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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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Sync up VMWare Images on backup SAN

I added an additional iSCSI SAN as a backup to our existing ESX Server storage array (homegrown, so no fancy NetApp or EMC software to manage this). Any way to automagically sync up the VM images in case the primary SAN fails? (vranger?)
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Server Backup Software

What are you all using for your server backups? We have 95% Windows servers and are looking for new backup software without breaking the bank, if possible. I've been looking at ShadowProtect and greatly enjoy how easy it is to use, but I'm still…
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How to automatically backup Cisco MDS 9000 switches

Does anyone know if the Kiwi Cat Tool can backup the switch config from a Cisco MDS 9000 series switch? I've used another TFTP tool to capture the config and copy it to a local directory, but it's a manual process. I'm looking for a way to…
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How to dump a mysql database and transfer to remote ftp in one line -for crontab-?

I need to do a weekly backup of a mySQL table and then transfer it to a remote machine using ftp. This is the command I have now in crontab: 0 18 * * 1 /usr/bin/mysqldump --add-drop-table --extended-insert -user -ppass db [table] >…
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SQL Server 2008: Is it possible to store differential backups in a separate files?

We're moving some of our applications to a new hosting provider and we want to make it seamless for our users. Nonetheless, we have big databases and we've got to move about 48GB of data. Our proposal -if it's possible- is taking full backups of our…
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Advice on off-site backup of Hyper-V Failover Cluster

We are currently setting up a Server 2008 R2 which will be off-site over a leased line with VPN. At the main site is 2 x Hyper-V hosts in a failover cluster with PowerVault M3000i iSCSI SAN. We are using BackupAssist for local backups and each…
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Optimal backup to swappable Hard Drive with rsync on OSX

This is close to other questions, but I'm having trouble narrowing down the 'optimal' solution for my use case, if there is one. AFAIK this is not a dupe because OSX has different options relevant for its particular flavor of hard drive format. …
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Why does my backup script work when I run it, but not when it's run via cron?

This is my script, backup_mongo.sh #!/bin/bash suffix=$(date +%w) rm /home/myuser/backup/mongo-$suffix -rf mkdir /home/myuser/backup/mongo-$suffix mongodump -h$1 -u$2 -p$3 -dmydb -o/home/myuser/backup/mongo-$suffix In my crontab -e: 0 3 * * …
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Which Distributed File System as a backend for Cloud Computing?

Possible Duplicate: Which Distributed File System as a backend for Cloud Computing? I have a cloud running on CentOS 5.5 with Eucalyptus2 loaded.The thing is can we integrate some other file system like Parallel file system or Linux ext2fs…
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Is it safe to backup crashed MySQL table?

The cache table (MyISAM) marked as crashed. Is it safe to backup before repair? (I'm worried if the repair process gone wrong)
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SQL Server on EC2: What way do i set up the EBS

Good morning. We have a service with a SQL box on Amazon EC2 and, as suggested on this question, we are using EBS to store the data... the problem is, What is the best way to setup the storage? At the moment, during the Development phase, we have 4…
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Can anyone see why dropbox won't execute in a text only install on ubuntu server using a system user account?

I've been trying to set up dropbox on an ubuntu 10.04.2 server to use for backup. I don't want dropbox to be tied to my user account on the server as someone may take over as administrator with a different user account next year. To achieve this…
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Free (or OS) cloud backup program

I am looking for program which would allow me to backup data from Windows web server 2008 to cloud storage (Amazon, Rackspace and so on) - sites and mssql express backup files and automatically encrypt these files. If what I know is correct that…
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Restoring MySQL user accounts, databases and configuration from backed up /var/lib/mysql directory

Last night, I backed up my Ubuntu 10.10 box using the sbackup utility. The process ran with the default options, which backed up the /etc /home /usr /var directories to a separate partition on my machine. After the backup completed successfully, I…
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How To Backup A Maintenance Plan

I'm using SQL Server Management Studio 2005, and I'm about to make changes to the (rather important) Maintenance Plan. I would like to backup (or export) the Maintenance Plan, so it can be restored (or imported) in case the changes made cause any…
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