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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Syncing / backup from S3 buckets to openstack swift containers
I need to backup/sync few hundred GB of files in S3 buckets to openstack swift containers.
I have thousands of files in several S3 buckets I want to copy/sync over openstack swift containers but I ...
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Best Way to Backup ClickHouse Data
We recently started using Yandex ClickHouse for our data backend, and I'm working on figuring out how best to backup our data. There seem to be two ways of doing this.
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Rsync takes 8+ hours to backup 15M+ files
I have ~700GB storage where I store ~15M files, hence average file size is ~50KB. To back it up, over night I run a simple rsync script with the following set of flags:
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Configured Azure Backup sends me a health check report every 15 minutes
I configured my SQL Server 2014 database to back up to an Azure storage account. I also enabled email notifications via
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Block level backups of Docker volumes
I'm new to Docker and trying to evaluate methods and processes for doing backups on a CentOS host and container. From reading numerous articles about Docker backups, I've come to the following ...
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Xen open source import and export vm
I am using free Xen 4.2.4-30.el6 on centos 6.5
create a vm using virt-install
I want to backup and restore virtual machines, but all tutorials talking about citrix and xe command
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tar incremental backup is backing everything up, every time when used on the Dropbox directory
I made an incremental backup about 10 months ago (on Jan 27, 2013), creating a .snar metadata file. Now, when I try to make an incremental backup using
tar --create --file=dropbox_incremental_1.tar --...
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Windows Restore fails with "The Volume ID could not be found" error, what to do?
On my server with 3 disks, one disk died and I'm trying to do a restore. The server looked like this:
[DISK1] | C:, main system drive <-- this one died
[DISK2] | D:, data disk
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DeltaCopy (Rsync for windows) giving an error on task run
I was suggested DeltaCopy to set up a nightly backup between two Windows 2008 R2 servers.
After setting up the server side (Amazon EC2 instance where files will be backed to) and setting up the ...
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Time Capsule giving high ping times for wireless
We've just set up an Apple Time Capsule for our network, and while things run fine in wired mode, with wireless mode ping time fluctuates wildly from 0.5 to 400ms:
Ping from a Macbook Pro to 10.0.111....
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RSync backup of Subversion repository with Rsyncrypto
This is a crosspost from stackoverflow because I find that I might get a much qualified audience here
The Situation
I have a pretty large Subversion repository that I am trying to backup efficiently....
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backupexec 12.5 not following symlinks on linux agent
Ok, we are at a loss here trying to backup a linux box to a backupexec server...
we got a backupexec 12.5 server and a "backupexec for windows servers linux agent" (sigh) running on one of our linux ...
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Change Docker Volume storage location
Since nearly the beginning, I have used mount binds for persistent data with docker, as the official way of backing up a docker volume is to give it to another container to save it in a tar...
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ZFS missing filesystem after interrupted backup
I have two filesystems in a pool, backup/nextcloud and backup/vm. Today, after a send/receive transfer was interrupted before it could finish (I was backing stuff up to these filesystems), I no longer ...
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How to properly backup / restore an overlayfs
I am currently working with a small Ubuntu-Server running on a raspberry pi to provide some services in my network. To extend the lifetime of my SD-card, I am trying to use an overlay-fs (see here for ...
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Duplicity keeps telling last full backup date: none
I am using duply wrapper script and made a full backup of my folder to another location, when I then try to run incr backup, Duplicity keeps telling me, that last full backup date is none.
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Network share Bare Metal Restore not seeing images
My 2012 Essentials R2 server is backed up to an ISCSI drive. Yesterday both disks in my RAID0 decided to die, so I am having to do a BMR from the backup. Steps I have taken:
New RAID0 logical drive ...
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Backup, Modify and Restore of Active Directory
Is there an easy way to do a backup, modify and restore of an active directory instance?
More specifically, I'm looking to do a backup, then change all references of DC=foo,DC=com to DC=foo,DC=dev so ...
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How to handle point in time restore without binlogs/How to split database
I thought about this 3 days already and asked in IRC but I wanna consult your expertise too.
Basically it is about a High Traffic Site that uses Drupal (don't get me started, I have no choice in this ...
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How to restore a guest Windows 2012 R2 VM installation/backup from VMWare to OpenStack?
I have a VMWare VM with Windows 2012 R2 installed in DC#1. The machine has terminal services set up with user accounts and permissions, lots of software installed and bunch of things configured that ...
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RANCID - timeout connecting PALOALTO in HA
When rancid try to connect via SSH to PALO (the active one) i get a time out message.
Connecting manually everything is ok.
I believe is something related to prompt containing parethesis.
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Veeam Hyper-V backup error: Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer VSS_WS_FAILED_AT_POST_SNAPSHOT
I have an error from a Veeam Hyper-V backup of a Virtual Machine in a Hyper-V host:
Unable to create snapshot (Microsoft CSV Shadow Copy Provider) (mode: Veeam application-aware processing). Details: ...
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Acronis Backup Advanced 11.5 for Citrix XenServer 6.5 installation issues
We are trying to deploy Acronis Backup Advanced for Citrix XenServer on a running pool of XenServer's.
The documentation of the product isn't quite clear about the procedure of the installation and ...
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Solution for file data backup, versioning and replication
We have a growing set of data files (.wav files, image files etc) which are data, i.e not part of the application code - uploaded and modified by users. The number of files is in the 1000s and the ...
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Postgres Restore Not Restoring Binary Data
This is a very urgent situation.
We have a postgres 9.4 database installed on a CentOs machine.
We are trying to take a backup from a Heroku Postgres database and restore it to the database on ...
