Questions tagged [restore]
Returning data from a backup to its original location or to its successor.
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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
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Postgres Restore Not Restoring Binary Data
This is a very urgent situation.
We have a postgres 9.4 database installed on a CentOs machine.
We are trying to take a backup from a Heroku Postgres database and restore it to the database on ...
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pg_restore changing object owner not working ,
I just try the solution found here : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31469008/postgresql-backup-database-and-restore-on-different-owner
And I still have an error on the inexistent object owner.
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SBS 2008 Bare Bone Restore
Trying to do a Mock restore for SBS on a test machine.
The machine does not see the Western Digital Essentials hard drive as a valid restore. The Drive is seen if I try to Install the OS, so I know ...
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Restore LVM if VG is not consistent (XenServer 5.6.1)
i have a VG that uses the PVs /dev/md1 and /dev/md2. Now one hdd failed in /dev/md1:
[root@xenserver1 ~]# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md1 : active raid1 sda3[0]
382320128 blocks [2/...
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Server 2008 R2 - restoring a user's roaming profile folder from Previous Versions
I want to restore a user's roaming profile folder from previous versions, but having no luck. I keep running into access rights problems.
The previous version was created with the default rights set ...
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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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Unable to restore an MSSql Database from an Azure Storage backup
We have a simple sql script to restore an MSSql DB from an Azure storage blob. We backup our PROD DB to Azure Storage.
Trying to run this script (which we swear used to work a while ago).. now errors:
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Restoring a Windows VM automatically in AWS
We have a Windows 2012 R2 VM called test01 in AWS and it's used for automatic tests. There is another server which connects to the test VM for running some tests. Sometimes the tests mess up the VM.
I'...
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rsync - restore from multiple (identical) sources to one target
Im wonder if there is way to rsync (or any other tool) from multiple identical sources to one target.
My thought was, one rsync process reads the filelist from the beginning, the other one from the ...
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ext4 restore backup: deleteino: out of range 0
I'm trying to use (dump) restore -command to restore linux ext4 file system from an incremental backup. I'm using a hanoi tower strategy to make the backups, and the dumps look like as follows, sorted ...
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I accidently deleted database folder from MySQL Server
I have a MYSQL server and I had created some database on it. Accidently, I deleted one database folder from the directory.
I have copy of that database folder saved as backup.
I stopped the server and ...
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Mysql database restore from rescue mode server
I have one server which is in rescue mode, and limited run the command even the mysqldump. I tried to restore the client database to new server by manually upload and created database but the sql ...
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Restore a chained virtualbox .vdi from backup?
I have a windows guest vm in virtualbox on a linux host. The base vdi and all snapshots are located on a SSD for performance reasons. A snapshot is taken every night and a rsync backup is made to an ...
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SQL Server 2016 Restore From URL
I'm having some trouble restoring databases in SQL Server Management Studio which have been backed up to Microsoft Azure. I have been able to create the maintenance plans which successfully create the ...
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Restore (PITR) of CloudSQL (MySQL) fails with Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes
When doing a PITR-Restore of a second generation Google CloudSQL instance, the restore fails with "Failed to Create" error. I cannot manipulate the instance clone, except reading logs and deleting it. ...
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Clone Azure VM with backup restore rename?
I have seen various methods of cloning an Azure VM that all require the original VM to be sysprepped and generalized, therefore destroying it.
Instead of this method, I just took a backup of the ...
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Postgres 9.5: Restoring dumps is very very slow
After updating server (and also the pc for additional tests) to Postgres 9.5 I tried to import PG 9.4 dumps and/or to restore 9.5 dumps:
pg_dump testdb > db.sql
psql -d testdb -f db.sql
Restoring ...
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SQL Database with offline filegroup
I'm using SQL 2008 R2 Enterprise and yesterday I had an hardware-error. During this error one disk went offline, which contains a very unimportant part (filegroup) of the database. Accidentially this ...
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What is the easiest way to restore a backup from "the future" on diverged snapshot of an original server?
Trying to be as succinct as possible, I'm in a situation with:
Windows Server 2008 Standard FE x64 Service Pack 2
with Exchange Server 2007 (fairly sure together they are branded as "Windows Small ...
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How to restore Ubuntu server on a VMWare image after disk failure?
After a disk failure on a VMWare GSX I was able to start the raid with one disk and copy the VMWare image to my ESXi server. After repairing the image with
vmkfstools -x repair /vmfs/volumes/source/...
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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 groups....
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TFS 2005 Server restore from one hardware to another
i have just performed a TFS 2005 restore from a dual server setup to a different set of duel servers
after following the installation guide for TFS 2005 and following the Restoration steps
i am ...
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Restoring files with 255+ character pathnames + Server 2000
I'm experiencing an issue when trying to restore files that have filename paths over 255 characters (in that they will not restore).
The file server is Server 2000 (ancient, I know) and the software ...
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restore -A usage
I have created a number of dump files using Linux dump(8), using the -A option to get a table of contents on disk (the backups are on tape). Now I'm trying to look into these archive files, using
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Download databasename.bak file
I have downloaded databasename.bak file from my hosting company, when i tried to restore that DB file in SQL server 2008 it is keep on giving me following error.
The media family on device 'C:\...
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Find or restore wiki pages. (Computer will not boot anymore and need the wiki pages)
A few years ago, where I work, I created a wiki for me and my co-workers. We work on a lot of old programs and to help with cross training, we put a lot of our notes in the wiki.
