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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Calling FSCTL_CREATE_OR_GET_OBJECT_ID from Python
I'm trying to get NTFS object IDs to use in a Python backup program. I'm in way over my head, but managed to create a function that returns... something.
import sys
import win32file
import winioctlcon
def object_id(filename):
"""
NTFS…
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svnadmin hotcopy hangs indefinitely
I'm implementing a backup strategy for a Subversion repository.
I chose incremental backup on local NAS. I mounted the NAS over Samba and tried to hotcopy my test repository (that has few commits and weighs 320KB).
svnadmin hotcopy --incremental…
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S3 Incremental Backups
I am currently using S3 to store large quantities of account level data such as images, text files and other forms of durable content that users upload in my application. I am looking to take an incremental snapshot of this data (once per week) and…
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How do I backup the data in SQL Server 2008 on a third party host?
I have a SQL Server 2008 database that is hosted by a third party host (heart internet).
How would I go about backing this up?
I used SQL Server Management Studio Express 2008 to create the tables within the database, but the backup options within…
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Reverse changes from transaction log in SQL Server 2008 R2?
We have a SQL Server 2008 R2 database that backs up transaction logs every now and then. Today there was a big error in the database caused at around 12am... I have transaction logs up to 8am and then 12am - 16pm - etc.
My question is: can I sort…
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PostgreSQL backup software for Windows
I would like to request if there is any software for Windows which can schedule PostgreSQL backup at a certain time.
We are maintaining multiple servers on different locations, so I want to know if there is any easy way around scheduling PostgreSQL…
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How can I migrate my user-generated data to the computer?
I have a query regarding BackUp of third party application data on PC.
I am developing an application which can store photos, text, recordings.
The user can add number of photos or recordings.
So at the runtime, size of application storage will go…
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TeamCity backup via REST API authentication failing
I have a PowerShell script which calls TeamCity's REST API to make a backup.
This script worked was working on v7.1 but when I upgraded to 8.0.5 the script stopped working.
Script:
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
function Execute-HTTPPostCommand()
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Exclude mounted folders from tar archive
we want to backup our server and this seems to be pretty simple thing to do except one. Currently we use something like this:
tar cvpjf backup.tar.bz2 --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/backup.tar.bz2 --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/sys…
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SQL Server Backup Files
Is the structure of SQL Server database backup BAK file similar to NTBackup BKF file? Is there any reference which can be redirected to understand the difference between NTNAckup and SQL Server Backup (*.bak) files?
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SharePoint Backup / Restore Solutions
I am using SharePoint to build a website and I am looking into the backup / restore solution.
The website is hosted on a set of virtual machines (one VM for the web front-end, one VM for SQL Server).
I have a backup of these VMs in a base state…
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Backup configuration files
I need to be able to store configuration files on machines that gets disconnected by plugging off the electricity ;), I'm using basic WinApi to store configuration data (WriteFile), this works unless the machine is plugged off ;), sometimes file…
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Crash while backup and restore of app data from cloud
I go through the following link http://developer.android.com/training/cloudsync/backupapi.html to sync app data to Google server. I do all the steps mention in the doc. But every time i try to restore data it crash. The code i had written is shown…
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How to backup App's data on Android over the cloud?
Background
I wish to store and restore some settings and other values for an app i'm working on.
The problem
As it turns out, Android already has a nice feature called "BackupAgent".
However, it also seems it's not supported on all devices:
Data…
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bzr - create tgz file containing full repository
I'm trying to backup my shared bzr repository. I have looked at bzr export hotcopy.tgz but it seems only to take a snapshot of the latest revision.
Is there a command for doing backups, or do I have to
full checkout into a tmp dir
compress the tmp…
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