Questions tagged [backup-strategies]
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How to stream files to tar using a chunking approach?
I want to backup my system by invoking a tar'ing script over ssh that pipes back to stdout for the ssh-initiating host to then store the tar.
However, I want to perform logical dumps of some services running on that host, but do not have enough disk…
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Docker containers safe upgrade best practice
I manage several applications running under docker (Nexus, Gitlab, and so on), with its own storage mapped to host disks.
Often they get updated, so I have to upgrade them.
Sometimes they introduce breaking changes which prevent the containers to…
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Hashicrop Vault Backup with file backend
I have a small instance of Hashicorp Vault, running the Open Source edition. I am using the 'file' storage backend for my configuration. I do not have a need for high-availability and to simplify things, the file backend is adequate for my…
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Efficient way to take hot snapshots from redis in production?
We have redis cluster which holds more than 2 million and these keys has been updated with the time interval of 1 minute. Now we have a requirement to take the snapshot of the redis db in a particular interval For eg every 10 minute. This snapshot…
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Dynamic exclusion list in lsyncd
Our cloud platform is powered by opennebula. So we have two instances of the frontend in "cold swap". We use lsyncd daemon trying to keep instances in datastores synced, but there are some points: we don't want to sync VM's images that have an…
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How to archive old CosmosDB data to Azure Table using Azure Data Factory when CosmosDB collection documents have different properties?
I'm trying to archive old data from CosmosDB into Azure Tables but I'm very new to Azure Data Factory and I'm not sure what would be a good approach to do this. At first, I thought that this could be done with a Copy Activity but because the…
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How to create a git backup on a repo that's using lfs?
Trying to set up a backup strategy to have rolling backup of multiple git repos and from the research it seems that git bundling is the most complete solution, but use case that I cannot find in the documentation is how does it handle git LFS.
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Continuous database backups?
I have the following scenario:
Our system is running a SQL Server Express 2005 database locally (on each users desktop, if you will). The system is storing a lot of production data from a machine. There are high demands on the safety of the data,…
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Incremental backups: how to track file deletions
I have an offsite backup solution which runs on C++ to break the files into blocks, and keeps track of the blocks using md5 hashes on a SQLITE3 database. And it transfers the blocks along with the database to a remote site.
So, when I want to do a…
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how to backup elasticsearch cluster
i have elasticsearch cluster running. as of now there is no backup enabled till now neither S3 or NAS. we want to upgrade elasticsearch cluster on a new servers and the data size is 100gb of 2 indexes.
since we dont have backup, can we copy the…
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Stream rdiff - delta differencing?
I have a product that does online backups using rdiff. What currently happens is:
Copy the file to a staging area (so the file won't disappear or be modified while we work on it)
Hashes the original file, and computes an rdiff signature (used for…
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A basic SQL Server Backup strategy / tool
I have a SQL Server 2014 running on Windows Server 2012 R2. I want to back it up daily and store backups on some remote cloud storage for reliability. Basically, that is all of my requirements.
Is there a tool that can help with this? The easier…
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Auto backup Azure Tables used by a WebApp in Azure Portal
My Azure WebApp stores data in Azure Storage Tables and Blob storage.
There is a backup functionnality, but as I understood it just does not support azure tables/blobs... however I would like to automatically backup my tables to protect against…
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Maintenance window and recovery for a large database
One of our teams is developing a database that will be somewhat large (~500GB) and grow from there (I know 500 Gigs may seem small to many of you, but it will be one of the larger databases in our shop). One of the issues they are grappling with is…
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Restore pg_basebackup on Linux which was created from a Windows hosted database cluster
Currently I am doing some Research on how to set up streaming replication for a HA postgresql architecture. But this issue is also relevant for us for backup/restore and maintenance in mixed environments in general.
Our "main" postgresql server is…
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