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.
Questions tagged [backup]
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How to get deleted files back with git pull?
I had up to date repository. Then I had deleted several files and this was mistake. I would like to get fresh repository back. I do
$ git pull origin master
And expect to get everything from server, but getting message that everything is up to…
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How do I back up a remote SVN repository
I am currently moving my SVN server from my home server to my remote server so I can access it more easily from other locations.
My remote server is not backed up so I want to regularly back it up to my home server.
Remote server is Windows 2003…
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Opening a SQL Server .bak file (Not restoring!)
I have been reading a LOT of google posts and StackOverflow questions about how to restore a database in SQL Server from a .bak file.
But none of them states how to just READ the tables in the database-backup.
(None that I could find anyway?)
I just…
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s3cmd failed too many times
I used to be a happy s3cmd user. However recently when I try to transfer a large zip file (~7Gig) to Amazon S3, I am getting this error:
$> s3cmd put thefile.tgz s3://thebucket/thefile.tgz
....
20480 of 7563176329 0% in 1s 14.97 kB/s …
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How to skip row when importing bad MySQL dump
Given bad mysqldump that causes error on import:
namtar backups # mysql -p < 2010-12-01.sql
Enter password:
ERROR 1062 (23000) at line 8020: Duplicate entry 'l�he?' for key 'wrd_txt'
Is there an easy way to tell import to just skip given row and…
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Speeding up mysql dumps and imports
Are there any documented techniques for speeding up mySQL dumps and imports?
This would include my.cnf settings, using ramdisks, etc.
Looking only for documented techniques, preferably with benchmarks showing potential speed-up.
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Restore database backup over the network
How do you restore a database backup using SQL Server 2005 over the network? I recall doing this before but there was something odd about the way you had to do it.
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How should I backup & restore docker named volumes
I'm a little bit confused with the functionnality of named volumes in a docker compose file specifically when it comes to backup/restore my app.
I'm actually testing this dockercompose file :
version: '2'
services:
django:
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Override file while backup database
I want to back up a database using this code
sqlcmd -S servername -Q "BACKUP DATABASE [DBName] TO DISK = 'C:\backup.bak'"
It works. But if the backup file already exists, the data gets appended to the file instead of replacing the file. Every time…
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How to backup Sql Database Programmatically in C#
I want to write a code to backup my Sql Server 2008 Database using C# in .Net 4 FrameWork. Can anyone help in this.
user1287692
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How to remove all files ending with ~ made by Emacs
Whenever I edit files on emacs, it seems a temporary file is created with the same name with ~ appended to it. Does anyone know an quick/easy way to delete all of these files in the working directory?
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How to take a backup for the 'connection details' in sqldeveloper?
What is the process to take a backup of all the connection-details (viz. host,port,sid,etc.) in 'oracle sqldeveloper' software.
How can we import these connection details to some other machine ?
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What is the best way to backup Azure Blob Storage contents
I know that the Azure Storage entities (blobs, tables and queues) have a built-in resiliency, meaning that they are replicated to 3 different servers in the same datacenter. On top of that they may also be replicated to a different datacenter…
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rsync prints "skipping non-regular file" for what appears to be a regular directory
I back up my files using rsync. Right after a sync, I ran it expecting to see nothing, but instead it looked like it was skipping directories. I've (obviously) changed names, but I believe I've still captured all the information I could. What's…
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Backup of PostgreSQL database design - without data
I have tried to find a way to backup my database design without including the data stored in the database. Actually, one might say that I want to have a file that holds all "CREATE Scripts" in the database. Ideally, this file could be used to…
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