Questions tagged [remote-backup]
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Quick backup system for large projects
I've always backed up all my source codes into .zip files and put it in my usb drive and uploaded to my server somewhere else in the world.. however I only do this once every two weeks, because my project is a little big.
Right now my project…

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Need an encrypted online source code backup service
Please note this is not a question about online/hosted SVN services.
I am working on a home based, solo developer, project that now has commercial significance and it is time to think about remote source code backup. There is no need for file level…

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Postfix server mirroring (backup server)
I have to set up a remote mirror for a postfix server (where the content of both mail servers should be the same at any time).
The idea is that if the main server comes down at some point the mirror server will take its place, manage the new…

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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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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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Semaphore timeout error while creating a Sql backup in Azure blob storage since 3 days ago
I am using a daily scheduled job to have a backup of my on-premises sql server DB on Azure blob.
The command never changed and worked for many months but since 3 days ago started failing.
This is the text of the command:
DECLARE @MyFileName…

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Ubuntu remote backup software like Windows Home Server
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop on a headless machine to act as a server and a laptop dual-booting W7 and Ubuntu 10.04. I have a network setup so I can vnc, ssh from the laptop to the server.
My question is what is some good software to run on the…

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Query regarding remote database backup using pg_dump
I have requirement in my application that need to take database backup on remote server where postgres got installed. The following command used to take backup from remote server(10.35.2.185).
pg_dump -U postgres -h 10.35.2.185 TestDB >…

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ROBOCOPY puts the date 1/1/1980 on some copied files
I am having an intermittent issue with ROBOCOPY copying files with an incorrect date.
I am using ROBOCOPY to copy backup files from a local folder to a remote fileshare as a part of having a remote backup solution. The script is scheduled through…

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Remote FTP Backup -Tar archive+ encrypt+ split to a remote ftp
I have a huge directory(200+ gb) for backup. I want upload the tar file simultaneous to a remote ftp. (pipeline, stdout, stdin etc.)
I don't want write a data to local hdd. I have a ssd hdd
this code doesn't work.( yes i know the problem is split…

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Tar archive+encrypt+split to a remote ftp
I want upload the tar file simultaneous to a remote ftp. But this code doesn't work.
tar cvzf - /backup | openssl aes-256-cbc -salt -k "password" | split
-b 100m | curl -u user:password ftp.site.com/backup.tar -T -

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ssl encrypt large file using php for backup
I'm g-zipping and backing-up my database dump (using mysqldump ) to amazon S3 .
all works fine, but i also need to encrypt this big-compressed file for securing the very- sensitive data within the database.
please help, i'm really lost here .…

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XCOPY Batch file to backup on weekly bases & based on current day i.e monday,tuesday..etc
@ECHO OFF
C:\DOS\XSET DAY DAYOFWEEK
IF NOT "%DAY%" == "1" GOTO END
:BACKUP
C:\DOS\XSET CUR-DATE DATE YY-MM-DD
IF EXIST C:\BACKUP\%CUR-DATE%.ZIP GOTO FILE
C:\UTIL\PKZIP\PKZIP C:\BACKUP\%CUR-DATE%.ZIP C:\DATA\*.*
XCOPY C:\Users\Admin\Downloads*.ZIP…

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Efficient incremental backup with data chunks
I'm developing a backup tool and I can't figure out the most efficient way to do remote backup. I don't want to send the whole file every time there's a small change so I guess incremental backup is the solution. This is all well and good but now…

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How to backup a table or entire database by query as SQL format
I know that we can backup a table by query as CSV format like this:
SELECT * FROM db.table
INTO OUTFILE 'C:/backup'
CHARACTER SET UTF8
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ';'
ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n';
But this is creating the backup as CSV format.…

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