Server Fault Stack Exchange
Server Fault Stack Exchange

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.

3959 questions
11
votes
5 answers

ZFS Sync over unreliable, slow WAN. ZFS replication, or rsync?

I've been tasked with making an off-site backup work over the WAN. Both storage boxes are FreeBSD based NAS boxes running ZFS. Once or twice a week, 15-60 gigs of photography data gets dumped to the office NAS. My job is to figure out how to get…
Paul McMillan
  • 1,219
  • 1
  • 8
  • 17
11
votes
4 answers

How do I make a backup of a live server?

At my new job, I have a production server with the following qualities: Windows Server 2003, ancient hardware Absolutely vital database No backups whatsoever Everyone in the company has full admin rights, the passwords are stored in a .txt on the…
György Andrasek
  • 615
  • 5
  • 9
11
votes
7 answers

How to use a Volume Shadow Copy to make backups

The plan is to create a shadow copy of a quite large, I/O-heavy volume. It's 350GB, containing a filesystem-based fulltext index organized in hundreds of folders and hundred-thousands of tiny files that need to be in a consistent state for a…
Tomalak
  • 1,605
  • 4
  • 17
  • 32
11
votes
2 answers

Equivalent of `nice` for filesystem IO?

When I'm running an rsync backup job which involves copying over large files, the machine running the backup (both Mac desktops and Linux servers) grinds to a halt and the load average goes through the roof. I've tried: niceing the rsync process…
David Wolever
  • 2,267
  • 3
  • 24
  • 27
10
votes
3 answers

Preserving file and folder permissions with rsync

I maintain a backup of my email accounts using this command: sudo rsync -av --delete --progress -e "ssh -p pNumber" --rsync-path="/usr/bin/rsync" /vmail/ user@my_backup_server:/home/user/backups/vmail/ Source: Most email folders are owned by user…
W.M.
  • 204
  • 1
  • 2
  • 8
10
votes
6 answers

Backup solutions for Rackspace cloud sites?

What options do I have for backing up the content from a Rackspace Cloud Sites including files and databases? I know they have cron jobs, but I am not sure what options I have when it comes to that. Here are some of the things the cron jobs they…
Daniel A. White
  • 675
  • 1
  • 11
  • 20
10
votes
10 answers

Should I build my own or buy a cheap NAS?

I've looked at this question and gotten some ideas from it. Assume I want something that runs quietly with raid support. I see the choices as being buy a home NAS solution most of which appear to be $400 or more, or build my own low powered PC and…
Jared
  • 1,420
  • 2
  • 16
  • 23
10
votes
4 answers

How should I store my HDDs?

I have a few HDDs which contain backup data. I want to store them in a secure place. I know some good practices like storing them in a different building so if there is, let's say, a fire, you can still restore the data. But I am more concerned in…
user395136
10
votes
3 answers

Very Huge Sized Cache of Duplicity

I am currently using a duplicity script to backup my 110G/2T CentOS server to a 2T sftp server. Since 4 days passed, duplicity backed up just 90G. This is not a problem. The main problem is; I have got nearly 600G cache that duplicity generated at…
Bahadir Tasdemir
  • 205
  • 1
  • 2
  • 8
10
votes
8 answers

Backup Solutions for Exchange 2007

What Backup solutions do people use for Exchange 2007? In particular i'm interested in those that allow a mailbox level backup, so that individual mailboxes can be restored.
Sam Cogan
  • 38,736
  • 6
  • 78
  • 114
10
votes
4 answers

How Serviceable are Tape Drives?

I'm contemplating an auto-loading tape drive as part of a backup strategy. This would be my first experience with tape backup. The cost-effectiveness of tape drives seems to depend on the assumption that they will provide many years of service. …
alx9r
  • 1,643
  • 3
  • 17
  • 38
10
votes
6 answers

Does a CDN still work even when my server is down?

I am a website owner planning to use Amazon's cloudfront S3. I have been reading all the stuffs about what a CDN can do but i still have an unanswered question. Does a CDN still work even when my main server is down. That's the main reason i am…
Tola
  • 101
  • 1
  • 3
10
votes
2 answers

Should the virtualization host be allowed to run any service?

I recently setup a virtualization server for the small company I'm running. This server runs few virtual machines that are used for development, testing, etc... My business partner works from a remote location, thus I also installed a vpn server on…
Giordano
  • 309
  • 1
  • 3
  • 9
10
votes
2 answers

Areca 1280ml RAID6 volume set failed

Today we hit some kind of worst case scenario and are open to any kind of good ideas. Here is our problem: We are using several dedicated storage servers to host our virtual machines. Before I continue, here are the specs: Dedicated Server…
Richard
  • 199
  • 2
  • 4
10
votes
8 answers

S3 Interfaces for Backup, etc

Since none of the S3 "file systems" are compatible right now, what s3 gateway tool do you recommend for mounting a remote S3 bucket for backups? I've been using S3FS, but I've heard a lot of people complaining about the poor quality of the code; I…
Mikeage
  • 2,741
  • 6
  • 26
  • 37
1 2 3
…
99 100