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Restore Bacula Files
Q1: Can I restore bacula files to another location? Because whenever I restore my bacula files, it goes directly to the client on which the files was backed up.
Q2: Can I restore bacula files if ever ...
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how to: rescue Data from MySQL (only files on HDD left)
After eventually managing to upgrade my debian virtual server from etch to lenny.
(Read here for the full story: http://serverfault.com/questions/168808/debian-upgrade-from-etch-to-lenny-fails)
I now ...
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1answer
2k views
How to backup a specific SQL Server Schema's table?
In my SQL Server database, I have multiple schemas. I would like to backup only a specific schema's tables to a format that can easily be restored.
Example:
[dbo].[Trucks]
[dbo].[Cars]
...
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1answer
886 views
PostgreSQL Backup/Restore
What's the best way to backup a postgresql database?
I've tried using the documentation at www.postgresql.org, but I always get integrity errors when restoring.
Right now I'm using this for backup:
...
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2answers
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SQL Backup - Restoring to different data / log files - Changing file structure…?
I'm trying to restore a BAK of a database we have, onto new, better hardware.
Here is a screenshot of the UI in Management Studio
http://twitpic.com/wmtr8/full
The existing db has an mdf, and ndf ...
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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 ...
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1answer
161 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 ...
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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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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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1answer
112 views
Recovering Exchange messages from a server clone
We recently had a problem with our Exchange 2010 backups (Backup Exec 2010), so we now only have access to a full VMware guest image of the Exchange Mailbox Server.
I have restored the VM fine, ...
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1answer
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How do I restore Public Folders in Exchange 2003 using NTBackup?
Our Exchange 2003 server had a catastrophic failure which corrupted the contents of the Exchange databases. Soft recovery failed due to excessive corruption. At 72GB, a hard recovery was not really ...
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Determine LSN of database in NORECOVERY mode
I'm restoring transaction logs to a database, but need a way to know which transaction log I should start with. Typically I'll see something like this:
The log in this backup set terminates
at ...
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1answer
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how to? Deploying a SQL 2008 backup to overwrite a database that has replication?
I am trying to figure out the proper procedure to overwrite a database with a backup of a database created on a different server. The backup has an identical schema, full text indexes, stored procs, ...
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1answer
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Sharepoint - restore single document from database level backup
Have a single Sharepoint webserver backed by a SQL 2005 server. The sharepoint server has a messed up document in a document library and I have a SQL database backup from the day before.
What are my ...
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2answers
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Exchange 2007 restore - Backup Exec Unable to Attach to a resource
I have been struggling with this one for months! Grateful for any advice.
The setup is a windows 2003 server network, 4xservers on the domain. Two exchange 2007 servers (only one with mailboxes still ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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How does one restore dump of block device in Linux
Lets say I create a dump of a block device like so
dump -0 -A L0.archive -f L0.dump /dev/sde1
Now in this case sde1 is not mounted, as to not be live. So how can I restore sde1 from the other ...
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1answer
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Windows 7 Startup Repair Disjoining System From Domain
We have recently run into the following issue :
Startup Repair : The Startup Repair tool can solve many common startup problems automatically. Startup Repair performs an exhaustive analysis to ...
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1answer
77 views
What does SQL Server do if you select more than 1 full backup when doing a restore?
I have a backup file that contains 2 backup sets. Both backup sets are full backups. When I open SQL Server Management Studio and choose "Restore..." and pick the file as my device, it lets me pick ...
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2answers
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Difficulty restoring a differential backup in SQL Server, 2 media families are expected or no files are ready for rollforward
I have sql backups copied from server A to server B on a nightly basis.
We want to move the sql server from server A to server B without much downtime, but the files are very large.
I assumed that ...
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3answers
297 views
Backup and restore MySQL database without system access
I am trying to move a database from 1 provider to another, the problem is that I don't have system access at either end (ie, no ssh), so I cannot use a mysqldump.
I have already tried using MySQL ...
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1answer
521 views
System File Missing
I have Windows SBS 2008 R2 use it as file server and i missing some system32 file, so i need to repair it but I don't know how repair/restore this file.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks
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1answer
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Windows 2008 imaging on Intel Core 2 Duo
I have a Windows 2008 system with VMware Oracle RAC and Linux CentOS as guest OS plus Visual Studio etc installed. Can anybody tell me how do I go about creating a system image so restores can be a ...
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1answer
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Problem with restoring a Blackberry configuration database on Microsoft SQL Server
I am attempting to restore a Blackberry configuration database on Microsoft SQL Server 2005. The command goes like this:
restore database besmgmt-test from disk = "C:\besmgmt-test.bak"; with move ...
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1answer
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Indefinite hang when restoring SQL 2005 database on a SQL 2008 server in EC2
I'm trying to restore a 25 GB database backup taken from a Windows 2003/SQL 2005 machine to a Windows 2008/SQL 2008 machine in the Amazon EC2 cloud, using a .bak file and the SQL Management Studio. ...
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1answer
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What tape drive reads Verbatim DC6250?
We've got some old (very) data on Verbatim DC6250 tapes that needs to be read and no hardware to do it with. What drive(s) will read these tapes?
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WSS 3.0 Backup/Restore Root Site Collection to Sub-Site of New Site Collection
Our intranet was originally setup to be at the root of its site collection. We are trying to change this so that our new internet site will live in the root and the intranet will be a sub-site.
At ...
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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 ...
