Questions tagged [backup]
Making copies of data so that the copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event, or for historical retention.
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Folders created by rsync on external HDD aren't visible, but can be 'cd'ed into
So I have a NAS where I put photos.
$ ls -l
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drwx------ 1 david david 0 jul 5 2020 '2001 09 Republica Domicana'
drwx------ 1 david david 0 out 5 2021 2003
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Backup server for several servers with yesterday's files
There are several servers under CentOS with PHP projects, and the task is to make a server (or servers) for them to store yesterday's versions of uncompressed files of all projects from all servers, ...
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Secondary internet backup for ISP blackout
We have a internet backup when 1st internet get shutdown(outage), but during ISP blackout the internet doesn't switch because its set up in a way to ping the default gateway but u can still ping it ...
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Backup Oracle Database 10g Enterprise edition release 10.2.0.5
It possible to backup Oracle database 10g Enterprise edition release 10.2.0.5 using Veeam? If not what about NetBackup? Any recommendations please?
Best Regards,
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rsync uncompressed to single compressed archive
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How can I rsync uncompressed (but highly compressible) data to a single compressed archive (.tar.gz, .zip, etc) without transferring all the data each time?
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How to backup a linux server to another storage while there is not enough storage space in the system
For example I have a ubuntu server 20.04 with 200gb disk and 150gb of that storage is full.
And I want to backup the data in this system to a remote system.
Is there a way to push all the data to S3 ...
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Virtual Tape Libraries for Microsoft Data Protection Manager - Replacement for Crystalink Firestreamer?
What VTLs do you all use to allow DPM to store off-site?
My current environment uses Microsoft DPM for all of its backups. DPM stores the backups locally just fine, but to get it to store digital ...
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How to configure a LSI MegaRAID controller to host non-RAID backup disks which allow hot swap
I'm running a server with a LSI MegaRAID controller that has 4 slots in the backplane for 4 SATA HDDs. Two of those slots are used for HDDs which are configured as RAID1 which is used as the "...
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Save the atjobs command time records for Backup
I wonder if there is a simple way to save the time records that has been applied by Atjobs, because I need to save the times already defined by Atjobs when making a system switch for example.
As far ...
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ZFS permission error 'cannot set property' when receiving snapshot from remote machine despite delegated permission
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I'm setting up ZFS autobackup on my home server for offsite backups. All commands printed below are run as non-root.
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A 'permission denied' error arises originating from the target ...
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DataProtector backup session stucks in "Inactive/Waiting" status
DataProtector v. 11.01
Backup session stucks in "Inactive/Waiting" status. There are no requests detected on DB-server. On the other hand, other sessions (for another DB`s on the same DB-...
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Trying to clone old linux machines using to img methods
I found this handy website to show how to clone drives to a img file:
https://www.maketecheasier.com/clone-entire-hard-drive-linux/
What neatish looking option was partimage, so I wanted to get that ...
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Managing Cloud-Based Large File Repository For A Team
I have been asked to handle some issues around a Dropbox team folder that is about 80gigs in data 75,000 files on 9,000 folders that often has sync conflict issues, or situations where files get moved ...
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Backup of organization's GitHub repository
Is there any guides/best practices/manuals describing how to organize periodical backup (and of course restore if needed) of entire organization's GitHub, preferably with metadata?
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Rsync when system resource utilization is low
I have a machine that suffers periods of resource contention (CPU or Memory or Disk or some combination) and I don't want Rsync to add to the problem when that occurs. Is it possible to setup Rsync to ...
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How do i create long term ( up to 7 year lifespan ) readonly backups now that bluray is disappearing?
What is an economical way to achieve read-only backups of files larger than a dvd, given that dell desktop pcs no longer support 5.25" bays that accomadate bluray writers ? My current system uses ...
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Recover files from Hyper-V VM checkpoints
this is my first time posting here, so apologize in advance if I am doing something wrong.