Sadly, the wiki was ...
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Restore ZFS Pool after a broken HDD
i lost my ZFS Pool on a trueNAS System due to a failed / broken disk
The Pool was a non mirrored Pool with 4 HDD (6-10 TB each)
I am working on a new trueNAS for backup all the files to a mirrored ...
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Why restoring a partial backup is overwriting my whole Google Cloud database?
I have two projects in Firebase/Google Cloud, one for Development and another for Production (where the app is live).
Steps I took
I exported a specific collection from the database of my Production ...
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Archival tier/mode (cost optimized) for Azure File Shares?
We have a set of pre-computed sample files (GB-range in size), in an Azure File Share (Premium/NFS). These files are only used for brief periods at a time (during release cycles of an application, ...
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Virsh corruption image, re-merge snapshot?
I have an issue with one of my images. The image is encrypted.
About three weeks ago I started a snapshot of a running image and then did a blockcommit more recently. Something has since happened to ...
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Rorke aurora raid 6 won’t load in linux
after a power failure a raid 6 won’t load in Linux without any disk failure
The message while booting is raid restored failed function: numaraid
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Optimal automated neo4j backup startegy
I'm trying to figure out the most optimal way to do automated daily backups of my > 2TBs neo4j database. I need to get a db copy and upload it to S3.
I have a neo4j cluster with 1 primary db and 2 ...
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Necessity to backup Cassandra system keyspaces
I was wondering about the necessity to backup (in order to restore of course) the system keyspaces of Cassandra.
My backup/restore procedure is the following:
backup: snapshots (nodetool) + dump of ...
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error 1258 when restoring from Actifio
I am using ActifioGo on Google Cloud and took a snapshot. When I try to restore it, I get an error message like:
1258: Cloud VM creation failed. 155: VM task failed. Error: Cloud task failed
gcp:...
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How to start a VNC viewer to display all previously saved VNC viewer desktops (that are now destroyed)?
Problem:
My current VNC viewer (let say VNC viewer 'A') resides on a machine (let say machine 'A') that need to be killed because our IT department need to rebuild the machine 'A'.
I have a lot of ...
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Cannot mount Win10 virtual disk (VHD) with no volumes - DISKPART fail
I'm attempting to mount a Windows Image Backup .vhdx file and give it a drive letter so that I can retrieve a file or two out of the backup. It has worked fine in the past, but now I cannot make it ...
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ESXi management fails, refusing connections, after copying in the boot drive from a backup
I’m writing this after having found the solution myself, because it was such a strange “gotcha” it deserves to be documented.
Although I hit this issue while doing a restore, it’s possible this could ...
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Remove OS from server and return to PXE boot
I installed Ubuntu 18.04.4 on my HP DL360 G10 servers. When they were initially installed, they were trying to PXE boot from the different network adapters. Now that I've installed an OS on them, ...
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Remotely restore a Centos 7 backup done with rsync
I have a server running CentOS 7. I did a backup to my local computer at home, using rsync (-aAXvhr and --exclude the "classic suggested folders"). So far so good.
I messed up things on my server and ...
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How to restore Hyper-V VMs from a crashed Windows 2008 R2 server?
We had a windows 2008 R2 server with a lot of VMs in it which crashed. We were able to recover the content of the "Hyper-V" folder located in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V from the crashed ...
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Data recovery failure from Azure Data Recovery Vault using MARS Agent with on-premises computer
Despite trying several times since last night, the recovery of a volume from an Azure Data Recovery Vault to a new location on the original source computer fails after approximately (but not exactly) ...
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Unable to perform Selective File Restore from a SME Server 7.5.1 backup
Customer has an old SME Server 7.5.1 server (based on CentOS 4.8). A staff member accidentally deleted her entire personal data drive, and there exists a weekly backup in the server's Backup ...
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How to keep Active Directory and SQL users from breaking after a database restore?
I'm trying to copy production CRM MSSQL data to another isolated server stack (server 2) via a backup-and-restore process. Server 2 already has most of the data after a restore I did from the ...
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Restore linux partition from remote server
I have a running server with /dev/sda1 partition and a remote server with /dev/sda1 partion also.
I want to clone the partition of running server to remote server.
I want to try this:
On remote ...
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system state restore new environment
This is a theoretical question on disaster recovery. I've looked for guides and tutorials on this specific situation and have not be able find any.
Say I have a system state backup (from a 2008R2 ...
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Protect users from accidental delete
I am currently designing an incremental, rotative backup system for a remote filesystem to be accessed over SSHFS.
There is this one aspect I still haven't figured out: Protecting the users from ...
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Restoring azure snapshot causes downtime?
I have a web app running on azure. If I, via portal, restore a backup/snapshot, will my site become unavailable for a period longer than the "warm-up"?
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Error during restore of MSSQL database - how to get version number of the one which created the bak file?
I have received a .bak file from MSSql database from a friend of mine. He is quite desperate because his system failed, and he was able to recover the last database backup.
This should be enough to ...
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Windows Server 2008r2 clonezilla image cannot boot with XenServer
I'm trying to do a P2V using clonezilla but the cloned image would not boot.
I have an IBM x3400 m3 machine running Windows Server 2008r2 as the OS. I'm turning the physical machine into a XenServer, ...
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