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Duplicity Incremental Restores

I use duplicity to manage an encrypted daily incremental and weekly full backup schedule for my Linux box. Though duplicity allows incremental backups, I could not find any way to do anything other than a full restore. I'm running a 2nd server where…
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Can "tar" backup incrementally?

I have my home folder with a few GB. Is it possible to run tar on it, create a home.tar.gz, and then for changed files, it creates home1.tar.gz only with modified files from previous tar (thus being an incremental backup)? I would like to check the…
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Windows 2016 incremental backup to network share

I`m new to Windows 2016 Server. Is there a way to make an incremental backup to network share using native backup software? I found only one way to do this - create a virtual hard drive file. Is this a good idea? I'm afraid that the file will break
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best practice? Consumer data in MySQL on Amazon EBS (Elastic block store)

This is a consumer app, so I will care about storage costs - I don't want to have 5x copies of data lying about. The app shards very well, so I can use MySQL and not have scaling issues. Amazon EBS has a nice baseline+snapshot backup capability that…
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Back up incremental snapshots to another volume

I'm looking for a way to implement something close to the following backup scheme: Initially, a full image is copied to the backup target. Periodically (e.g. nightly), only blocks that have changed since the last backup are copied to the backup…
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Backup software that recognizes moved files

I had a similar question a few months ago Good backup/archiving software? Right now i have been using Norton Ghost but i notice if i move large files (100mb+) it will make another copy of it. It eats up gbs like crazy, i need something else. Do you…
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rsync --inplace not reading target file?

I'm trying to optimize the daily backup of a LVM snapshot of a large MySQL database. It works quite ok when I just cp the files (local RAID to other local RAID), with an average speed of ~100MB/s. But since the database files (600GB, most of it in…
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Why keep full and incremental backups in different pools?

I have just started using Bacula and it is great, one tutorial I read recommended putting full backups in a different pool (disk) to incremental backups. What would the benefit of sperating full and incremental backups like this be? What pool would…
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open source backup system with user-driven recovery

At my old company we used NetApp, which supported a ".snapshot" feature. Whenever I did something stupid to my files, I could cd .snapshot and find hourly and nightly directories which contain snapshots of my current directory. I get the file I need…
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How do I backup a couple of macs to a Linux sever?

I currently use rsync with --link-dest to get an incremental Time Machine-ish backup of few sources with a variety of operating systems to a single Linux box. I swap out the backup drive to an external site every so often. One of these sources is a…
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Can rsync do incremental backups if the initial full was done with robocopy?

For example, say I have a full backup done using robocopy. Can I then use rsync to replicate just the changes? Or will rsync do another full copy? I don't want that to happen because it's over a slow WAN link.
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Backing up the open-source edition of Zimbra mail

Background: We run the open-source edition of Zimbra mail (5, not 6 yet) and while it's not something that we want to encourage (prevention is better than a cure), we currently have no way of backing up (or restoring) mail in the system. The Network…
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I want to version control my entire slice

I'm renting a slice (i.e., a VPS) from Slicehost. I've a spent a day or two filling up /usr with my favorite packages, /etc with configs and init scripts, and so on. Now I want to: save this whole setup somewhere (e.g., to load onto another…
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Windows Server 2008 System State Backup

What I'm looking for, is info on what is contained in the server 2008 system state backup. It is incredibly large (10+ G), and annoying to backup remotely. is there a way to take a full system state, and then do like a weekly incremental? I know…
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SQL Server "Quick" Incremental backup?

I'm working on a very large database (250+ gigs) with well over 225 million records. The database is hard to work with simply from its sheer size. This database is read-only. We're looking at getting faster hardware, but either way I'm trying to…
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