Here is our environment
Hyper V host server
windows server 2019 standard
HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8
2x Xeon E5-...
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How to back up mysql/mariadb database as mysql root when using unix socket for sql access in a bash script?
I am running Ubunutu Server 20.04. I have secured mariadb by using the unix socket for authentication, which means, I need to enter sudo mysql to be able to access mysql as root.
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mysql -...
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Windows Server 2022 Backup is always doing Full Backup and never doing Incremental Backup on data volume
As in title, my Windows Server 2022 is always doing full backup and not incremental backup.
I've checked this 10 year old question Windows Server Backup, drive is doing full backup instead of ...
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How to save systemd enable state
I would like to be able to duplicate the list of enabled systemd units from one machine to another.
A systemd unit is enabled or disabled based on the existence (or lack) of a sym-link. At this time, ...
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MariaDB - Emulate MySQL 5.7 version number?
I have been running MariaDB 5.5 on a linux server for several years.
Yesterday, I upgraded to MariaDB 10.11.3.
Now, my backup software has stopped backing up the databases, reporting an error that &...
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Mongodb data files corrupted when copied in
I’m sure there is a straightforward solution, I’m running a Mongodb service thusly:
[Unit]
Description=Mongo server for Open Quartermaster. Version ${version}, using MongoDB tagged to "4".
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Backup MSSQL database via disk (no SSMS no command line)
Our Windows server is having issues but before running disk repair, I want to take a backup. At the moment I'm using SystemRescure (the Linux utility) and I have successfully saved files.
The only ...
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Online monitoring / dashboard service for multiple metrics
I know there are services like Uptimerobot and Pingdom that monitor web service uptime.
I'd like to easily monitor web availability as well as backup status, eg if a backup ran/ completed properly. I'...
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Optimal automated neo4j backup startegy
I'm trying to figure out the most optimal way to do automated daily backups of my > 2TBs neo4j database. I need to get a db copy and upload it to S3.
I have a neo4j cluster with 1 primary db and 2 ...
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Necessity to backup Cassandra system keyspaces
I was wondering about the necessity to backup (in order to restore of course) the system keyspaces of Cassandra.
My backup/restore procedure is the following:
backup: snapshots (nodetool) + dump of ...
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Dovecot doveadm backup occassionally failing with error 65 - how to handle
I'm trying to set up backups of dovecot emails between 2 servers. The command doing the heavy lifting is:
doveadm -D backup -R -u [email protected] ssh MAINSERVER.IP doveadm dsync-server -u ...
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Apache Ignite - Automatic Cluster Snapshot Create / Restore Procedure
When trying the Apache Ignite cluster snapshot procedure (snapshot create, restore), the restore operation is not successful.
Before the restore procedure, we have destroyed the cache which we want to ...
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Incremental backup of an entire FTP server with Linux [closed]
I'm looking for a simple way to schedule full + incremental backup of a remote FTP server (that also supports SFTP, but without SSH access) from My NAS that is based on Linux, WITH full SSH access. I'...
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Hardening the security of a backup shell script of a web-server with mysql database
In the case of a simple web-server with a MySQL database, the script has to dump the database, copy the web-server files and tar everything together. Then a NAS server Rsync the tar file via a "...
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mysql NDB backup fail
I'm trying to abort a backup on a NDB cluster like this:
ndb_mgm> abort backup 2304081512
Abort of backup 2304081512 ordered
But there is no change, the backup seems to be stalled :
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Backup drive on Linux system keeps getting corrupt. How to troubleshoot?
My webserver (Debian BullsEye) has an internal 2TB harddrive which sole purpose is to hold a backup of the server's main HD. Every day a cronjob is started that creates a backup using rsync. But every ...
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How to compress a directory, using tar, and then delete the directory it compressed?
On my server there is an application directory that I need to make a full copy of it but the copy takes up a lot of space, I need to compress it and then remove it.
