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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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Asana project export via bash / curl / etc example

I'm trying to create a shell script for exporting all projects out of one Asana account. I got it to work temporary using a huge cookie description in a header, but this stops working when restarting or else of course. I am aiming for an automatic…
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How to zip a folders contents in C# even if a file is in use

I am learning C# and want to create a simple backup program using C# winforms. I have got the program to zip the folder and move it to another location no problems when the files arent in use. How can I do the same if the files are in use or at…
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Bash: Backup all users from /home/ and place it to username.tar.gz

I want backup all users from /home/ and create username.tar.gz for each user. How to get users list from /home/ for Bash?
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Cassandra: Does backup one node's data make sense?

When I copy a node's snapshot to its /var/lib/cassandra/data///, and run 'nodetool refresh', what will happen to this newly replaced sstables and original sstables, because the original sstables is still there, and some new writes still in commitlog…
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Backing up an OpenStack Swift Object Store

We're using OpenStack's Swift Object Store to store user data. I appreciate that our Cloud provider has their own backup/redundancy system in place, but we want to implement our own backup system that stores a copy of everything offsite – somewhere…
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Easy backup VPS server

I have VPS (with Ubuntu Server). Files and DBs are not very large (~10-20 GB totally) but I need to make periodic backups of all user data. I'm looking for simple solutions that allows to backup all this stuff to Amazon S3, and meet some…
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Backup SQL Server using ASP.NET

I have virtual hosting with SQL Server. I don't have physical access to SQL Server. I want to make backup and download it. How can I do it from asp.net page?
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Backup of Redmine files

Does anyone know how to take a backup of Redmine files. My files are located at /data/redmine/apps/redmine/htdocs/files. I need to get them in a folder of .tgz. Is it possible? If yes please tell me the command also to unzip it.
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Backing up locally modified and new source files

I'm wondering how other programmers are backing up changes that are not under source control yet, be it new files or modified ones. I'm mostly referring to medium size jobs - hardly worth the effort of making a private branch, but taking more than a…
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How do I use shutil to make a python file copy itself after doing a calculation?

So I have a python program that writes prime numbers into a csv file. I now want my python file to make a copy of itself after it runs everything, as a backup for when I tweak around with the original file. I've gotten away with not knowing this so…
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Firebird nbackup delta file

I want to do a Backup from a Firebird Database. In the documentation I read i should do it with: /opt/firebird/bin/nbackup -B 0 /home/server/daten/DB.fdb DB19082014.nbk This work. I have a file DB19082014.nbk. This I copy to my computer, and now I…
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Creating an archive with current date using 7z command line corrupts the name

I am trying to set up a 7zip batch file to backup data in an archive with the current date in the file name. So far I set up @ECHO OFF 7z a C:\Download\%DATE:~-4%-%DATE:~4,2%-%DATE:~7,2%_Backupfile.7z -mhe -mx0 -r -ssw -w…
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MySQL database - backup problem

Hi I need to backup MySQL database and then deploy it on another MySQL server. The problem is, I need it backup without data , just script which creates database, tables, procedures, users, resets autoincrements etc. ... I tried MySQL administrator…
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Amazon Redshift Automated Snapshot Trigger

What actually triggers an automatic incremental backup/snapshot for Amazon Redshift? Is it time-based? The site says it "periodically takes snapshots and tracks incremental changes to the cluster since the last snapshot" and I know whenever I modify…
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Backup of folder + database - Python

I feel like this is quite delicate, I have various folders whith projects I would like to backup into a zip/tar file, but would like to avoid backing up files such as pyc files and temporary files. I also have a Postgres db I need to backup. Any…
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