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Backup Strategy: Online Off-site backup like Time Machine

I've a linux VPS hosted in a VPS datacenter. I need to implement backup on it. I'll order The Planet's Stored Cloud to do this. http://www.theplanet.com/cloud-storage/ My question is about the Backup Strategy: Today I have other servers and I use a…
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Azure Backup Change Source Location

I have a small client who uses Azure Backup and Replication to perform a cloud backup of profile data and a file share that was sitting on a failing NAS. I mounted the new NAS via ISCSI to the file server and performed an overnight robocopy of the…
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Should this be the last backup of the year?

I have a question about a Grandfather, Father, Son 21 Backup Strategy... (the 21 stands for the number of volumes) which I have worked out on the following spreadsheet (see in Google Drive):…
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Offsite Incremental Encrypted Backups for a small law office

I am the system administrator for a small law office. We have a local file server on our network that holds all of our digital records. The server is running Windows 8, but uses Cygwin. I currently have this server being incrementally backed up…
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How can I see the expire date of a file in Tivoli Storage Manager?

If I understand correctly, when I do an incremental backup and a file has been removed from the client, the server marks it as inactive which makes it eligible for purging when the expire time has passed. Using the dsmc client on a linux server I…
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Windows 2012 Incremental Backup

I'm running Windows 2012, using the built in Backup to perform backups. I want the first backup to be full, and then incremental thereafter. I have the following test scenario set up: Backup Location is to a mounted VHD disk with no automatic…
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Backup Linux server onto windows server or DPM server/owner and rights in NTFS?

We are using a rsync based backup for our Lonux servers which is fantastic. We rsync all our Linux server onto our large Linux base samba fileserver. Unfortunately that server is completely outdated and migrated over to Active Directory. Now I'm…
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Will a Veeam 8 Snapshot Backup be be unable to restore my non-quiescable file-based databases if someone is logged in to them at the time?

We have some very old file-based databases (multi-user, but not Server-based) that are running on some VMs on an VMWare ESXi. Setup HyperVisor The ESXi is running ESXi version 5.1.0 Virtual Machines The VM with Visual Fox Pro is running Windows…
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How to incrementally backup XenServer VMs

I am looking for a way to backup XenServer (or XAPI) VMs incrementally. backup just changed data every time. without performance penalty, slowing down the server after the backup is done (snapshots do that, right?) with possibility to go back in…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 backup - what is generating all the change data?

We have a small, relatively idle Windows Server 2008 R2 installation that does basic file sharing and hosts Exchange for about 10 not very active users. When running a windows server backup, the daily incremental data is about 20GB. This is not…
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What's the best way to schedule a command to run, assuring a previous set of commands have completed?

Namely, I need to rotate backup folders. I have many machines on a schedule to rsync to a single backup machine. Although I schedule the backups to begin in the late evening, and schedule a folder rotation (to make folder day0 become day1,…
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Bandwidth-friendly backup strategy using tar?

We've used tar to backup and compress (gzip) selected directories on our file server with very good results until recently. Each and every one of our backups are stored on mirrored (RAID) harddrives and simultaneously uploaded to a Amazon S3 bucket…
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How to write rsync command to backup everything except hardware specific files

I have a VPS production server that serves web apps that I make for clients. I have an rsync cron job running on my dev server that does a daily backup of the entire production…
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Why do I need to backup the Exchange Logs during a Full VSS backup

Suppose I have a backup application that performs scheduled backups of my Exchange Server using the VSS API: Why does the backup application need to backup all the log files as well as the .edb file if the Exchange VSS writer already causes all the…
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Duplicity "add-only" incremental backup

I have a large duplicity backup stored in a server that would be too slow and costly to fully restore, but I want to perform an incremental backup of a relatively small amount of data that was missing from the initial backup. I already have the…
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