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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 ensure dbs are all in sync when restored?

In large server environments, how do you handle the issue of backing up SQL Server dbs which may not be in sync with other dbs they rely on? So if I back up DB1 from a server, and it uses another db which is not backed up, doing a restore when the…
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Recommend automated night ftp backups for windows machine

My web server was messed up and the host only has a 1 night archive. It took me a day to find the problem so my backup is no help. In order to avoid this in the future I am going to do a nightly backup, but I need a recommendation of some free…
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Most cost efficient way to backup Subversion data to S3?

I'm looking at using S3 as an offsite backup repo for my Subversion database. When I dump my SVN database, it's about 10 gigabytes. I would like to avoid the charge of uploading that data repeatedly. The anatomy of this large file such that new…
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is ROBOCOPY a good form of backup as a tool?

seeing how it does not do a write verify unless scripted (or is it needed?) is it a decent option to dump a few folders to another server? i am just worried about whether the data, after being copied, might be corrupted but you would not be aware of…
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How do I pull a backup from a Linux server to my Windows PC using rsync?

I'm currently using sftp to download nightly backups (.tar.gz) from my web host to my desktop computer. I think I'd like to switch to rsync to minimize the bandwidth (and time). I have cygwin installed on my PC, but don't use it for much. I have…
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How to automated VMWare Workstation backup?

I run VMWare Workstation 6.5 on WinXP. How can I script a way to automatically clone my VM images? I've read about the "vmware-cmd" tool but believe that is only available with VMWare ESX, not Workstation.
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TSM TDP for Exchange backup - ANS0326E

Heres the stack Server - AIX - 5.3.0 BAclient - NT 32 bit 5.5.2.0 TDP for Exchange - 5.2.1 Backups are failing with ANS0326E (RC41) This node has exceeded its maximum number of moint points MAXNUMMP on the node is 1, which is the same as the other 2…
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What files do I need to recover MySQL databases from Ubuntu?

I have a now non-bootable install of Ubuntu. What files do I need to copy to backup all of the MySQL databases (including database users and permissions)?
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Backup Windows Sharepoint Services

I installed WSS 3.0 as part of Search Server Express 2008 installation package, and used SQL Server 2005 Standard as backend database, all of them in one server. What's the best backup strategy for me? I've already upload a lot of document in the…
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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 performing a differential backup and restore would…
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SQL Server transaction log backups,

I have a question regarding the transaction log backups in sql server 2008. I am currently taking full backups once a week (Sunday) and transaction log backups daily. I put full backup in folder1 on Sunday and then on Monday I also put the 1st…
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What is the best practice to backup OpenVZ containters?

I'm running Linux server with OpenVZ containers. I back up data with rdiff-backup in two steps (to minimalize downtime). First step is on live containter, and second step is on suspended container. Is there a better way to back up OpenVZ…
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Alternatives to Zmanda for MySQL backups?

I don't have a problem with Zmanda but i wonder if there is any better or popular solutions out there other than doing it by hand. My requirements are: Online backups The tool should decide to use mysqldump or mysqlhotcopy depending on the…
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Output/pipe ntbackup directly to GPG

Currently, we can perform and encrypt a Windows backup with ntbackup and GPG in 2 separate steps in a batch script, as below: ntbackup backup "@selection_file.bks" /f "backup_file.bak" gpg --recipient "recipient" --encrypt "backup_file.bak" --output…
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Whats the best cloud backup solution for a small scale server environment?

I have a server that runs a postgres database that contains about 200MB of data. Currently I have a cron job setup on my home computer which: ssh's into my server runs a remote script which makes a backup of the database scp's that dump over to my…
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