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A snapshot is a copy of data taken at a specific point in time.

A snapshot is a copy of data taken at a specific point in time.

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Deleted the data while Amazon EBS Volume While Snapshot in Pending

After I triggered the snapshot of a volume, I go ahead to work on the mounting due to the long hours of waiting and accidentally deleted the data in the volume. Will the snapshot still snap-shoting the previous data of the volume? Thanks.
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Backing up SQL NetApp Snapshots using TSM

In our environment we have a 3 node SQL 2005 Cluster which is on NetApp storage. We are currently using SMSQL (NetApp SnapManager for SQL) to take Snapshot backups of the data. This works great, but due to some audit requirements we are also…
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is it safe to create a snapshot of a volume of a running ec2 instance

I'm running a MongoDB Cluster on 3 Instances on AWS Each instance has 2 EBS attached to it - / [8GB] - /data [50GB] To backup a cluster MongoDB recommends to create a snapshot of the /data driver I created an automated tool that uses AWS-SDK that…
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Improving I/O rates for EBS snapshot backed volumes

I'm working with a system that takes a set of 42 rotating daily EBS snapshots of each of its numerous (40) volumes for disaster recovery purposes. EBS volumes are aggregated into a RAID volume. A set of consistent snapshots are taken by freezing the…
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Boot from VMware snapshot file after accidentally deleting related snapshots

I'll preface this with the obvious: I am dumb. I am currently working from home on some scheduled maintenance on a production server running on a vm -- a bitnami redmine/svn stack to be specific. I was taking a backup of the SVN repository when the…
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SCOM Rule - NTFS - Delayed Write Lost

I have just installed SCOM and it is monitoring a subset of the Windows servers that we have installed. There is one rule which is generating alerts which is giving me a little trouble: NTFS - Delayed Write Lost This is being caused by VMware and…
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BTRFS remove directory from snapshot

There is the: btrfs subvolume delete command for deleting snapshots, but is there any solution if you need to delete a single directory from 60 snapshots? Not possible with rm -rf it will say Read-only file system. Thanks
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Schedule Recreate Snapshot and Reinitialize Subscriptions - SQL 2005

Monthly I have to generate a new snapshot for replication and reinitialize subscriptions in SQL 2005. I would really like to automate and schedule this, but I'm not having much luck discovering how. Not being a DBA I'm pretty much poking around…
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NetApp - Snapshot Full

I am seeing a bunch of Snapshot Full warning events being generated recently from various volumes on our filers: A Warning event at 22 Jun 10:03 Alaskan Daylight Time on Snapshot snapmirror_sql_trns_log.snapshot on Storage System …
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Live Xen snapshotting?

If I use xm save domain dumpfile, this pretty much accomplishes what I want to do. However, this does cause some downtime, and I really don't want to close network connections or take the machine out of memory. What I'd really like is to simply xm…
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Will a Veeam 8 Snapshot Backup be be unable to restore my non-quiescable file-based databases if someone is logged in to them at the time?

We have some very old file-based databases (multi-user, but not Server-based) that are running on some VMs on an VMWare ESXi. Setup HyperVisor The ESXi is running ESXi version 5.1.0 Virtual Machines The VM with Visual Fox Pro is running Windows…
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lvm archive and backup files not purging

I do hourly backups doing snapshots, and every time I do it creates files in /etc/lvm/archive. But lvm doesn't appear to pay any attention to the "retain_days" parameter under "backup" in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf, because I've got 9000+ files there, going…
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LVM2 Thin pool transaction_id mismatch

I believe we trashed some LVM thinpool metadata while moving 2 volume groups to a different machine. We now trying to reactivate the volume groups on the original machine. The physical volumes, volume groups and logical volumes all appear intact,…
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AWS RDS CLI: AccessDenied on CreateDBSnapshot

I want to use the AWS RDS command line tool to create a snapshot of my database my-database using create-db-snapshot. I have created a special backup role in IAM with a policy that allows me to describe, copy and create snapshots. It looks like this…
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How do I enable backup(snapshot) on redis elasticache t2.medium

I was able to create a snapshots of my m1.small caches but the backup button is disabled when I select my t2.medium. Is there a way for me to enable backup of a t2.medium redis elasticache?
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