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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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My server is about to be switched off. I run a LAMP set up, what should I back up?

My hosting company may cut me off. Any ideas on what files I should back up? I am running RedHat 4.1. How would I save my current PHP set up? Can I just save the .so files? MySQL - is backing up the data directory and my.cnf enough? Apache -…
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Source manager vs Backups

I need to get input of some it proffessional. My point is, when you have developpement, example, web developpement and you get some .cs files, aspx files, .css , .js and you get somme graphic files like .psd etc ... What is the best solutions to…
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Rackspace offsite backup

Is it necessary to do offsite backups when you're on Rackspace? Rackspace does daily image backups of the server, which does backups every half hour. If the server is hacked, and all backups are removed, there'd still be the image backup. Then…
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Backup Solution for windows and ubuntu

Are there any solutions out there that will backup all windows and ubuntu machines on my home network? This needs to happen nightly. I am looking for something like Windows Home server(which currently works freat for windows only machines), however,…
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Backup on a remote server

We have just solved the problem of stolen server by hiding an external backup unit in a different room of our office. Now the problem is fire and all the other possilble disaster that can happen. We used to do an FTP upload of a password portected…
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Is it possible to restore a backup of a physical machine to a machine with disparate hardware?

I have seen some backup software advertise the ability to restore an image of a physical machine to completely different hardware. Is this really possible? Also, is this easily done with sysprep? Thanks
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Strategy for making incremental backups

Currently I back up my personal files using a simple shell script that creates a tarball. It is being run by cron hourly. I'm planning to switch to incremental backups (I will use duplicity), because this will minimize the data transfer over…
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Windows server 2008 r2: Backup notifications

Is it possible to have Windows server 2008 r2 notify, preferably by e-mail, when a backup failed or had warnings? We've had the issue of having backups that are incomplete (luckily detected before there was any need for the backups), but we don't…
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Gathering backups logs for Windows Server Backup

I have a few servers running Windows Server Standard SP2, all of which are running windows server backup. It runs daily, and I would like to receive a notification that the backups have completed successfully/Failed. I see there is another…
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How to backup Windows Server 2008 R1 to a windows network share?

I need to perform weekly backup of the whole Windows Server 2008 R1 to a Windows Network Share. I cannot put services off. I have used the Task Scheduler and this, small bat file: c: cd \Windows\system32 wbadmin.exe START BACKUP…
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wbadmin doesn't run as scheduled task

Continued from: wbadmin system state backup fails When I put the following a bat file and run it as scheduled task, I see that the webadmin.exe process starts but it never seems to create backup: wbadmin start systemstatebackup…
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diff for binary files

I have a folder with one big file. This is a file that changes each day. Using tar for incremental backups is not a good idea as that big file (each file that is changed is saved) will be copied each day that an incremental backup is made. Is there…
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MS SQL 2005 -- backing up to a shared directory

I have a SQL 2005 virtual machine running Windows 2003 on a 2008 server under hyper-v and I need to start backing up my databases to a shared folder. I have created similar backup jobs in other environments with no problems. The difference is that…
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Thousands of files to backup...overhead killing us

We have a system that generates literally 5k - 10k XML files each day. It's a long story but that system will not change for a while. Anyway, the system dumps these XML files (3k-20k each) into ONE folder. So imagine how quickly that folder starts…
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Clever way to rotate portable media where we store backup

We are a small company and we backup all our data daily on an external HD. We are 5 of us. Each of us has got an external hard drive that brings everyday from home. That HD gets written with the daily backup and the guy brings the HD back home. This…
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