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Synology NAS - rsync messing up versioning / deduplication
Is it true that Synology DSM 4.3's default rsync implementation is not able to handle "vast" amounts of data and could mess up versioning / deduplication? Could it be that any of the variables (see ...
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rsnapshot over NFS issue
I have a VPS configured with a webhost which I need to backup regularly. I have also purchased a 'backup disk' which is simply an NFS mount on another of their servers.
I have configured rsnapshot to ...
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Riak cluster backup 10 nodes to 6 nodes
I'm wondering how we can backup a cluster of 10 nodes and restore on a cluster of 6 nodes. No matter the technique used for the backup (fsync, riakmanager, ...).
Any help you can give would be ...
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Symantec BE: How is data flow of backups/restore to storage pools?
I am evaluating Symantec's BackupExec 2012 and was wondering how does the backup data flow from the server that as being backed up to the storage pool.
E.g. My BE server is in city A, the server that ...
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Rackspace cloud sites to local server backup
I use rackspace cloud sites and don't have accsess to SSH or RSYNC on their servers, but I do access to SSHFS.
I would like to be able to backup my cloud site to my local Ubuntu server, which has SSH,...
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Backup CentOS VM on Remote Server without snapshots
I have a VM with CentOS Server installed, which is for Email and Web Services, on a free esxi. The entire esxi has 2 TB usable and the CentOS server has 1.5 TB provisioned. Another CentOS VM that runs ...
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Data Protection Manager System Protection Backups Failing
I'm just starting to setup DPM 2010 in a test environment with a Domain Controller and a File Server. Everything seem to be working fairly well and I can get all of my backup jobs to succeed except ...
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Minimal backups of a Debian server
(This was originally asked on SuperUser --- they pointed me here as being more appropriate.)
I have a shiny new Debian server running in an Amazon EC2 instance. I've spent a while setting it up and ...
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mirror/backup of github repository with metadata
(How) would it be possible to make a full backup/mirror of a github repository, including
all branches and tags (with full history)
all (open) pull requests
all premissions/access restrictions
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Bareos (Bacula) FileSet not updated on change/reload/restart
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After building a Proof-of-Concept setup of Bareos, I can add and update various components like Clients, Devices, etc. But when modifying a FileSet, those changes are not reflected in the ...
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NTFS + Windows Server Backup and detecting bitrot/silent corruption
A question has come up regarding how we deal with bitrot, and if we need to do more.
We have a very simple setup; a single 4TB HDD (NTFS formatted) which is backed up to another larger HDD using ...
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Command line or PowerShell to manage Windows backup history
I'm backing up my Windows 10 machine using the Windows 7 classic backup feature so I can get a full system image. As part of it I'm getting a growing number of backup periods see image below. It keeps ...
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Duplicity "add-only" incremental backup
I have a large duplicity backup stored in a server that would be too slow and costly to fully restore, but I want to perform an incremental backup of a relatively small amount of data that was missing ...
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For AWS EC2, AMI Backup. when doing backup does the server itself stop or suspend?
I need to do an AMI backup from one of our EC2 server,
my concern is, if during AMI backup. do the server stop or suspend?
or the server does the AMI backup without any interruption at all?
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Does "wbengine" of Windows Server 2019 support incremental backups when targeting network shares?
This is a follow up to things I've written down in an answer to another question:
How does Windows Image Backup decide which files to backup?
Windows/NTFS manages change journals on each volume, ...
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ubuntu tftpd-hpa server times out
i'm trying to deploy a TFTP server on an Ubuntu machine to backup switche and router config, but i keep getting a timeout even thought i can see tftp traffic coming in.
i have looked around, many ...
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Is it important to backup and restore DFSR/Private folder for Windows DFS replication group?
Strangely, there doesn't appear to be a whole lot of direction on this and it doesn't seem that even the backup vendors can provide a straight answer.
In a Windows DFS replication group, each server ...
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Activate Tape Encryption on Windows Server
We use windows to make tape (LTO 8) backups with ltfs and now I want to use the hardware encryption. My problem is I can not find a way to activate it. For Linux I found "stenc" but is there something ...
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qnap backup without creating a network share
Idea behind my approach is that crypto virusses attack every network drive they can find, if we can keep the backup drive 'hidden' than the virus cannot get to it.
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Export back up copy of VM in Azure
I have set up a linux VM running Ubuntu 16 using resource manager and image from the marketplace. I use only SSE encryption since I do not need extra data drive, and OS manged disk uses SSE encryption ...
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(How) should I lock a Maildir mailbox managed by Dovecot before creating a backup via rsync?
I maintain an IMAP server running Dovecot which uses Maildir as the storage format for the user mailboxes. Every night, an rsync process runs to create a backup of the mailboxes. Recently, I noticed ...
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Azure Backup Change Source Location
I have a small client who uses Azure Backup and Replication to perform a cloud backup of profile data and a file share that was sitting on a failing NAS.
I mounted the new NAS via ISCSI to the file ...
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Why is rsnapshot with sync_first not working properly?
I had been using rsnapshot successfully for years to backup my Ubuntu notebook computers to my Ubuntu server. I recently decided to switch to using the sync_first option on the server and an anacron ...
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How to reduce the IO Wait Time during a rsync backup?
I have the following situation: There is a set of machines in the network (NAS and other "servers"). There is one additional machine for backup purposes. It collects the data from all 4 machines on a ...
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Rsync transfer-log on server site?
I have a backup script that copies contents of user directories on local workstations using rsync to another server. I need to use ssh for that because I don't want to run a rsyncd on the backup ...
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