Questions tagged [backup]
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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How to compress a directory, using tar, and then delete the directory it compressed?
On my server there is an application directory that I need to make a full copy of it but the copy takes up a lot of space, I need to compress it and then remove it.
I already use the command
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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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Borg asking for key file when upgrading unencrypted repository
Evening,
So i have an unencrypted borg backup repository which im trying to upgrade. The problem is, when running the borg backup command borg replies with "no key file found for repository"....
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Does creating a machine Image stops the VM Instance in google cloud?
I have to make an image of a VM instance on Google Cloud, if I use the Create Machine Image option will this shut down the VM instance while it is creating, I'm reading the documentation on it but it ...
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How to properly make a backup of a virtual machine using QEMU only
This questions asks how one can make a backup of a live virtual machine.
The accepted answer says it is possible with QEMU/libvirt.
My question (since the answer doesn't explain it) is how to do a ...
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Backup software that can split files to 3 separate disks [closed]
I have 3To of storage on a RAID5 configuration, and I want to setup a regular backup of these 3To of data on external disks that I would bring to a separate physical location (my office). I have 3 ...
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Tar backup command for exclude backup files & cache & include only httpdocs subdirectories
I am looking for a tar command that meets the following requirements:
I want to exclude all files ending with: backwpup & .zip (in between and before can be any e.g. uploads/123backwpup-123.zip)
I ...
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Troubles with Exporting Dovecot Post Boxes
My postfix/dovecot mailserver runs well, but I want to migrate to another server and my problem: I'm not able to export post boxes from my dovecot:
My command (I replaced the email address):
dsync -f -...
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Linux immutable backup repository deployment architecture best practice?
What are the Linux distributions that are compatible with the Immutable repository?
Can you give me some advice on the best hardware or virtual machine configurations to deploy a large backup ...
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Automysqlbackup does not use the configured password
I have automysqlbackup installed on debian. I added USERNAME and PASSWORD to /etc/default/automysqlbackup, but when automysqlbackup runs, I get the output:
/etc/cron.daily/automysqlbackup:
ERROR 1045 (...
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backup /home over sftp - root
My current task is to set up a (remote) backup (using rsync/rsnapshot) over sftp of /home (linux). Obviously some files are read only for the owner (ie -r-------; and should stay that way) so i guess ...
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Best way to backup a WordPress site on EC2 instance
My WordPress site is sitting on a single EC2 instance. My site has 60GB worth of files and a 800MB database size. My site is running out of space just by running the Duplicator plugin to back it up. ...
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Data reconciliation for applications
I need to create a plan for a catastrophic data loss scenario where I need to recover some services (multiple apps each) from bare metal using data backups.
The process (i believe) requires the ...
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cron / crontab : auto delete oldest backup files when new files get backed up, only if disk space is near capacity
I am using crontab (on Ubuntu Server 20.04) to automatically create daily backups of a text file and storing them on an external hard drive. I am using the following crontab to create my backups:
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IIS backup is backing up old history not new live data from IIS (All sites and Pools not new)
Windows 2016 Core Servers / IIS10
==IMPORTANT==
The backup seems to be backing up OLD data.
It seems that it is picking up on history instead of backing up the LIVE data.
This will explain WHY it is ...
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Does daily rsync OS backup push SSD drives to its limits?
Since past year I'm using Rsnapshot (which uses rsync) to do my daily laptop Linux Ubuntu OS backup to a local NAS.
Some months ago I started having serious problems with the OS stability. It seems ...
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How to backup two folders with duplicity?
I want to backup a few folders with duplicity and exclude the rest using a --include-globbing-filelist. Let's say to make it simple I want to backup /first and /second but not /third or any other (new)...
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rsync: updated files to new folder
rsync allows to copy/synchronize folders without transferring files that already have been synchronized before and that did not change since last run. For that, you typically have to specify the ...
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Puzzling issue with Hyper-V backup (volume shadow copy) integration and DPM 2019
I have a Microsoft DPM 2019 server that's been backing up various Windows Hyper-V VMs without issue until recently. No apparent changes have been made, but now a particular VM is failing its backup ...
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Before-snapshot script hook for Windows guest on Proxmox?
I have a Proxmox server setup with a Windows 10 guest that will be running MSSQL Express. The Windows guest has QEMU guest agent installed and working. For backups, I have a separate server running ...
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Cron Job Shell Backup file: Permission Failed
Ive been trying to create a Cron Job to Ultimatly back up the Data within my Public Html File
backup-JMORetail.sh Code
#!/bin/sh
NOW=$(date +'%Y.%m.%d')
tar cfz /home/jmoretai/Back-Ups_Local/...
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Does NetApp allow third party tools to get access to the volume directly?
NetApp has a notion of
logical storage,
volume used and available space
The logical storage deviates from volume used and available space, because the used space has storage optimizations like ...
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Use flock to back up sqlite?
I want to back up an SQLite database file without making a local copy to avoid flash memory wear. I'd also like to avoid moving the partition to a snapshottable file system like LVM.
I figured I could ...
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Hyper-V Production Checkpoint issue with Debian 11 Linux VMs
Just added the first Linux VM (Debian 11) to Hyper-V Server Core 2016. An error is raised while exporting VM with
Get-VM ... | Export-VM -CaptureLiveState CaptureDataConsistentState ...
The message ...
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Can I run a Select query on an SQL dump?
Here is my issue. I've a backup system, that creates an SQL Dump from a DB cluster every day. Works fine, yade yade. The cluster died one day and we realized, the sql dump were wrong for the past 1 ...
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What happens if the only DC fails?
