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Differential system backup at startup

I got a Linux Ubuntu Server, where system has its own 5 gig partition. Ive recently made a backup of this system partition into an .img file using dd. Since it is a system partition I needed to boot using live CD, mount the drive and then call dd…
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Is it possible with NT Backup (or MS Backup) to restore all of the latest files from a certain folder out of an incremental backup file?

I am using MS Backup on a Windows Server 2003 to backup our key folders at my work. The backup is set up as an incremental backup job where it only backs up any files that have changed since the last time the backup was run. Periodically I have to…
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Creating diff from a tar

There is a tar file which was created few days before, this tar file was created on the /files directory. And now /files directory has new files uploaded in it. My question is how to create another files with only the new files uploaded. Thanks..
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Windows data backups with alternating removable drives?

I have a removable disk drive (RD1000 from Dell), and I am looking for backup software that will allow me to backup every night, and every morning switch to the alternate disk. There is only one directory structure to back up, what I want is two…
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Free Backup Software that supports Incrementals

We currently use Esxpress for our production servers but am wondering if there are any free alternatives that will do incremental or "delta" backups of VM's? Preferably for ESX and ESXi. Thanks, Matt
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How to check the last time a directory was modified in linux

I am trying to write a backup solution, which will take snapshots of a folder using hardlinks and rsync, every hour it will run though its thing, and take the snapshot. I have most of it sorted already, it's just small details that I'm missing. I'm…
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Maintain a single backup of Exchange 2003 onto a remote computer over the internet

How do I maintain a single up to date backup of our Exchange 2003 server onto a remote computer, connected over the internet? We still take nightly backups onto tape but we want something completely automated. Set it and forget it. Our tape…
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Mariabackup error restoring incremental (`This incremental backup seems not to be proper for the target`)

I use mariabackup for creating incremental backups on a previously created full backup directory. The full backup is created using the following command: mariabackup --backup --target-dir=/var/mariadb/backup/ And the subsequent incremental backups…
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What behavior has tar on TERM signal while doing incremental backup?

I've written a backup script in python using tar (via subprocess) to do incremental backups of my files. As some of the full backups are rather big (like my picture folder) and take multiple hours to be finished (over the network to my NAS), I'm…
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explain rsnapshot incremental rotation

Need help on rsnapshot. I am doing full backup every week with bash scripting which is costly for disk space. Now I am thinking to use rsnapshot and what I want to do with rsnapshot is do a weekly incremental backup and monthly full backup. So, this…
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Butterfly Backup server

I have a Butterfly Backup server. I implemented a solution as described in this article: dev.to. In my sever list, I have two NAS, used as user file repositories; the files change and are changed every minute. For this reason, I have chosen to…
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Remote incremental backups with rsync?

I'm trying to set up rsync to send incremental backups to a remote server. The first backup would go to a "backup" folder, then the next backup would send only the changes to a "backup.1" folder, and so on. I managed to do this locally with the…
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Automatic deletion of backups and transaction logs leaves broken backup points

TLDR: default log shipping job and maintenance plan are deleting old files from disk but backups are still displayed in SSMS making it very slow to display "Restore" window. How to delete old .trn/.bak correctly? (Azure virtual machine, Windows…
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rsync to much upload data

I have an issue with an incremental backup using rsync. My issue rsync that it sends 150 GB of data to the backup server, however only 10 GB maximum have been changed on the server. I can't figure out why rsync is sending these 150 GB of data…
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Is it possible to setup an incremental backup strategy (e.g. WHS' version) on Windows Server 2008?

Windows Home Server (WHS) has an excellent incremental background strategy. It keeps diff. snapshots of the last three days, one for each of the last three weeks, and one for each of the last three months. Here is the Wikipedia article on…
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