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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 Synology NAS drives good for remote backup?

I am looking for an affordable remote backup solution for my small business network. I've tried the Seagate Blackarmor 220 in the past and I HATE IT! Essentially the only option it provides me for remote backup is standard FTP (not even SFTP) and…
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Automated backup over FTPS? What is the best software to achieve this?

I'm looking for a relatively easy to set up / maintain solution for backup to a remote location over FTPS on a Windows OS. We currently use Mozy, but would like a second backup to a server on our premises (the server to be backed up is remote). We…
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Is an SQL Server (Express 2008 R2) database operational during backup? How about consistency?

I am expecting to have a long backup on a certain database and I was wondering if the application can access (read only? read/write?) it while it is being backed up. If read/write access would be available then how will consistency be achieved?…
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Performance problem with QNAP TS-410 NAS

We have a QNAP TS-410 in our office. Its hardware is: 256MB DDR2 RAM CPU Marvell 6281 800MHz 4 x 1.4GB Seagate SATA disks mounted on RAID5 We thought it would be sufficient to make backups for our servers, but we have encountered several…
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Can you dump tables from a non-functional postgresql database?

I have a postgres's data directory from another system, and I'm trying to get it to work enough to dump the data into sql files. Unfortunately, postgresql is broken with the copied in data directory (I realize this isn't the right way to handle…
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How can I use Dirvish without enabling root logins in sshd?

I am configuring a backup server using Dirvish which will backup several Ubuntu servers over the Internet. As part of our security policy, we don't allow ssh logins as root on our servers. How can I use Dirvish to backup my servers, without logging…
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Strategy for using snapshots to back up Ubuntu Linux server?

I need some backup advice for my home file server. Here are the mount points, volume groups, logical volumes and used/total space of all the volumes on my Ubuntu 8.10 home file server. / vgA/lvRoot [7.5G/50G] /tmp vgB/lvTmp…
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Can SQL Server 2008 allow you to backup to a Mapped Network Drive?

My SQL Server 2008 R2 has a mapped network drive (called Y:/) which reconnects after a reboot (I just checked this). When I try to backup a Database (TASKS -> BACKUP). The network drive Y: is not listed as a possible destination. When I try to…
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AWS S3 and EBS backup?

I'm rather new to Amazon Web Services. I have a question regarding S3 and EBS. Do I have to backup an S3 or EBS service? Are these types of storage secure and backuped by amazon itself?
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Backup of machines running linux and windows

I have a problem concerning backup. I have a network (constructed using Wireless 150Mbps and Gigabit ethernet) consisting in at least 3 computers (plus maybe 2 in remote). I have a plan to construct a linux server {pretty powerful} which will do…
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Help for creating a bat file to schedule a backup

I have a mdb file at C:\Program Files\ApplcationName\filename.mdb. Please let me know the COPY command to take a backup using .bat file to a folder C:\Backup. In short i am having probles because of the space between "Program" and…
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Backing up a SQL Server 2008 R2 Database without stored procedures

Is it possible to back up a SQL Server database, but only back up the Table structures and content (i.e. not include the stored procedures, views etc?) The scenario: We have a data centre hosted product with one unique database per customer. For…
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Firefox can't find the file at http://localhost/phpmyadmin/export.php

I have a huge 1.6 GB MYSQL database on my wamp local server. I want to shift this database to another computer, so in phpmyadmin, when I export the database and click GO for download the sql file, then it takes around 5-10 mins to load and at-last…
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gmail/email backup server - how'd i go grabbing emails off imap, and serving them out again?

Since the hosting service that we use has a paltry 200 mb, we're using gmail as a repository of our mails. It works spectacularly well, for an ugly hack, but there have been incidents where mail has dissappeared off gmail. We haven't been affected,…
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Amazon EC2 + EBS:: Regular backup plan?

I have read some articles about amazon ec2 instances and ebs. I found out that, the data on the instance are not persistent, which means, if the hardware fails, instance shut down, I will lost my data. Hence, what is your backup plan for this…
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