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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 can I delete SQL Server differential and log backups earlier than the earliest full backup still on disk?

When I delete a full backup, I would like to delete all the files that are rendered useless once that full backup has been deleted: specifically, the differential and log backups that occur before the earliest full backup that is still on disk. Does…
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Store and backup 200 million small files

My disk are 10x1TB SAS 7200 RPM in a RAID 10 with a MegaRaid 9260 hardware controller with cache/BBU. This results in a 4.6TB RAID 10 volume. hdparm -t (when device is empty) results in 500MB/s. RAID chunk size is 64KB, filesystem block size is 2KB…
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Backup of VisualSVN

I've got installed a VisualSVN in a Windows Server 2003 (it has just a drive C: with 10GB) I'm planning to backup a VisualSVN server in this way: Make a disk image with Ghost or some other software of my Windows Server 2003. Every night make a…
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Does the OSS Backup Solution amanda.org support sparse files?

I want to (or better have to) do Backups of my KVM Virtual Machine images. I have searched for days for a good Backup Soloution. I know amanda is a very good solution. It would be kinf if someone kenn tell me if the following is supported: Trigger…
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Backup with mixed incremental and differential strategies?

I need script that help me to backup my network's files on the server, using mixed strategy of incremental and differential. 'tar' can do something like that but the problem is extracting the about 30Gb file is time consuming and in not efficient. I…
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TFS 2010 Backup Plan Fails with Error About AdminPTHelper.exe

My company has a TFS 2010 Server running SharePoint 2010 locally. Originally we were just doing a database backup of all the TFS databases (MSSQL 2008 also run locally) but I came across some Microsoft literature which specified that you should use…
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Missing Removable Storage Manager Feature

Anyone know a workaround for the instructions found here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=4220 since they are incorrect for Windows Standard 2008 R2 SP1. There is no "Removable Storage Manager" feature available!
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Problems restoring file backed up on Windows using Duplicati to a Linux server running mono

TL/DR version: Mono + Duplicati.commandline.exe restore etc. etc. spits this out for several files regardless of what I try. I am able to list sets, list files in said sets, even do a verify, but each time i do a restore of any kind, i get errors to…
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Monit - how to check loadavg only when no backup is running?

I've got Monit configuration with: check system example.com if loadavg (1min) > 4 then alert if loadavg (5min) > 2 then alert I want to get rid of messages every time backup is running at night, but I do not want to turn it off…
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Clone Windows 2003 SBS Machine without turning it off

I'm a junior sys admin at a small firm and i just recently have been assigned to a new customer. I went through the normal learning process of getting to know the relatively simple network structure and the requirements of the company. I come…
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Running a command as root from my local machine

I'm currently trying to figure out backing up using rsync - and I've run into a little hitch. I've disabled root access via SSH for security reasons, and have to use my special user account (without sudo permissions) whenever I SSH in to do admin…
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why is Git pull throws an error: cannot be used without a working tree

I have installed Git version 1.7.6.msysgit.0 on our Windows 2003 Server (SP2). This is our main repository for 14 developers. I am trying to create a backup from this repository. The way I am trying is: I made a clone of this repo on our backup…
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Bandwidth-friendly backup strategy using tar?

We've used tar to backup and compress (gzip) selected directories on our file server with very good results until recently. Each and every one of our backups are stored on mirrored (RAID) harddrives and simultaneously uploaded to a Amazon S3 bucket…
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Client Backups for the Enterprise

i'm curious what everyone is using for their client-side backups. We currently have about 300 clients, with an 80/20 split between desktops and laptops, respectively, running windows XP, upgrading to Win7 over the next year. Currently we backup…
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Oracle Backup Strategy

I have recently inherited a smallish Oracle database running on a SPARC Solaris 10 Server. I have been asked to implement a sensible backup strategy. The database has about 3000 odd tables and is roughly about 19 GB in size (using the expdp…
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