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Questions tagged [incremental-backup]

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How to have rsnapshot link to original files?

I'd like rsnapshot to not create a second copy of all my files and instead just have hardlinks to the original files and only save a copy of changes. I have a windows and linux server. I would like to have backups of my linux system stored onto the…
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rdiff-backup bug or error? Disk quota exceeded but that is not true

I want to make a backup with rdiff-backup. I have a backup VPS and I want to get the datas from remote host. Here it is my command what I used: rdiff-backup root@**RemoteIP**::/remotesourcefolder/ /targetlocalfolder/ After some seconds, they throw…
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Adding snapshoting capability to a QA lab made of pyshical machines

Due to the nature of our application we can't run and test it on virtualization. I would like to have the ability to revert to a previous clean state and (if possible) have some kind of snapshoting (only of disk not RAM ofc). The following options…
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my local backup request

So our current backup system has stopped working. We had 4 harddrives on rotate, each taking 2 days and sunday being skipped. Each backup doing a FULL backup. I did NOT design this! All 4 harddrives are not working suddenly. I am investigating it…
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Consolidating multiple backupsites to centrally managed backup

We're a medium sized business with about 50 different geographical sites of varying sizes (infrastructure/user/server wise). Today we have local backupservers on most sites, that take filelevel full and differential backups of the servers in their…
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Definition of differential and incremental backups

On Wikipedia in german about Archivbit, I read the following: Full backup: The full backup backs up all files - regardless of their attributes - and resets the archive attribute. Differential backup: The differential backup backs up all files that…
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How many incremental backups to keep with Percona xtrabackup?

I'm looking to replace an aging and decidedly suboptimal mysqldump-based database backup strategy with Percona's Xtrabackup. This all looks pretty straightforward, except that I'm wondering: how many incremental backups should I keep between full…
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rsync last 3 days plus weekly backups

I have a shell script that i'll be running with a crontab. Basically I want to modify this so I can do daily backups for the last 3 days. I've seen examples where the last 7 days are backup. I just need the last 3 rolling days. I know I would have…
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Rotating Backups with RSync and CP - Excludes not working perfectly

My script looks essentially like this: cp -al $yesterdays_snapshot $todays_snapshot rsync -vadlH --exclude-from excludes.rsyc $source $todays_snapshot This works great except for one problem: If yesterday I had no excludes, but then today I realize…
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How do I backup 50GB+ of files on a linux box to a remote sftp account

How do I backup 50GB+ of files on a linux box to a remote sftp account. My requirements Store several versions of the backups. Encrypted before sent to remote server. Disk and bandwidth efficent, think incremental. Using simple linux commands…
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Amanda backup with SSH fails both client and localhost

I'm trying to get Amanda working with SSH auth. After I installed it on a server and did a basic configuration with harddisk as tape, I got it up and running, no client support though. But I did get backups on my localmachine at least. Then I…
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Differential backup missing moved folders (flawed archive attribute logic)

Recently I've discovered that my backup system it flawed: there are situation where various files/folders are missed. I do my backup from local disk to a network NAS. I use Cobian backup, and I have setup the backup software to create one full…
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Server Backup Options?

I currently have a dedicated server running Apache (I can supply more specs if needed), but I'm trying to setup automatic full backups to run every night. Preferably I'd like to be able to put them on our mac mini server every night. Is there any…
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Remote backup grabbing

I have 2 servers. 1 is main. 2 is backup. I would like 2 to log in and grab files from 1 and backup on 2 with rsnapshot. Is this possible? I was looking at the config setup and saw this: backup_script ssh root@example.com "mysqldump -A >…
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what does the --backup-mode option for rdiff mean?

I've got rdiff-backup up & running nicely using cron jobs over SSH between two VMs (my webserver and a backup space), using scripts put together from various places online. I'm backing up various folders, including database dumps, /etc and /var/www.…
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