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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 do I make GitLab delete old backups?

I use the rake task to create backups for GitLab 6.8.2. gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create In /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb I added the following line: gitlab_rails['backup_keep_time'] = 60 This is supposed to prune backups older than 60 seconds. My…
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Encrypted offsite backup using GPG with private key never on backup server?

I have a backup server, that creates xz compressed tar archives of directory trees to be backed up. These tar archives can get huge (multiple TBs), are split into pieces (2.5TB), and each piece is written to a LTO-6 tape, and the tapes go…
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Is it possible to detach and reattach a ZFS disk without requiring a full resilver?

I have a ZFS mirrored pool with four total drives. Two of the drives are intended to be used for rotating offsite backups. My expectation was that after the initial resilvering I could detach and later attach a disk and have it only do an…
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rsync --iconv option on Mac not working (sync from remote Linux server to local Mac)

I want to use rsync to backup data from a remote Linux server to my local Mac. And I want to initialise this operation on my local Mac. All works fine except that there is a special character problem: every time I re-run the rsync operation (after…
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How do I backup my TRAC installations?

We use separate TRAC instances as our ticket system for many projects and need to have them moved off site several times a day for disaster recovery. What is the best way to make this happen? Is there something similar to svnsync for subversion?
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Temporary SSH Tunnel for backup purposes

I'd like to write a shell script (currently using bash) to automatically back up the content of several MySQL schemas on a remote server. The remote server is locked down to only allow SSH access so I have to create an SSH tunnel before running…
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What good free software is available for backing up a few PCs?

I have a network of about 30 Windows PCs. What good free software is available that will automatically (scheduled) make backups (not whole HDD but only certain folders) for these PCs and save on a remote server which will be used only for storing…
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How do you set bzip2 block size when using tar?

I am using tar to backup a linux server to tape. I am using the -j option to compress the file with bzip2, however I can't see a way to adjust the block size options for bzip2 from tar. The default block size is 900,000 bytes which gives the best…
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Tar: avoid archiving of files larger than certain size

I want to archive files (with tar) which are below 3 MB in size. But I also want to retain the directories in which those files exist. (so I cannot use find command). I just want to avoid the files which are above 3 MB in size. How can this be done?
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Sharepoint 2007 Backup Solutions?

SharePoint 2007 comes in with a built-in backup facility, but I've heard bad things about it. Namely, you can backup but not restore the configuration database, and generally that restoring is always a test of faith. I wonder if there are some "Best…
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Simple Backup Strategy for Amazon EC2 instances / volumes?

You have entered Introductory Backups for Amazon EC2 EBS-backed Windows Images 010... I have been browsing my brains out to find a simple backup strategy for our single windows 2008 server running SharePoint Services. This is an EBS-backed image…
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How to choose a cloud service for backups

I am thinking of using a cloud service to backup one of my client's website. My (clients) main concerns are (in decreasing order of importance) Protection of IP (trade secrets, source code), user account details etc Uptime guarantee offered by…
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Setting up a server at home for backup purposes a bad idea?

I got burned by a hosting provider today, they had a datacenter issue and they claimed they do backups, but their backup was corrupted, so I lost a website that I had backed up on two different servers hosted by them. Both servers were affected, so…
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Is My Understanding of Windows Bare Metal System / Images Backups vs. File Backups Correct?

So my understanding of it is like this, there are two types of backups, and they are Image Backups and Data / User File backups... Image Backups (System Backups / System State /Disaster Recovery Backups) The Creation Process Can be created with…
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If RAID5/6 are risky due to URE, are full backup/restore schemes at risk too?

As I understand it, you have a high chance of encountering an URE during a rebuild due to having to read a large amount of data to perform the task. Does this problem also affect backup and restore scenarios of large amounts of data? If you have to…
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