I recently started an internship in System Administration and I am currently tasked with researching and potentially setting up an on Premise Active Directory in our company.
Lets say, I am running ...
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How to snapshot a local Ubuntu machine
I have an old laptop with an external HDD as a home server.
The server runs Ubuntu 22.04. It is my DNS server (pi-hole), file server (smb), a web server for local sites, a bunch of python scripts on ...
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Why does cdrecord alter my image when writing to CD ROM and how can I avoid it?
I want to use optical media for backups and hence created a luks image equivalent to that of a 80 min CD-ROM and recorded it twice using the cdrecord
# first run
$ cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 image.luks
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How does Azure Backup backup running VMs?
We are planning on implementing Azure Backup backups of our VMs but I'm struggling to find any documentation that clearly states how the backups are taken?
I see snapshots are being taken but how does ...
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restic: display file operations EXCEPT "unchanged" entry
restic has a -vv option that allows tracking operations like:
unchanged /export/screenlog.0
unchanged /export/public/acme
new /export/public/newfile
modified /export/public/testfile, saved in ...
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What CLI tool helps rotate my mysqldump files on cloud storage: daily backups, weekly, and monthly backups with deletion?
I need to backup my mysqldump files from my database server, daily. I need to retain:
daily backups for a week
weekly backups for a month
monthly backups for a year
yearly backups after that
My ...
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How to efficiently backup shares (ZFS). Folder structure might change but media usually do not
The Issue: I have 18 large shares (each 24TBs), that contain lots of big media files. Mostly the media files themselves stay untouched. However, sometimes the folder structure changes, and thus my ...
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"Append only" file attribute triggers incremental backup of file
"Append only" attribute set with this command chattr -R +a /mnt/A causes bacula to keep incrementally backing up files, even if they did not change.
I was able to determine this by comparing ...
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ADO on premise recovery scenario (domain controller, app tier + db tier)
We are thinking about disaster recovery scenarios of one of our services and I am currently lacking some knowledge or sources to further investigate.
We have an Azure DevOps On Premise server that has ...
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How to properly back up and restore a user profile in Mac OSX?
Id like to back up my user profile and restore it because I am planning to delete the user but want a backup in case I screw up or need some data I didn’t realize.
I’ve created a dmg file like so:
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Improve my actual docker backup system
I've a personal documentation/git environment running on vmware.
I'm actually making manual backup on an offline media with Duplicati (that I love!)
I backup the entire virtual machine folder! And i ...
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Bacula TLS negotiation failed
Problem with Bacula, the Director and storage on the same host (...151), client on another host (...139). I don't use TLS/SSL between director and client, when i run the job i get an error. How can ...
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backup snapshot vultr linux host to local Windows
Vultr Linux snapshots are falling too expensive as the number of servers we acquired has grown.
Thus, I wish to create a snapshot/backup (entire OS along with open ports, swap memory, and installed ...
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How to get SNMP on HP StoreOnce working?
I'm trying to add HPE StoreOnce 3640 Gen4 to the Nagios using SNMP v3 (other SNMP versions aren't supported in this device), and I'm stuck. It has the SW version 4.2.1-1942.21.
This is not the first ...
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ETCD restore granularity
I'm studying some backup and restore solutions for Kubernetes and Openshift, typically with Velero. So, I'm not familiar with ETCD backups, but I would like to ask about the granularity level of etcd ...
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is it advisable to perform a catalog/database backup with RunAfterJob and store catalog backup history?
I read how important it is to have an updated catalog backup for bacula
This is my solution while setting up a full/incremental/differential archive backup job:
RunAfterJob = "/etc/bacula/...
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bacula: is file deleted after file retention period is passed?
volume retention period is set to 365 days
job retention period is set to 180 days
file retention period is set to 60 days
if file is unchanged on drive for 60 days, will I be able to recover it ...
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Is the approach of backuppc (or similar backup architecture) safe in principle?
I'm looking over a physical server that runs VMware and 4-6 VMs (mostly Linux but also Windows10/11). Currently I'm backuping only 2 Linux VMs (the others aren't critical), by mounting an NFS share ...
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NAS de-duplication best practices - how do hardlinks handle compression?
I just joined a SMB as their first full-time tech guy, and the company's backup architecture is a mess. Leaving aside all other issues (of which there are many), the office has multiple different NAS ...
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MS SQL maintenance plan not running if server is off
I am maintaining an MS SQL 15.0 (2019) server, and part of that includes a nightly backup of the databases. I have a Maintenance Plan that is run by the SQL server agent just after midnight each ...
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Backup from S3 to S3
I'd like to backup multiple S3 buckets into another S3 buckets. It seems like most backup tools only support S3 as a destination, but not as a source e.g. restic. The backup should support pruning, ...
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Monitoring tool for remote borg repository
I am currently using Borg Backup which is connected to a remote repository hosted in Hetzner. Borg is being run daily via cron. While I place some log files to see if backup is working, I would like ...
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MySQL Restore from Backup Error: Cannot start InnoDB The tail of the system tablespace is missing
I am trying to move my InnoDB per table database to another server. I got the backup via mariabackup. I had another databases when I was taking the backup so I just took a backup of the database I'd ...
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Nautilus Not Copying Files Correctly?
I am backing approx 130GB of data and noticed that some files did not get copied over correctly.
The files were copied via the nautilus file manager and most without problems, but I noticed some were ...
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What has happened to veeam instant recovery VM Files?
Recently, I get one of my servers to be repaired. Since one of VM on this server(server A) was very important to us, I made an instant recovery from my backups to another server(server B).
After one ...
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