Questions tagged [incremental-backup]
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bacula virtual full backup
I've searched a lot without finding a clear documentation.
Following the instructions provided here https://www.bacula.org/9.4.x-manuals/en/main/Migration_Copy.html#SECTION003050000000000000000 it seem that to run a virtual full backup, bacula need…
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how to attach snapshot policy by label to all the vms in my project?
I have created the snapshot schedule policy with label daily,weekly,hourly.But I want an automate way so whenever i create the vm label based policy should be assigned to vm. or
automatically attach my scheduler to vm disks whenver i create new vm…
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How to easily store incremental backups of a linux server on a remote windows machine?
Good evenening!
I'm searching for an easy way of storing incremental backups of a linux server on a remote windows home server. Both machines have their own static IP address. The linux machine is a Ubuntu virtual server machine, which should save…
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rsnapshot produces a double backup of localhost/media
I use rsnapshot in my Xen host to backup all vms via their snapshots.
Now rsnapshot backups everything double, because it creates an extra "localhost" folder in each daily backup, that contains everything in /media/snapshots again.
for example those…
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Is GNU tar incremental backup reliable if ext4 is mounted with noatime?
My system is running on SSD on top of LVM logical volume, formatted to ext4. I'm using noatime option at my fstab for this partition.
I'm going to do incremental backups of system partition using LVM snapshot feature and GNU tar.
As I see in…
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Transitioning from rsync to ZFS send/receive
I recently converted my backup server and offsite backup server to ZFS. I used to use rsync to do incremental backups to the offsite server, but now I would like to transition to using ZFS send and receive (over ssh).
The issue I have is that I…
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fail to perform Incremental Backup with TAR
Environment: Ubuntu 16.04 in Azure
I'm attempting to backup specific folders. I'm using a simple tar command with no compression. My objective is to keep the file for a month, adding changes incrementally once per day, then compress tar and start…
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Backup LXD container to an other LXD host
I have two servers A and B which are running Ubuntu 16.04 and an RAID1 ZFS file system for LXD. At the moment there are a few containers running on server A. Now my idea to make nightly backups from each container on server A to server B. This way I…
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backuppc can't complete full backup. read error
I'm using backuppc on debian wheezy, the backup service never completes the first initial backp. I keep getting the "Parent read EOF from child: fatal error!" error. Tried to look it up, doesn't seem to tell me much about my problem. Tried nearly…
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Bash script to backup new or modified files inside a directory
Does anyone have a bash script that will only backup new or modified files inside a specific directory?
Basically, what I'm looking for is an incremental backup. I've been running a full backup for a couple days now and it's just not practical.
Jacob
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fast backup script in linux
I have a server with more applications and do normal shell command to take backups. it took couple of days to complete. Tried to install duplicity. but its told some packages are not found. its Debian 2.6 in server.
Is there is decent industry…
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Rotating incremental backups using xfsdump
With rsync I can create a set of incremental backups, and delete backups older than a certain age. Then the oldest backup becomes the new base backup, essentially.
Is this possible with xfsdump? Once I create 9 backup levels for a media object, can…
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Syncing rsnapshot backup drives
I have a pair of USB drives I use for backing up to via rsnapshot. One drive is left plugged in and the other is taken off site. For the first swap, I ran "rsync -aH" to copy all the contents from current drive onto the offsite drive. This…
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7z “is not supported archive” while updating an archive
7za u -pPasswored -mhe=on -r -m0=lzma -mx=9 -mfb=64 -md=32m '-x!temp' filename.7z /home/software
While updating the archive we are getting this error:
Error: XXXXXXX.7z is not supported archive
System error:
Operation not permitted
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is scheduled backup via standard windows backup gui supported over network?
OS Windows server 2008 Standard [note: this is not R2]
Plot we are trying to switch from usb attached backups to over the network backup
Issues: When i use the standard Windows backup GUI and select one time backup it actually lets me do what i…
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