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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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What is the simplest and fastest way to transfer large file through a Windows network?

I have a Window Server 2000 machine running MS SQL Server that stores over 20GB of data. The database is backed-up every day to the second harddrive. I want to transfer those backup files to another computer to build another test server and for…
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How to big scale backup Gitlab?

When asking Gitlab support on how to do a 3TB backup on ones on-premise Gitlab they reply use our tool that produces a tarball. This just seams wrong to me on all levels. This tarball contains the postgres dump, docker images, repo data, GIT LFS,…
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Backup MySQL Server

What's the best way to back up a MySQL server? I would like a method that doesn't require bringing down the server. Is something like InnoDB hot backup necessary, or can I just use the backup tools provided in the MySQL Administrator tools. What…
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Why don't people just use rsync to back up vmware guests?

If I am running a modern vmware ESXi system, I can drop in a statically linked rsync binary and rsync files to any destination over SSH. I'm trying to understand why most (all ?) backup of vmware guests is not done this way. If the VM is running,…
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SVN: Where is my repository?

I'm trying to backup my SVN respository. My problem: I forgot where I put my repository on the hard disk. How can I find this? FYI: I'm using TortoiseSVN if that helps.
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rsync to compressed archive of file

I take backups of a server with rsync, but those backups are quite large, and I'd like to compress them. Is there a way to have some sort of wrapper around rsync to gunzip the file in the backup, rsync the changes from the live file, then re-gzip…
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How do you limit the bandwidth for a file copy?

I've got an old windows 2000 box in a remote location with a T1 connection and a vpn to my location. I normally use smb mounts to transfer files but now it's time to decommission the server and copy it's backups to my location. I have about 40…
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Duplicity: How to list versions of a file?

Using Duplicity I can make an incremental, efficient backup to an untrusted remote storage. This works fine and I can restore files at a specific point in time (or the next backup after that). Well now I want to know when in the history of all the…
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Duplicity and Amazon S3 Script

I'm looking to backup my linux server to Amazon S3 using duplicity. I found a great resource here that helped me get it setup and am using the basic script that was listed there for me and now copied here: #!/bin/sh # Export some ENV variables so…
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Write-only remote backup solutions to prevent backup deletion by hackers

Consider this scenario: I have linux server which is automatically backed up daily to some remote location via rsync or something like this. Everything is fine until some bad guy gains access to server, finds my automated backup script and deletes…
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How can I restore a duplicity backup from a certain date?

Is it possible to restore a duplicity backup from a certain time in the past? For example, if I'm making daily incremental backups, is there a way to restore a backup from three days ago?
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Backing up qcow2 kvm guests

I can't find any good info on backing up qcow2 kvm guests. I'm not really interested in the guests running state, only the file system. This question suggests using savevm but that creates a snapshot in place. I'd like to backup the filesystem…
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How to restore a SQL Server database and shrink its files at the same time?

Let's say I have a SQL Server database whose data files have been created with an initial size of 100 GB, but it only contains 10 GB of data. A database backup will then be only 10 GB in size. I want to restore this backup to a different server (or…
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How safe are Windows Active Directory Schema Updates?

I'm trying to get a better understanding about how Active Directory handles Schema updates, specifically how safe the procedure actually is given how critical AD is and given the range of situations where updates are required. Exchange 2007, OCS,…
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How to use the full LTO-2 Tape backup capacity of 200/400GB?

I have an Ultrium 448 tape drive, LTO-2 tapes (200/400GB) and I'm using HP Data Protector as the backup client. The system is set to format and overwrite all tapes but I never manage to get more that ~150GB on a tape before it asks for another tape…
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