Questions tagged [backup-restoration]
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Backup Exec restore of Exchange 2003 stalled
We are restoring just the public folders database using Backup Exec 9.1.
The main EDB and STM files restored okay. However, the byte count has stalled and now there are tons of .IFS files in the ...
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Complete backup / restore solution Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0
Let me start by saying that if I've missed out on some very basic papers, KBs or anything, feel free to link me in the right direction. I've checked some threads here and haven't found the answer to ...
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How do I restore Exchange 2003 public folder into 2007?
Our box running Windows Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2003 was recently replaced with a box running Windows Server 2008 and Exchange Server 2007. Data was migrated across from the old server before ...
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Restoring applications from image based backups?
When using an image-based backup solution like ShadowProtect, Replay, TrueImage, etc, how would one go about restoring an application like, say, Sharepoint?
I can think of a couple different ...
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How to do scheduled Linux server backup
I need to organize automated backup for databases, websites, ftp, email, etc. at Ubuntu 9.04 and since I've never done it before, I'm looking for places to learn. What needs to be done, what (free) ...
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File-server backup with multiple file-versions [duplicate]
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Network-Backup-Software with file versioning and web-interface
Dear All,
I'm using a single Windows Server 2008 to share data between my WinXP and MacOSX - computers. There ...
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Problems with USB-Devices using VDR
I'm using VDR on vSphere4. It works sucessfully. I've already backuped several VMs with VDR and I like it very much. But now we got a problem. We have 2 VMs, using an USB-Device Server with a stick ...
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VDR - Trouble writing to destination volume, error -1020 (sharing violation)
Using VMware Data Recovery 1.1, backing up to CIFS share and getting this error
1/18/2010 8:55:31 AM: Performing incremental back up of disk "Lun VM/VM-DB1-flat.vmdk" using "SCSI Hot-Add"
1/18/2010 8:...
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which is the best drive backup software [closed]
Iam using window 2008 server on drive C
and then on D drive i have all virtual machines folder.
I also have two more internal SATA drives
i want to backup the whole HD i.e drive C and D.
I like the ...
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MySQL data disappearing after restoring from backup
I recently had to move from one hosting provider to another (if you're in the UK don't use Easyspace for your VPS!) as my previous host dumped my server without warning.
Fortunately I had remote ...
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sql server backup
Is there any way to to restore a backup created on sql server 2005, onto sql server 2000?
Edit: all I have is the .bak file, no access to the original database.
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Network Restore of OS to Non-System Drive - is it possible?
I've got an intriguing goal with an equally intriguing problem to overcome: how to restore an OS to a set of blank disks attached to a running computer. This computer is running the very OS I want to ...
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Restore SQL Server database to new server and spilt primary to file groups?
Thanks in advance for all help.
We are building a new SQL Server 2008 prod box. I need to take the data from the current prod box and restore on the new one.
I would like to get the databases set up ...
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Extract duplicity difftar files manually
I have a duplicity backup which i am not able to recover with duplicity.
By calling duplicity file:///path/to/backups /path/to/dir, it returns "Local and Remote metadata are syncronized, no sync ...
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Cloning SQL Database via Backup-Restore: 'Restoring...' takes a looong time
I needed an exact copy of a database under another name. I choose for cloning SQL Database via Backup-Restore, using SQL Mgt Studio 2008.
Firstly, when restoring the database; I received an error.
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How to ignore hard drives size with Windows Server Backup (Win-2008) restore?
I used Windows Server Backup to backup my 640GB boot drive. Only about 30GB is used, and the backup was very fast.
Now I am trying to restore the image to a 500GB hard drive but it is saying that the ...
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SQL Server : Restore Database; Failed. "error not found"
I have just installed SQL Server 2005 on a fresh machine, and I'm trying to import 2 databases from one of my servers. This has worked fine for a box that I did this morning but now I'm getting some ...
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Partition backup software
I've used Ghost in the past and creating and recovering partitions was easy. Then I tried Acronis and it's a mess. Too many options, menus mixed-up. The problem is that the partition that I want to ...
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Linux - What directories should I exclude when backing up a server?
I'm backing up a Linux server and storing it on another server.
I began with a simple
rsync -aPh --del server.example.com:/ /mnt/backup
Then someone pointed out that I shouldn't back up /proc, ...
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Restore an Exchange 2007 mailbox from a backed .edb file
Currently testing backing up and restoring with Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008.
I have a 'clean shutdown' backup of an Exchange 2007 database. For the exercise I have deleted a users mailbox in ...
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Versioned storage for large files (PSDs, FLVs etc)
We're currently scouting for solutions to a versioning/storage problem for large creative works. The designers themselves seem to want SVN, but this seems like an inappropriate mechanism. Files are ...
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Backup software - for servers and mobile windows systems
I'm implementing a backup system for our network, and finding it somewhat confusing wading through all the options to match them against our needs.
We want the backups stored on hard-drive storage on ...
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Decompress a PSC File
I need to restore a database that was backed up using navicat's compressed backup feature. But on the restore, there's an error coming up on one of the tables.
I can't look at the SQL statements in ...
