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rdiff-backup command restore with date

If a backup was made using rdiff-backup command for some particular date what is the format that should be given to restore the files for that particular date. rdiff-bakup -r "dateformat" backup/a.txt /destination-dir Thanks..
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rdiff-backup command to restore

Let say i have a source directory which contains The contents /foo/a /foo/b(These are the files in a directory on a remote system) using rdiff command i make a backup as rdiff-backup root@192.168.254.111::/foo backups And a,b are now present in my…
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How to backup a linux server to another storage while there is not enough storage space in the system

For example I have a ubuntu server 20.04 with 200gb disk and 150gb of that storage is full. And I want to backup the data in this system to a remote system. Is there a way to push all the data to S3 async? If I want to target a docker db and files…
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Borg asking for key file when upgrading unencrypted repository

Evening, So i have an unencrypted borg backup repository which im trying to upgrade. The problem is, when running the borg backup command borg replies with "no key file found for repository". I'm a bit confused about this situation since the…
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cron / crontab : auto delete oldest backup files when new files get backed up, only if disk space is near capacity

I am using crontab (on Ubuntu Server 20.04) to automatically create daily backups of a text file and storing them on an external hard drive. I am using the following crontab to create my backups: @daily cp ~/myfile.txt /mnt/usb/backups/$(date…
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rsync optimization over --link-dest "referenceBackup"?

Context: I am successfully using rsync to create daily incremental and remote backups using the --link-dest "referenceBackup" flag, so that when creating the new backup, only a new reference is created to an existing and unmodified file. problem:…
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Incremental backup qcow2 image with rsync

I use rsync to backup the qcow2 disks of my virtual machines. However, I would like to be able to get an incremental backup so that I don't have to copy the entire disk every time. for now I use rsync -hav --progress / source / target, the execution…
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How to back up cloud Exchange mailboxes from the client side, without access to the Exchange server?

I admin about 50 users on the Sherweb.com cloud Exchange platform. After an experience today, where a mailbox was deleted accidentally, I discovered that Sherweb's recovery/backup practices only guarantee recovery of data older than 7 days. This…
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Which way should we choose to shorten backup time?

A company performs a full backup for its data in a daily basis for disaster recovery purposes. However, their backup process cannot be completed within the assigned backup time window. What would you recommend to this company about how to…
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How to make differential backup without using archive attribute?

Plain and simple: I need to make differential backup of my files without using the typical file attribute logic. Possibly with a free software. So the software I need should rely on it's own indexing logic to understand which files need do be backed…
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Incremental backups and deleting files

I've been researching various backup software (free and paid) for a while now trying to find one that suits our needs. Basically I want to backup a directory on our web server to a remote ftp server using incremental backups. I've found a few bits…
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Large incremental backup sizes although minimal changes with cPanel tarballs

I am using Bacula and connecting to my cPanel server on a nightly basis at 2am to backup the tar.gz files that were generated the previous day at 6am by cPanel. Note, cPanel is generating a full backup every morning and dumping it to a tar file on a…
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How much space does inc and diff backups take? Acronis Adv. Server 2011

Looking to make a full backup weekly of a 2008 R2 server which has the OS + a 6TB hard drive with install files, Customer bills, and a couple of other things saved on it/to it. After that, do incremental or differential backups daily. At the end of…
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backup error - windows server 2003

I have server loaded with windows 2003 it is scheduled for a system state backup using Ntbackup utility, for some time it worked fine as scheduled , since a couple of days the scheduled backup isn't running, so i have daily manual job of taking…
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Why take both incremental and full backups

Some backup software vendors propose making weekly "full backups" in addition to daily "incremental backups". Point in case: http://novabackup.novastor.com/blog/differential-incremental-backup/ I have the following problem with this: If you do…
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