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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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Back up Windows 2008 SBS to iSCSI disk

I've almost no experience with SBS 2008, so please excuse my noob question! SBS 2008 only has the most basic backup utility built in as far as I can tell (similar to Vista), and it will only back up to physical volumes. I've read that you can set up…
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Data Protection Manager Offsite Backup

Our current backup scheme is to backup all of our servers to a NAS device, and swap it out with another one occasionally. Of course, this is no fun to manage, so we've been evaluating Microsoft's DPM. So far, DPM looks like it will work great, but…
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How to clean up windows server 2008 backups

I have a windows 2008 server which is backing up it's primary drive to a local hard disk. Because this server doesn't change very often, I only execute it manually when worthwhile changes occur. So far, I've accrued 13 backups that are on disk. …
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Shadow protect backup restoration really slow

I'm part of a small I.t. dept for an engineering firm. While I'm mostly a software developer I wear many other hats due to the small size of the company. Today I'm wearing the hat of I.T. manager stressing out over backup restoration. The…
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Server 2008 R2 - Windows Backup has BMR

I noticed on Server 2008 R2 that Windows Backup has bare metal restore capability. However, in 2008 it does not. Is it possible to update Windows Backup in 2008 with the Windows Backup that comes with 2008 R2 without actually upgrading to 2008 R2?
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SharePoint - Do DPM and SQL backups affect each other?

I am trying to clear up an ugly maintenance plan on SharePoint databases that happen to also be backed up by Data Protection Manager (which is setup to take snapshots at 15-minute intervals). The business would like to separately perform backups of…
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Full Disk Imaging when machine is running

I am looking for a disk imaging solution that can run in background when my machine is up and running (e.g. via cron). I am using an Ubuntu machine. In the past I have used Clonezilla for periodic imaging but would like to do nightly full-disk…
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MySQL Enterprise Backup GUI (or a live backup alternative)

I am looking into MySQL Enterprise backup solution. I am interested in a non-blocking mysql backup (live and incremental). MySQL Enterprise provides this solution (we have the subscription already). But from what I see it's only a console…
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Odd problem with Backup Exec - 427 GB of Data filling an 800 Gig Tape

We are currently trying to diagnose an ongoing issue with a clients backup in Backup Exec. They have an LTO4 Drive that they are backing up to. When they backup it fills the tape (which has a capacity of 800 GB), even though it is only 427 GB of…
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Multiple OS X clients - Time Machine backup to NAS?

We have about 15 OS X desktop machines - mainly iMacs, some MacBooks and Mac Pros. Each user has a local account on the machine, and a portable USB disk for a Time Machine backup. I want to coordinate the backups to a central NAS, and I'm thinking…
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Automated file synchronization / backup across LAN or FTP in a Windows Server environment?

What is the best architecture for automating scheduled file synchronization / transfers for backup purposes in a windows server environment across either a LAN or the internet? I would like to automate nightly (or perhaps hourly) file…
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Backup/Zip all server files once to local hard drive

I have backup2l scheduled to take daily backups that are stored on an external server, this work fine although I would also like to take a full backup of the whole server and store this on my local PC. How can I do this with minimal errors or big…
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Netgear ReadyNAS and Windows Server Backup

I have several boxes running Windows Server 2008 r2. I have been attempting to use the built-in 'Windows Server Backup' so that each of these servers stores their backups to the readyNAS 1100. What is strange is that I can do a 'Backup Once' backup…
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Exchange 2010 giving a backup error (see detail). How do I find out what the problem is and how do I fix it?

The error is: eseutil (2860) JetDBUtilities - 3928: The log file \?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy84\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Mailbox\Mailbox Database 0501047257\E000000B4E0.log is damaged, invalid, or inaccessible…
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How can I create a database backup replacing the previously created backup file?

If I backup my SQL Server 2008 R2 database with the following command set @BackupFileName = N'C:\backup\Production-db.BAK' BACKUP DATABASE [Production-db] TO DISK = @BackupFileName and run the command twice, the backup file grows to twice the…
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