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What would be an ideal outsourced/third party offsite backup vault solution? [closed]
Looking to find a service that offers rsync or dirvish abilities to do auto backups of my website and all content and databases into something like a data vault. Basically, rather than just a CDN to ...
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Restore data only from Time Machine
I'll have following scenario:
1, I use Time Machine to backup my data from my Mac, I excluded Applications folder and some others, so I really backup data only
2, I'll buy new Snow Leopard
3, I want ...
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How do I recover a WinXP system from Norton Systemworks Save & Restore?
I'm helping a friend with a dead hard drive on a Windows XP machine. He has full backups with Norton Systemworks' Save & Restore. Our hope is to restore a backup to a new hard drive without having ...
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Backup Exec 11D and Thecus N5200 Pro
I have a Thecus N5200 Pro integrated into my Windows 2003 AD network. My current backup solution involves Backup Exec 11D but this requires a running service for windows boxes or a similar daemon for ...
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Automated bare-metal recovery practices for small network
I have several machines which are on a small network with one DC and 3 to 5 workstations on the network at any given time. These are all setup with DNS and AD on the same server. I want the ability ...
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How do data recovery firms recover data from a "dead" hard disk?
The hard drive in my laptop just died, and it's been about a week since I ran a full backup.
I know there are companies that specialize in data recovery from dead hard disks. I'm curious how they do ...
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Looking for a script to restore a SQL server backup
I'm looking for a script to restore a SQL Server 2005 backup. Ideally the script will have the following features
handle backup files on a network location
Handle different file structure of source ...
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MIgrate Ubuntu to new hard drive?
I lost a secondary hard drive in an Ubuntu Server this week. No problem restore data to the primary driver and one the way we go! Wouldn't that be nice if it was the end of the story!
I am later this ...
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Restore Mdf file from a crashed hard disk
I have a MS SQL server 2005 database on my database server. Recently the database server crashed, so I need to move the database to a new server. Is there anyway to restore teh mdf file from a crashed ...
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How to permanently change where MSSQL stores database information?
Using SQL Server Management console for SQL Server 2005 we go to
Server Properties --> Database Settings -->
change database default location from c:\blah\blah to E:\MSSQL\DATA
We restart ...
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Is this script comprehensive enough to restore IIS and Security Settings?
We want to make sure that the script below will capture all needed configuration settings to restore on a new machine IIS and all Security Settings.
'This script will dump a daily system state backup ...
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Backup and Restore ADAM database
I was trying to backup and restore an ADAM database to a different server the other day. I copied all files under "Program Files/Microsoft ADAM" folder to the same path in the destination server and ...
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Rebuilding Exchange 2003 from only backups
Here is an interesting scenario that I'm going to be dealing with:
A single server hosting an Active Directory domain and an Exchange 2003 server, with several dozen mailboxes. (yes I realize this ...
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SBS 2003 Can't Boot after restore from backup
I have a problematic SBS 2003 installed on a Dell PowerEdge SC430 server. The server has two SATA drives originally configured as a RAID-1 mirror using software RAID (i.e. no RAID controller). After a ...
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In a managed environment, should user PCs have local external HD backups?
Our environment manages thousands of user PCs, provides high-end secure file servers. Users (from new staff to executive-level) are urged to store data to the file servers and generally do so. PCs ...
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Looking for a free and reliable alternative to Norton Ghost [closed]
I am looking for ways to restore my system to a previous state easily.
I am using Windows Vista and ubuntu.
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Back up Windows 2008 SBS to iSCSI disk
I've almost no experience with SBS 2008, so please excuse my noob question!
SBS 2008 only has the most basic backup utility built in as far as I can tell (similar to Vista), and it will only back up ...
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SharePoint - Do DPM and SQL backups affect each other?
I am trying to clear up an ugly maintenance plan on SharePoint databases that happen to also be backed up by Data Protection Manager (which is setup to take snapshots at 15-minute intervals). The ...
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Perform a full time-machine restore without an install disc?
I have a computer with a blank hard drive where, fortunately, the user has a complete Time Machine backup.
Unfortunately, my Leopard install Disc was eaten by an unhappy disk drive, and while I do ...
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Restore Virtualbox snapshot from backup
I have a .SAV and .VHD file from a backup. Since these files were created the revert to snapshot feature was used, by design this deleted everything since the snapshot was created. However I now need ...
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Moss 2007 Backup and Recovery
What are the best solutions for disaster recovery of a Moss farm? Outside of Microsoft's Data Protection manager, what is there?
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Correct procedure for preventing a spid from rolling back
Today I had a situation where I wanted to cancel an update to a table and several indexes and immediately restore back the database from a backup.
I issued a kill command to kill the updating SPID. ...
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Toast vs Disk Util? [closed]
I have several users that are insisting on the purchase of Toast. They will be using it to make backups of disks at possibly re-burn them if needed. I have used Disk Utility for that function. At this ...
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Restore multiple files with rdiff-backup
Has anyone written a script to restore multiple files/directories at once using rdiff-backup on windows? Single files work fine.
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Best practices for backup checking?
It is a common situation, when administrator makes system for automatic backuping and forgets it. Only after a system fails administrator notices, that backup system has broken before or backups are ...