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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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Software for using Amazon S3 as backup service

What software do you recommend for using Amazon S3 as a placeholder for daily backups? I need it to be fully automated, and easy to restore data.
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Synchronizing very large folder structures

We have a folder structure on our intranet which contains around 800,000 files divvied up into around 4,000 folders. We need to synchronize this to a small cluster of machines in our DMZs. The depth of the structure is very shallow (it never…
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Build a low-power file server

I would like to build a file server for backups. The server needs to be available 24/7 in a mixed Windows/Linux network, but service should not exceed 1 hour per day. Thats why power consumption is my main priority. What do you think is the best…
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Why is it so important to backup your transaction log?

We're currently implementing a backup solution for a client and their ERP solution uses SQL Server. The ERP solution was set up by a different company. And they are telling me that it is super important to back up and truncate the transaction…
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How do limit disc i/o during backup?

I have a cron that basically do a simple "tar zcf" in the night. The server has: 8 Cores - Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5606 @ 2.13GHz 25GB RAM Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS Hardware RAID 1 (LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS SMC2108) with two 2.728TB…
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Amanda, Bacula, BackupPC Which has a reliable windows client?

I wish to setup an automated backup system for three Windows XP machines in the same building to a Linux server out on the WAN. I visit each machine every few months and make a disk image for a bare metal recovery. I need a way to automatically…
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Duplicity: recommended value for --volsize?

I am backing up ~800GB from a server to a NAS via Gigabit (destination is a share mounted on the server I need to backup). What value would you recommend for volsize? Thanks
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Amazon EC2 Backup Strategy

I have a couple Web server/DB server setups using Amazon's EC2. I am currently taking daily snapshots of all my system and EBS drives that contains all of my application files, DB files, source code and DB backups. I have a console application that…
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Downtimeless MySQL backups on a budget

My current MySQL backup scenario is to replicate our db to a second server and run mysqldump on that server to remove any downtime from table or row locking. This is working well but costs $150 per month for the second server (Australian hosting is…
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Trying to setup chroot'd rsync

I'm trying to set up a backup server. I want to chroot each user (client) to its home directory, and only allow it to use sftp and rsync. I quickly discovered that I was not the only one trying to do something like this, and I found this guide and…
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.pgpass with postgreSQL not working

I have put a .pgpass file in /folder/.pgpass and it looks like this *:*:*:postgres:password_for_postgres I have a bash script where I backup the database from postgreSQL: #!/bin/bash export PGPASSFILE=/folder/.pgpass echo $PGPASSFILE pg_dump…
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How do you do the offsite hard drive backups?

I have been doing hard drive backups for a while, which I believe a lot of you guys do as well, but am having trouble figuring out a better way storing them offsite. I am wondering how you guys out there do that. Any policy or tips & tricks when it…
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Rsync fails to backup some files, giving error 22

I'm trying to backup my whole server using a simple rsync on a NFS mounted volume on '/nas' Here's my rsync command rsync -sav -S --stats -H --numeric-ids --delete -D --exclude-from="/usr/local/bin/rsync_nas1_exclude" / /nas1/ Getting the…
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How do you backup a storage server?

I'm looking at implementing a very large storage server to be used as live NAS for several other servers (all Linux-based). By very large, I mean between 4TB and 20TB usable space (although it's unlikely we'll actually make it 20TB). The storage…
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What is a practical way to mirror an Amazon S3 bucket?

I want to mirror my Amazon S3 buckets. I want to do this because 1) I don't want all my data only existing with one provider; and 2) in case of software error or security breach I want to have the data backed up. I can mirror to a local disk with…
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