The act of saving one's files, data, applications, etc. to secondary media, allowing for the recovery of the files, data, applications, etc. in the event that the primary media becomes unavailable (fails). Also the secondary media used for storage.
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Is SQL Server's filetable suitable for storing big files (bigger than 10 GB)?
There is a project for lab. The requirement to save the lab data (raw data and related infomation ) for research for years. So the data must be saved for years, but the data is so big, every raw data is more than 10 GB. If we store the raw data in…

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how to sync third party app data backup automatically via iTunes
I worked on app in which user can add images and make notes about those images, which i stored in sqlite and i store cards in document directory. I have enabled file Sharing option in app so user can keep backup of app's data manually in her PC via…

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Extract a previous version of file that is stored within a tar archive
I have a tar file which contain different versions of the same file, how can I extract one of the previous version of the file (not the last version) ?
here is how to create a test tar file:
create a test directory
tal@backup:~/tmp$ mkdir…

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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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RESTORE detected an error on page (0:0) in database as read from the backup set
I'm attempting to restore a SQL Server 2012 .BAK file to my local server. I've successfully restored this .BAK file before. However now, when I try, I get the following error:
RESTORE detected an error on page (0:0) in database 'databasename' as…

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using backup sets when performing transaction log backups
we have an install of sharepoint so we have many databases that we are currently backing up. Currently we are running full, diff and transaction log backups. Consequently we end up with a fair few transaction log backups per day. Currently a file…

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running routine backups from my application
i want to run a routine backup of my database from my java application. i'm actually considering a cron job within quartz to fire the backups at the specified time, but i don't know if thats the proper and most efficient way to do it. are there any…

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iOS, how to backup file (coredata and plist) to iCloud, and retrieve?
I have an App that has almost completed, except iCloud support. Now my user's data consists of coredata (called sqlite?) and some plist files. User's activity change these files all the time. I want my App could backup these files to the user's…

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IPhone Core Data Backup Restore Testing Questions
I'm in the learning stages of IOS development and have a few questions based on some behavior I recognized on my initial testing.
My questions for now will be related to a local ITunes backup.
For one thing, does an app that is not "certified" (an…

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MySQL- Is it possible to backup mySQL database within a period of time?
I am going to backup mySQL database in a period of time.
For example: Only backup the data from January to June.
Is it possible to do that? The reason I want to do this is I don't want to back up the database that is too old.
If it is possible…

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rsync "failed to set times on "XYZ": No such files or directory (2)
I have a Dlink NAS (dns-323) in RAID1 that I use to backup family photos, videos and some other data. I also manually rsync to a dedicated backup drive on a little Atom Linux box whenever we add a lot of new files to the NAS. I finally lost a…

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Converting Special Characters From Database to Normal Characters
I have a mysql database backup. And this backup collation is utf8-general-ci. This is a backup from vbulletin.
Here is a sentence from an article in database:
Ticaret Merkezi sizin ticaret yapmanýzý saðlayan müthiþ bir
platformdur. Bu platformda…

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Simple tool for backup VPS to Amazon Glacier
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I have VPS (with Debian) and some websites that hosted on it. Sites are not very large (~10-20 GB totally) but I need to make periodic backups of all user data.
Problem:
I'm looking for simple solutions that allows to backup all this stuff to…

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Point-in-time restores of databases and documents using Cloudant
How can I save changes in CouchDB / Cloudant in order to later do point-in-time restores of my databases, or even specific documents?

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How can i create in incremental backups of mysql databases
I have linux centos 6.4 server with mysql5.6
I have the cron job for making hourly mysql database backups like this
Its in python
os.popen("mysqldump -u %s --password=%s -h %s -e --opt --skip-lock-tables --skip-extended-insert -c %s | gzip -c >…

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