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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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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How to transfer all emails for a mail account hosted from a server to another server by using IMAP?
IMAP allows you to access the folder heirarchy and all emails on a given account.
There was a serverfault (pun intended) with our primary email servers and so we have to shift all email accounts to ...
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Impossible to delete AWS backup vault, backup plans?
I swear, I've read all the docs I can find, and have tried everything including the AWS policy generator UI and manually editing policy JSON, but no matter what I try, when I try to delete any of ...
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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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How can I see the expire date of a file in Tivoli Storage Manager?
If I understand correctly, when I do an incremental backup and a file has been removed from the client, the server marks it as inactive which makes it eligible for purging when the expire time has ...
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Best way to prevent the root system filling up when a mount fails?
We have an internal web server (virtualized, hosting ReviewBoard, but not super relevant) and we have a relatively consistent failure mode with failed NFS mounts causing / to fill up. Distro is Ubuntu ...
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Shell command to filter out non-existing files in a pipe
I'm looking for a nice way to generate a backup tar.gz of what is going to be overridden by the extraction of another tar.gz.
tar -ztf patch.tar.gz | grep -v "/$" | tar -T- -zcvf backup.tar.gz
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Troubleshooting 'Could Not Start' scheduled task error:
I'm trying to run snapshot on my server to back up the drive onto a local NAS server. I'm currently using this on a Win2k, Win2k3, and Win2k8 servers. Both the Win2k and Win2k8 servers are correctly ...
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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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Which tar file format should I use?
tar can create the archive in different formats. GNU tar, ustar, pax, v7.
What would be the best for long time archiving?
Is there significant differencies in these formats?
I would use the best ...
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VSS writer NTDS State 11 failed and other writers state 5
We use Altaro VMBackup V7.0.20.3 to back up some VMs hosted on a single Hyper-V Host running Windows Server 2012 R2. One of the VMs running Windows Server 2008 gets the following error after the ...
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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?
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View Current State of Keepalived
Is there a way to view the current state (Master/Backup) using a command line inside a server instance?
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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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Butterfly Backup server
I have a Butterfly Backup server. I implemented a solution as described in this article: dev.to.
In my sever list, I have two NAS, used as user file repositories; the files change and are changed ...
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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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How to test the integrity of an Exchange database?
I would like to verify the integrity of my Exchange 2010 database backups and could use some guidance.
We have an Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 server that we backup but I don't know if the ...
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Very Huge Sized Cache of Duplicity
I am currently using a duplicity script to backup my 110G/2T CentOS server to a 2T sftp server.
Since 4 days passed, duplicity backed up just 90G. This is not a problem. The main problem is; I have ...
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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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Error during Veeam SQL log backup: "Failed to flush file buffers"
My company uses Veeam Backup & Replication to make backups of our VMWare-hosted virtual machines. We use Veeam's SQL log backup feature for our MS SQL 2008 R2 server. Our backup repository resides ...
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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.
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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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How to backup GPG?
What are the critical files I need to backup from GPG? I guess my private key would qualify of course, but what else?
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Remove sata drive while running?
I have a hyperv 2012 r2 server, and the case has two bays where you can open a drawer and slide in a bare SATA drive. Theres a data and power connector at the back of the bay with cables to connect ...
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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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how to backup partition layout?
How I can backup(and restore) partition layout of the Disk along with file system types,UUIDs,labels,LVM partitions(Linux LVM) etc, plus with MBRs and VBRs etc but without actual files
I want to ...
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Prevent the possiblity of writing data to an unmounted mount point directory [duplicate]
I have an Ubuntu server where I'm automounting an external hard drive each boot.
To do this, I've created an empty folder on the root partition, and the drive gets mounted "inside" this folder.
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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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Server Backup reports incomplete backup [0x80070020] due to item in System Volume Information Folder
My Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials server has started throwing the same error each time during daily backups, each backup has this error in the failed items backup log:
Error in backup of E:\...
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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
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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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Pruning of backup files as they get older
I'm looking for a tool (for Linux) that will prune my backup files, not like the standard logrotate that completely deletes them after defined number of rotations, but where the files are basically ...
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How to backup virtual machines on a standalone ESXi host?
Standalone ESXi (4.1) host without any vCenter Server.
How to backup virtual machines as quickly and storage-friendly as possible?
I know I can access the ESXi console and use the standard Unix cp ...
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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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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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What happens if the only DC fails?
I recently started an internship in System Administration and I am currently tasked with researching and potentially setting up an on Premise Active Directory in our company.
Lets say, I am running ...
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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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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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Puzzling issue with Hyper-V backup (volume shadow copy) integration and DPM 2019
I have a Microsoft DPM 2019 server that's been backing up various Windows Hyper-V VMs without issue until recently. No apparent changes have been made, but now a particular VM is failing its backup ...
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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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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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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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