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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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Backing up a SQL Server vm by doing a complete vm backup as opposed to individual dbs?

Is backing up a SQL Server via doing a complete backup of the VM image rather than backing up individual databases a bad practise? I can imagine that backing up the entire image looses the granularity of having several tlogs of each db for each day.…
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best way to backup data from disk failure?

As lots of people prefer to backup data to multiple backup storage, this is not a perfect choice. Lets say a video file stored in a server which connected to hundreds of other server in cluster. The backup mechanism automatically backup every day to…
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How to backup postfix?

I am putting together a list of things that I need to backup, on my website. I am using postfix for handling my mail. Which files in /etc/postfix (if any) do I need to backup? My goal is that after I restore from backup files, I should have all my…
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How to backup a specific SQL Server Schema's table?

In my SQL Server database, I have multiple schemas. I would like to backup only a specific schema's tables to a format that can easily be restored. Example: [dbo].[Trucks] [dbo].[Cars] [unknown].[Trucks] [unknown].[Cars] How can I backup only the…
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Debian/Linux backup files changed by user

I would like to backup my server that is hosting a few websites in such a way that I can restore everything to the way it was from a fresh format. I know that I should backup all the home folders and then probably my /etc/ folders. Is there a way to…
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Backups for online businesses - better external hard drives or tape drives

We are an online business. Currently we are using DVD's for our backups. The problem is we are running out of space. We are considering two alternatives here: external hard disk drives tape drives We require a copy to be taken off-site every time…
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Hyper-v Core backup so slow across LAN

Our T610 server has 2 Gb NICs and a guest VHD thats 28GB in size. When I copied that VHD from our file server [Server 2003] to the local drive on hyper_v core it took over 3 hours. This concerns me as I wanted to move backups back out to the…
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MS SQL differential backup strategies

We recently had a failure on one of our servers. The server was not accessible and we could get any data from it. We had a backup plan that took a full backup every second day and then then a diff backup every 6 hour or something. I use Jungle Disk…
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What's the most efficient way of taking backup snapshots of a mysql database over the internet?

Ok The situation is this: We currently use mysqldump and then bzip2 compress the result and scp it back to our backup server. This is a time consuming manual process and there are no snapshots created. I am currently experimenting with rsync…
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Security implications of adding a computer account to folder security

The backup job on my SharePoint 2007 (server A) fails since the job running under local NETWORK SERVICE account tries to access a remote share(Server B) to store backup files. Adding Server A' computer account(domain\ServerA$) to the Server B's…
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most trouble/hassle free way of running a backup of a server

We're running windows server 2003 and as of now, we are using NTBACKUP - however, we are looking for another tool, preferably something free which offers mediocore features. The reason we want to move away from NTBACKUP is that it is not very…
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Scaling Up NFS-Mounted Web-servers & Online File Storage

So, few months ago my boss throws at me "what happens we needed to scale to X clients, in a reasonably short period of time." sort of scenarios, somewhat of an engineering challenge if anything else, but of course more clients means more income. …
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SQL Server 2008 Database 250GB on a 250GB drive

Started a new job and there is a 2008 sql database that is 250gb in size. The developers insist that the size is about right. THe problem is that the 250gb MDF file is sitting on a 250GB drive. I have tried to do a backup of the database but i get…
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How to copy directories using debugfs?

The debugfs manpage gives the impression that the command 'rdump . .' will recursively copy all files found on the specified filesystem from the debugfs cwd to the native filesystem's cwd. Instead I seem to receive a syntax error, and no copy is…
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Backup plan for linux webserver in small business?

I am currently in the process of writing a backup plan for the webserver in use by my business. I am very new to this area and have a few ideas about how things should work but am unsure of what tools to use and what sort of restore process is…
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