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Is there an equivalent of volume space reclamation in Bacula?

I recently met a guy using Tivoli Storage Manager. He talked about "volume reclamation", which copies only the files of incremental backup which are newer than the retention period/number of version we want to keep. As a result, it is possible to…
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How to configure multiple hostfiles to split big backups in BackupPC?

With my current configuration the BackupPC creates one rsync(of tar for local) process per host. My config file is following: /etc/BackupPC/pc/myhost.pl: $Conf{RsyncShareName} = '/data'; In my /data I have many folders /data/01 /data/02 /data/03. I…
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Incremental backups from Rackspace Cloud Files to Amazon Glacier

Is there a software product/module (open-source or commercial) that can provide incremental backups from Rackspace Cloud Files to Amazon Glacier? We are looking for something that will provide the following functionality (or achieve the same result,…
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rsync incremental as a get

Is it possible for rsync to be used on 1 backup server and then connect to all the other servers and grab files and backup incrementally? my current command: (how ever this is more a PUT then a GET) rsync -avz -e ssh /home…
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Create a SQL Server full backup without affecting maintenance plan?

We use a centralized SQL Server 2005 server for web development. The server has a maintenance plan to take a full backup each Sunday and incremental backups on all other nights. All databases use the Simple Recovery Model, so transaction logs are…
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which linux distro favours remote administration and remote incremental backup over vpn?

My partner runs a small accounting practice. The computer support guy has recently gone out of business, so I've been volunteered (!) to replace the aging company server. I should say that my background is in C++ development, so I don't get much of…
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How to mirror server with 150 GB of data

I have a linux server whic is used as web/file/svn/sql server. It is accessed by 100 machines for storing their code files on this server(svn/code/mysql). The OS is on a 80 GB HDD. The data is on another 500 GB HDD. Which is the best way to make a…
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MySQL incremental backups and database replication

We have some servers that runs a tomcat app with a MySQL database. These servers are in different cities and the web app is used locally by our customers. On these servers a crontab job runs twice a day and make a full backup of databases and send…
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Do incremental backups from Linux

I want to make incremental backups on a Linux machine, on the next way: BACKUP1 BACKUP2 | | | | |--- file1 |--- file1 (symlink to file1 in backup1 because it hasn't changed) | …
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GFS Backup Rotation

If I implement a brand new GFS backup rotation, where M-Th I'm running incremental backups, and on Friday I run a Full backup, how will the first incremental backup that runs on Monday know what to backup? My understanding is that the incremental…
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Interruptible, incremental backup tool with timing strategies

Basically, I'm searching for a rdiff-backup that can be safely interrupted (network disconnection, computer switch off, sleep), and that can develop scheduling strategies to in order to avoid interruptions (nonetheless). Scheduling strategies would…
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dirvish doesn't backup NFS mount

I do incremental backups using dirvish. (dirvish makes incremental backups using rsync and hardlinks). This has worked perfectly on our old server (nothing fancy, just a linux box with one disk on /). On our new server we have a special mount for…
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How do I improve my incremental-backup performance?

I'm currently using the traditional rsync+cp -al method to create incremental/snapshot backups of our server tree. The backups are going onto a pair of eight-disk towers connected to the backup machine (a Sandy Bridge machine with 16 GB of RAM,…
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backing up my linux server to my windows machine

I have a linux server. several days ago one of HDDs attached to the server crashed and i was very lucky not to loose anything important cause that was my backup HDD. Now i'm looking for a solution to do incremental backup up of all important stuff…
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Autorotating Incremental/incremental backups with cron

i need a backup script (or tool) for my Ubuntu Server. Simple packing a folder into a tar.gz cron.d is quite easy to do. But the problem is, with every update there are several 100 MB of data. So I tought of having a incremental backup, with a…
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