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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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Rsync and wildcards

I am trying to back up both the "Last Session" and "Current Session" files for Google Chrome in one command, but using a wildcard doesn't seem to work. I am trying with the following command rsync -e "ssh -i new.key" -r --verbose -tz --stats…
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Easy Offsite Backup

I've got a client that needs some form of daily offsite backup. He's got about 100GB of various files, including a 30GB SQL Server database that he really should be getting off of his own server and somewhere safe in the cloud on a daily…
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How to set up replication on SQL Server 2008

Say you have a production database and a staging database that you want to have replicate on a semi-hourly basis across the internet. The general intent is to have a stand-by backup, but also to have second read-only database for testing. How would…
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Easy to restore Windows 2008 backup to another server?

I am using the native Windows 2008 backup to do nightly backups. It is using an entire drive as the backup. Can I restore the files on a different machine completely, or does it have to be on the same machine? Does it work the same way in Windows 7…
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Microsoft SQL server backup : restoring data to one table

Is there an easier way to restore data to single table in an MSSQL server, rather taking down the database and restoring the entire database?
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Managing a Mobile Work force

One of my responsibilities is to manage my mobile users, Sales, Support, Exec, etc. For those out there who do the same how do you do it? I know it's a very broad question but how do you keep them up to date with the latest patches, virus defs, etc…
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Backing Windows Server 2008 Foundation

I'm about to buy a server from Dell. A very basic 1st generation server that will act as a file server. I want to have this thing back up onto an external hard drive nightly. What's an inexpensive solution to doing this? When configuring the options…
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How to backup the configuration of a cisco switch and ASA to an SMB windows share?

How do I backup the configuration of a Cisco switch and ASA to an SMB Windows share? I have full enabled admin through SSH. what would be the full command to save it to an SMB share? Is it "show run, save as smb://user:pass@192.168.1.3/folder???
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How to enforce rsync against performing checksum?

We perform nightly backups of a Windows file server by first creating an incremental backup file on the server each night (as well as a complete backup on Thursday night), and then copying that to a backup server running Linux/Ubuntu. In order to…
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Restore Oracle data from file system backup

If I have backed up the complete file-system on a machine's hard-drive, can I use restore it and expect Oracle database to be consistent? The backup software backed up all files on the hard-disk using VSS.
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Large Microsoft Backup

We recently added a new server to our system with a 6 TB RAID array for file storage of completed audio and video projects. We have traditionally been a Microsoft house, so I used Windows Server 2008 for the new machine. When I went to make my…
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create an image of currently linux installed with ssh?

I just bought a dedicated server with debian 6. I will install the classic LAMP. Is there a way to make an image of the hard disk so in case of any problems I can restore this image? Thanks
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SQL Server VSS Writer, Hyper-V and SQL Server 2008 backups

I have a virtual server running SQL Server 2008 R2. On the server I have configured two maintenance plans, one that takes differential backups every day except Saturday and a job that takes full backups on Saturdays. Now when I tried to restore a…
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Monitoring Rsnapshot

I have been using rsnapshot for backing up a few servers quite successfully and have been relatively pleased with it save for one major issue: monitoring. For those of you who use rsnapshot, how do you monitor it? I would like some way to verify…
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Help starting to design a VAR's backup strategy for many independent customers?

Is there any particular backup / imaging software which seems to be a good fit for our situation, or is there some other direction I should be looking in to meet our requirements? I realize this is a strangely-written question. Please comment if…
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