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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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Is backing up to a NAS over private fibre link better than tape?

I have recently taken over the responsibility of a small business network of 35 users. I am a bit green on backup strategies and am considering my options. We currently backup our SBS Server to tape (LTO 2). In addition, separately, we backup an SQL…
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Tape Backup Scheme - Trying to save tapes

I have inherited a tape backup scheme that currently doesn't wash any tapes. Expensive, but fine. We currently run Fulls every quarter, which become our offsite. We then run incrementals in the interim. The fulls are permanently archived…
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Cannot get Backup Exec 11d to recognize my RDX device on windows server?

We have Backup Exec 11d for windows server running on windows server that currently backups up our data on tape drive. We purchased an 500GB RDX drive to replace the tape drives but cannot get Backup Exec 11d to recognize our RDX device on windows…
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Need help recovering PostgreSql database to a new server

As said in the topic I need some help restoring a database to a new server. There is a production database on one server - I do a daily automated backup of that database to a remote location: pgdump, binaries, and bzipped logs. Now I want to create…
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Creating a clone of a SQL Server database via backup/restore

So I'm trying to 'clone' a SQL Server database by making a backup of the template, then restoring it to the new name. However, there's either something I'm missing or something I don't understand about making backups. This is what I've got so…
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How do I back up a bunch of OS X machines via TimeMachine without buying a bunch of Time Capsules?

I've got a bunch of OS X laptops and desktops in the office that I'd like to back up using the built-in Time Machine. The first cut at this idea, buying a bunch of Time Capsules, seems like a management nightmare. Is there a reasonable way to run…
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How to remove a certain folder when tar zipping?

I want to remove a folder when I'm creating a tar.gz file as it's for a backup and it takes too much space and is not required I am using the following command; tar -cvzf /home/backups/$STAMP-Earth.tar.gz /home/bukkit/ I do not want to include…
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Does NetApp providing tooling to export a WAFL export snapshots to a file?

With the open source ZFS file systm, an exact copy/snapshot can be produced using zfs snapshot. This includes file-system level optimizations like deduplication. Further you can send these to a remote server that's listening with zfs receive using…
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Recommendation for backup plan needed for small business

Caution: This is verbose :) My Problem: Client requires a possible rebuild of their current backup plan for local and offsite backup. Tape and online backup are not an option. (Client decision). Background/Infrastructure: 1 Server running Windows…
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How to make rsnapshot backups in different locations?

I have backup server that gathers backups from few other servers. I want to make directory structure like this /backup/snapshots//.0/ Instead of default /backup/snapshots/.0// How to do this? I…
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Dropbox like application

Does anyone know of a application which can be downloaded and run our your own servers which contains a web interface which can be used to access data you have backed up to it using either rsync for FTP etc using different login accounts?
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Backup of All websites with MSDeploy

I am trying to make a command line argument that will backup all my websites to a file which I can then move periodically to offsite backup location. I would need all the content and all the settings so in case of a server fault I can easily restore…
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ldapadd with automatic support for replace if entry already exists

I've been doing some testing with ldapadd and ldapmodify and what I noticed is: -ldapadd will fail if the entry already exists: => hdb_tool_entry_put: txn_aborted! DB_KEYEXIST: Key/data pair already exists (-30995) ldapadd: could not add entry…
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How to setup a daily backup virtual machine running on VMWare?

My company has a VMWare server. We run 6-8 virtual machine. I would like to perform daily backup them in a storage server. How to do this with VMWare? Is there some "component" I don't know ? Or simply, I need to 'physical' copy vmdk files with a…
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SBS 2k8 Backup doesn't flush Exchange-Logs

We're using the Small Business Server Backup that comes with SBS 2008 to backup all drives to an iomega iSCSI-Target. The Backup works fine and everything is shown as successfully backed up. But the exchange-logs in C:\Program…
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