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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 store 250TB of data and develop a backup/recovery plan?

I'm really new to this topic, so big apology for stupid questions. I have a school project and I want to know how to store 250TB of data with life-cycle for 18 months. It means every record is stored for 18 months and after this period of time can…
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Backups of Exchange 2007 SP3 using VSS are abnormally large

I have recently implemented Veeam backup and recovery 6.0, and have noted when backing up my exchange server via incremental updates, it is transferring way more data than expected. Backup is incremental, and setup to use VSS. VSS is stable and…
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how to include error messages into backup reports for SQL Server 2008 R2?

Right now I have daily (differential) and weekly (full) backups set on my SQL Server 2008 R2 as jobs for SQL Server Agent with email notifications if job fails. I do get emails like this: JOB RUN: 'Daily backup.Diff backup' was run on 4/11/2012 at…
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VMware vSphere 4.1 and BackupExec 2010

I'm sure a common problem with most shops is backups, their size, and the window in which you have to back up the data. What we are working with: VMware vSphere 4.1 Cluster PS4000XV Equallogic Storage Array (1.6TB Volume dedicated for Backup to…
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How do I backup my Exchange 2010 database using Backup Exec 2010?

When I try to select my Exchange database (filename.edb) file to add it to the list of items being backed up, it is grayed out with the following message: Not selectable for backup from this node. Click the Windows computer icon that lists the…
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Cron job failing to backing up a Postgres database

I'm unsure what's going on here: I've got a backup script which runs fine under root. It produces a >300kb database dump in the proper directory. When running it as a cron job with exactly the same command however, an empty gzip file appears with…
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Simple Linux Live System Backup to file(s)

I am looking for a simple backup solution for backing up my Linux server (RHEL5-x86_64). I must be automatic (run at night, so I cannot baby-sit it) It must be run on a live system (or semi-live - I expect performance to drop while backing up) It…
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Backup plan to Heroku

We host our application on Heroku. I'm wondering what can I do as a backup plan when Heroku doesn't work. If I keep a backup of everything on Rackspace, when Heroku goes down, can I change to Rackspace in the moment? Any idea how that's done? Thanks
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How to restore a certificate from a backup

I have an authenticode certificate living in a backup created with Drive Snapshot, which is a byte level backup of the c: partition from my development machine. I need to export that certificate. I have converted that backup to a vmdk file and tried…
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What's the best way to schedule a command to run, assuring a previous set of commands have completed?

Namely, I need to rotate backup folders. I have many machines on a schedule to rsync to a single backup machine. Although I schedule the backups to begin in the late evening, and schedule a folder rotation (to make folder day0 become day1,…
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Backup with dd upon reboot

I'm trying to implement the easy to maintain backup solution for our local linux server. The goal is to be able to restore the whole system from image file. What I am thinking of is just to issue following script with cron FILENAME=`date…
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What the max disc label when recording CDs/DVDs?

When doing backups, I get confused about the max character size of the disk label when recording CDs/DVDs. It's fixed size or follow some standard?
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VSS fails on creating snapshot - various VSS writers failed state, timed out

I have several errors in my log. My environment is: Server 2008 R2 (virtual machines on Server Core stack). AppAssure Replay 4 as the backup solution. In the evening backup goes okay usually, snapshots get created fine. During the day and other…
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Local backup server - what operating system / software to use?

We have very minimal backups. About 6GB total (including Server 2008R2 OS), and it changes maybe 30MB a day if that. We have an extra server (Dell T310) sitting here with 4 3TB drives in RAID 5. It will basically be used to store a local copy of our…
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NTFS on iSCSI - Mounting two Server 2008 servers to same LUN

I'm aware that you can't mount a single LUN to two read/write NTFS iscsi volumes without massive issues unless you are using clustered servers. However, I'm curious about mounting 1 iscsi lun read/write on one server (say, a database server) and the…
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