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windows: copy with hardlinks for backup

in case I accidentally modify/delete important documents, my linux PC makes daily backups with a script that gets executed by cron and contains the following line. rsync --checksum --recursive ${source} ${dest}/$i…
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How elasticsearch snapshot restore works on cluster?

I am having a ES cluster with 10 nodes having 2 master node. Each node having approx 500 GB of data. I would like to have backup of the whole cluster. Which would be the best possible way to do the same. I have gone through the snapshot and restore…
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Back up git server for disaster management stage

I have a git server and planing to backup it for a disaster situation. I have googled it and got some points to do so are following: git clone repos and push on new server whenever required, can be used locally also. Create a git bundle. I have a…
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PowerShell SQL Job Step Move-Item not working on 1 server

This identical code has been used in 3 servers, and only one of them does it silently fail to move the items (it still REMOVES them, but they do not appear in the share). Azure-MapShare.ps1 param ( [string]$DriveLetter, …
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Bash command to archive files daily based on date added

I have a suite of scripts that involve downloading files from a remote server and then parsing them. Each night, I would like to create an archive of the files downloaded that day. Some constraints are: Downloading from a Windows server to an…
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Rsync - files in destination much bigger than source

I'm trying to set up a backup routine that will copy files like-for-like. I've set up Rsync in a Mac Automator routine to sync a windows formatted removable drive attached to my MacBook to a NAS drive on my wifi network. I'm using 'rsync -va', the…
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Encrypted FTP Storage

I guess this is kind of a programming question, because I'm going to write a program if this doesn't exist. So I found a very cheap web-host (I don't really care about the actual web hosting). They will give me a domain name and ftp server with a…
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Daily and weekly backup strategies

I would like to understand more about Complete GIT backup in Server on everyday or weekly basis. I have tried the @VonC fully and incremental backup script 'sbin/save_bundles', mentioned in this answer, which gives the following error. Error…
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replace azure database with backup

I have a backup file (.bacpac) of an azure database. I'd like to replace the existing azure database with that backup. What is the recommended procedure: importing the backup into a new database and rename the database to the old one? using SSMS…
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svnadmin dump in git

I'm in the process of moving a bunch of my work from personal SVN repo's to git repo's. I've had a cron job setup that runs svnadmin dump every night on all my repos into a remote folder. Is there similar functionality in git? Also, I don't fully…
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(Lightweight) backup strategies for a LAMP application stack?

I'm researching some lightweight tools to backup a LAMP stack. The two most imporatant pieces are the php codebase and the mysql database. I can tar/bz2 the code and a mysqldump and restore it on a new server (if the old one crashes) and this is…
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Can I use an rsync log file from a dry run as an input to a real run?

I like rsync. I can see what files will be deleted first. But what happens if during the backup, a sector of the source disk fails? Files could be deleted from the destination that should not be. However, if I check the log file for all deletion…
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how to backup your mamp pro mysql dbs?

while I find the apache portion of mamp pretty easy to backup, what is everyone using or how are you performing a scheduled backup of your mysql databases? It would be kinda annoying to export each DB one by one. thank you
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Postgresql PITR backup: best practices to handle multiple databases?

Hy guys, i have a postgresql 8.3 server with many database. Actually, im planning to backup those db with a script that will store all the backup in a folder with the same name of the db, for…
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Persistant database state strategies

Due to several edits, this question might have become a bit incoherent. I apologize. I'm currently writing a Python server. It will never see more than 4 active users, but I'm a computer science student, so I'm planning for it anyway. Currently, I'm…
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