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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 encrypt a small folder and copy that to Google Drive or DropBox?

Right now I use the following to back up a small project folder to a USB Flash drive: alias a='alias' a dateseq='date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"' a backup_proj='cp -a ~/code/MyProj "/Volumes/KINGSTON/MyProj `dateseq`" so each time I type backup_proj, the…
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Do I need to use apply-log with innobackupex

I'm using innobackupex to backup my databases like this: usr/local/bin/innobackupex --user=bkpuser --password='example' --rsync \ --no-timestamp /pathtobackup 2> /pathtobackup/innobackupex.log Now this page says "However there are transactions…
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16tb raid6 + lvm, to partition or not to partition?

So I have a 16tb raid6 on one of a new batch of machines I am setting up. I will be using LVM on top of this and am wondering if there are any compelling reasons to break the raid up into partitions first or any compelling reasons not to. I know…
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How do I determine if a backup occurred on my Windows 2003 server?

I'm having to do sys admin work, without the training. (Long story.) We've got a tape drive in one of our Windows 2003 R2 servers. The former sys admin setup a backup job in the Windows Backup and Restore utility, which we've been running, by…
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Use WinSCP or similar to copy files from Linux to Windows

I can use WinSCP GUI just fine to copy a folder from a Linux server locally to a Windows server for backup, using the "updated files/folders only" option (sort of an rsync). I'd like to use WinSCP's command line utility or something similar that I…
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VM Backups - Externalizing extra large VMware backups

I have a couple of VMware ESXi hosts with a couple of VMs on each hosts. The total amount of size of all these VMs are in the order of the TBs. I want to make backups of these VMs. But here is not the problem. I already make backups using ghettoVCB…
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Consistency of virtual machine backups using ghettoVCB

I have a ESXi host with both Windows and CentOS virtual machines running. A couple of them are running SQL Databases (MSSQL and MySQL). I am trying to setup a backup strategy using the ghettoVCB script, I have successfully executed the backups and…
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Recover amanda backup without configuration files

I have inherited a bunch of old backup tapes that contain some data that needs to be recovered. The problem is that the amanda implementation used to create these backups has since been obliterated. I am very new to amanda, but was under the…
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Create a full replica of web server using different hosting company, is it logical?

Is it logical to create a full replica of our webserver, just on a less powerful machine, using other hosting provider ( just because its cheaper ). The idea is to have a plan B, in case main server fails. Personally all idea sounds messed up all…
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Backup solution for road warriors

My users are mostly road warriors who work on their Windows laptops. I would like to have a backup solution that would copy data to a corporate server over VPN. Could is absolutely out of question. It has to: support flaky connections and…
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How to restore Windows 2003 using a system backup? Didn't work for me

I have had an easy time testing system restores with ASR NTBackups. I wanted to try what I thought was an alternate approach provided by windows 2003 for full system restores. Using NTBackup, I made a system backup, and then a full backup of the C:…
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sudoers not working for tar command

I want to disable the requirement of sudo or running as root for a bash script that does backups with tar. I added this line to my sudoers file username ALL=NOPASSWD: /bin/tar However after I added that it still shows permissions denied when I run…
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Community Input on Backup Solutions

I am considering changing my backup strategy from using backup tape to using a product from EMC called Avamar. I have a Corp Data Center and a Disaster recovery Data Center. The plan is to put Avamar units in both DC's and replicate between the two…
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Central backup server?

We've got a bunch of Linux and Windows Servers that I'd like to do full-system backups of -- to a centralized Linux Server. Ideally we'd have de-duping and versioning; but it's not required. I haven't found any great solutions out there in the…
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fastest way to backup webserver files and mysql db and automate

I would like to setup a cron job for to backup all my web server files to a compressed file and also my MYSQL db. I have full acces to my server as it is a VPS. I am a noob at linux and could really use the help. I am also running centos 5. I would…
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