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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 backup VMWare ESXi using free tools?

What do I need to do to establish backup of ESXi 3.5 or 4 server? It is my understanding that the server runs Linux, so as far as I understand the backup sequence should be: create a snapshot of VM copy files to a backup location delete snapshot I…
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Backup of running KVM qcow2 VPS

I want a robust method of taking backup of KVM VPS of qcow2 file, while running. After searching for a long time I found that we can use rsync for live backup. I used following command for rsync: rsync -avh /vms/base.qcow2 /backup/backup.qcow2 It…
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Speeding up rsync over smb

I'm backing up a Linux box over SMB to a NAS. I mount the NAS locally and then I rsync a lot of data (100GB or so). I believe it's taking an awfully long time to do it: more than 12 hours. I would expected to be much faster once everything is copied…
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Can NetApp Snapshots be used as Backups?

Our shop relies very heavily on NetApp Volume Snapshots for backups. We use traditional agent-based tape backups for some of our data but by and large we rely on the Snapshots for the majority of our systems. Furthermore we do not have a rigorous…
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VirtualBox - use in small office and backing up

I run a small office consisting of a 8 man development team and a couple of managers. We're thinking of moving to a hardware setup whereby we have 1 single powerful server running several VirtualBox VMs - one for Samba fileshare acting as DC,…
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View Current State of Keepalived

Is there a way to view the current state (Master/Backup) using a command line inside a server instance? Cheers
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How can I backup an SQL Server database using Windows Server Backup?

Apparently Windows Server Backup has some support for backup of SQL Server databases: Ability to recover applications. Windows Server Backup uses VSS functionality that is built into applications like Microsoft® SQL Server® to protect application…
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How to (properly) back up a live QEMU/KVM VM?

I'm currently engineering a backup solution for KVM VM's as an additional measure to traditional backups. Unfortunately, all currently (August 2013) existing solutions I came across so far either: do not ensure a consistent backup of the VM…
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Best way to do Subversion backups?

What is the best way to do Subversion backups (on a Debian based server). Is it to use svnadmin? svnadmin dump /path/to/reponame > reponame.dump Or maybe just to tar the dir where the repositories are? tar -cvzf svn.backup.tar.gz…
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How to hot backup/snapshot an ext4 partition (in the absence of LVM)?

I'm currently tasked with bringing up a existing server to (at least more) professional standards - with as little disruption as possible to end-users. To have a proper rollback, I need to backup the existing server's root fs, which is currently…
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How do you backup a SAN?

long time reader, first time asker :) I have been reading up a lot on iSCSI and SANs in general and I believe I have been able to answer most of my questions and concerns on the topic, but this one remains: How do you "backup a SAN?" What follows…
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Looking for an open source email archiving application

I'm looking for an open source application that will archive my email. It might do this by logging in to my POP3 account on a regular basis and copying the emails across, or it might just read my Unix mbox/maildir file/directory directly on the mail…
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Is this a valid backup strategy for MongoDB?

I've got a single dedicated server with a MongoDB database of around 10GB. I need to do daily backups, but I can't have downtime with the database. Is it possible to use a replica set on a single disk (with 2 instances of mongod running on different…
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Migrate live server

I'm in trouble, I have a running server with the usual services (httpd, mail, sql), and looks like I must be really fast to prevent total data loss (my RAID array failed, so I'm depending on a single hdd now). The whole system built on HowtoForge's…
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How can I backup multi-gigabyte databases in MySQL? Bonus points for speedier restores

I have a 4GB database in MySQL. How can I back it up? Furthermore, is there a way that I can speed up the restoration process in the event that I need to recover? I currently use a cron job every night that calls mysqldump to dump everything and I…
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