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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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Are large (1TB) .VMDKs safe, can they get corrupted?

To make a long story short, I am wondering if it is unwise to use large thin .vmdk's for a nas VM? I am planning on backing up to external 2TB drives (very small business), keeping one offsite at all times. I could use a poweredge 840, but the…
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"Versions" of Directory Service Values

I want to have several applications using AD LDS for centralized configuration information. I would like to know if there is a way to back up indepdendant sections of directory entries, such as "per Organizational Unit"? My use case is this: a…
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Setup a Backup for 90k+ photos and desktop file structure

I'm working for an engineer that takes about 500 pictures a month and uses Adobe Lightroom to manage them. He currently has about 2TBs of data that need to be backed up regularly. To setup a backup for him I was thinking about getting 6 1TB hard…
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rsync delete after file hasn't existed for X days

I have the following rsync command: 0 0 * * * rsync -av --delete /media/VIDEOS/ /media/lacie1/backup/videos/ I want to set it so instead of doing a replication like what it's doing now, it does a normal backup and only deletes file from the…
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Does there exist SATA tape drives in the native 800GB - 1TB range?

The largest SATA tape storage I have been able to find is 160GB native, which is the Quantum DLT-V4. Does anyone know of SATA (or USB3) tape storage with 800GB-1TB native capacity? Update It could also be a SAS tape drive. Can anyone recommend a SAS…
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Do you have to partition before running mkfs on a single partition disk?

I see that some people don't use fdisk to create a partition on /dev/sdb... what is the difference between making and not making a partition for a single partition disk? I just added a partition on a virtual disk, ran mkfs.ext4 and mounted it, but I…
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How come /bin/rm -rf /backups/hourly.5/ takes forever on a backup server?

They're simply hardlinks so the files shouldn't actually even be deleted. What options do I have? It even seems to take quite some load. I don't see how deleting 30.000 hard-links should take more than a minute, let alone a full hour. I use…
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Is it possible to host a service like Dropbox on your own server with almost as good service?

What if I have just made an important change and messed something up? Is this part of Dropboxes functionality? I am considering hosting a Dropbox myself for own usage on a virtual machine, so I can also have back-ups and have more than 2GB in…
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ActiveDirectory add backup domain controller on other computer

I have Active Directory and need to move to another ActiveDirectory(PDC) on the other computer and I want to do it this way: Add a Backup Domain Controller Synchronize the settings from Primary Domain Controller i.e import the settings Make BDC…
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Desktop standby solution?

Does anyone know of a good solution to have a Windows desktop standby so that users can be back up and running quickly in case of hardware failure? Assumption is that the desktops aren't generic but highly customized for individual users. Although…
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Symantec backupexec troubleshooting issues with a Dell Robotic tape Library in Windows 2003

I’m running Symantec BackupExec 12.0 on a Windows 2003 server. After I powered down my SCSI tape drive (Dell PowerVault 124t autoloader) it no longer shows up in Backup Exec in the device pool. So far, I have updated firmware on the tape unit…
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Why did wbadmin produce a VHD I can't mount?

I used the wbadmin tool in Windows 7 to produce an image of my laptop's C: drive, saving it to a network location (call it \\server\backup\user\currentimage) and when it completed, I was unable to mount the VHD. I pointed Disk Management to…
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Why isn't my SQL Server 08 Maintenance plan running at all?

I have this maintenance plan scheduled on my SQL Server 08... however, it never runs! It's been setup for 2 weeks now and I have not seen a single backup created, what am I doing wrong? How do I get this thing to run the backups and other tasks?
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How to properly format DAT tape drives

I have been assigned the task of setting up a proper tape drive backup system. Essentially, I will be using "Windows Backup Utility" to run the process. I currently have a Quantum DAT Tape Drive connected to the server that I wish to back up. I have…
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bacula: how to back up a windows machine via smb?

How do you set up a job in bacula to back up a windows machine via SMB (machine does not have the bacula agent installed)? According to the feature set this is supported. I would imagine somewhere I need to define the \machinename\c$ ?
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