I already use the command
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Unable to restore an MSSql Database from an Azure Storage backup
We have a simple sql script to restore an MSSql DB from an Azure storage blob. We backup our PROD DB to Azure Storage.
Trying to run this script (which we swear used to work a while ago).. now errors:
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Borg asking for key file when upgrading unencrypted repository
Evening,
So i have an unencrypted borg backup repository which im trying to upgrade. The problem is, when running the borg backup command borg replies with "no key file found for repository"....
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Does creating a machine Image stops the VM Instance in google cloud?
I have to make an image of a VM instance on Google Cloud, if I use the Create Machine Image option will this shut down the VM instance while it is creating, I'm reading the documentation on it but it ...
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How to properly make a backup of a virtual machine using QEMU only
This questions asks how one can make a backup of a live virtual machine.
The accepted answer says it is possible with QEMU/libvirt.
My question (since the answer doesn't explain it) is how to do a ...
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Backup software that can split files to 3 separate disks [closed]
I have 3To of storage on a RAID5 configuration, and I want to setup a regular backup of these 3To of data on external disks that I would bring to a separate physical location (my office). I have 3 ...
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Tar backup command for exclude backup files & cache & include only httpdocs subdirectories
I am looking for a tar command that meets the following requirements:
I want to exclude all files ending with: backwpup & .zip (in between and before can be any e.g. uploads/123backwpup-123.zip)
I ...
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Troubles with Exporting Dovecot Post Boxes
My postfix/dovecot mailserver runs well, but I want to migrate to another server and my problem: I'm not able to export post boxes from my dovecot:
My command (I replaced the email address):
dsync -f -...
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Linux immutable backup repository deployment architecture best practice?
What are the Linux distributions that are compatible with the Immutable repository?
Can you give me some advice on the best hardware or virtual machine configurations to deploy a large backup ...
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Automysqlbackup does not use the configured password
I have automysqlbackup installed on debian. I added USERNAME and PASSWORD to /etc/default/automysqlbackup, but when automysqlbackup runs, I get the output:
/etc/cron.daily/automysqlbackup:
ERROR 1045 (...
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backup /home over sftp - root
My current task is to set up a (remote) backup (using rsync/rsnapshot) over sftp of /home (linux). Obviously some files are read only for the owner (ie -r-------; and should stay that way) so i guess ...
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Best way to backup a WordPress site on EC2 instance
My WordPress site is sitting on a single EC2 instance. My site has 60GB worth of files and a 800MB database size. My site is running out of space just by running the Duplicator plugin to back it up. ...
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Data reconciliation for applications
I need to create a plan for a catastrophic data loss scenario where I need to recover some services (multiple apps each) from bare metal using data backups.
The process (i believe) requires the ...
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cron / crontab : auto delete oldest backup files when new files get backed up, only if disk space is near capacity
I am using crontab (on Ubuntu Server 20.04) to automatically create daily backups of a text file and storing them on an external hard drive. I am using the following crontab to create my backups:
@...
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IIS backup is backing up old history not new live data from IIS (All sites and Pools not new)
Windows 2016 Core Servers / IIS10
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The backup seems to be backing up OLD data.
It seems that it is picking up on history instead of backing up the LIVE data.
This will explain WHY it is ...
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Does daily rsync OS backup push SSD drives to its limits?
Since past year I'm using Rsnapshot (which uses rsync) to do my daily laptop Linux Ubuntu OS backup to a local NAS.
Some months ago I started having serious problems with the OS stability. It seems ...
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How to backup two folders with duplicity?
I want to backup a few folders with duplicity and exclude the rest using a --include-globbing-filelist. Let's say to make it simple I want to backup /first and /second but not /third or any other (new)...
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rsync: updated files to new folder
rsync allows to copy/synchronize folders without transferring files that already have been synchronized before and that did not change since last run. For that, you typically have to specify the ...
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