(Surprised I didn't already find an answer here to this!)
I've got a computer on which I'd like to back up the iTunes library – music, movies, apps, everything. We're talking multiple gigabytes.
Unfortunately, it seems that iTunes' own built-in "Back Up to Disc" feature (the only backup feature I can find in iTunes) only functions with a CD or…
Hi all,
I would like to be able to backup ALL my computers data on a Linux server. For now, I have a home server, but soon I will be travelling, without home (so no home server).
I was thinking of renting a dedicated linux webserver, but this is expensive, and I don't need a fast machine "web-oriented" with mysql server and all, I just need a…
Let me explain my backup strategy and the problem I am facing.
My current backup strategy:
Open encrypted container and execute Carbon Copy Cleaner on it at least once a week.
Rotate backup disks.
Problem:
I have an Truecrypt partition on my 1st external hard disk. I recently found out that some files on this encrypted partition cannot be…
I have two tightly coupled services that can run on completely different nodes (e.g. ServiceA and ServiceB). If I start up another replicated copy of both these services for backup purposes (ServiceA-2 and ServiceB-2), what would be the best way of setting up a fault tolerant distributed system such that on a fault in any of the tightly coupled…
Is there a way to perform the following under Linux:
There are two web servers, main and backup
There are two database servers (postgres), main and backup
Web Servers are in sync with each other, ie. configuration/content/applications are the same
Backup database is continuously synced up with main database.
If either of main servers goes…
We have an LTO-3 Tape drive in a Dell media library that we use for our tape backups. The article about LTO on Wikipedia states that:
LTO uses an automatic verify-after-write technology to immediately check the data as it is being written, but some backup systems explicitly perform a completely separate tape reading operation to verify…
I have somehow managed to purchase a VPS after collecting money for sometime, now problem is i cant find a way to backup the server. My previous approach was:
Got a webdav account from mydisk.se, mounted it on the vps, used duplicity and created encrypted backups.
Problem is it was only 2G, and its running out of space, at my own place i…
I have a Dropbox folder which is shared by couple of users. I would like to make a backup of this folder that will occur every week and store this backup on another hard drive.
I can simply copy the entire folder each time and this will be the backup, but I would like to copy only the files that have been changed or created during that…
I want to export and migrate a Certificate Authority CA role from a Windows 2003 machine to a new copy of Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine. I was told that I cannot have 2 CA roles on the same network at the same time. Therefore, I must first export the certificates on the older machine, delete the CA role, then add the CA role on the new…
I have been starting up my iMac (Mavericks) with a flash drive that boots up Mountain Lion so that I can use an app that is incompatible with Mavericks. Question: I have a single external backup drive always connected to my Mac. I am thinking of partitioning that drive and giving each partition a unique name, e.g., Backup 1 and Backup 2.…
I'm running windows 7 with 2gb memory and 2.50 Ghz dual core cpu. here are my question regarding backing up an entire drive. I plan to use Macrium Reflect because its free. And I can't afford to buy one.
If I backup a hard drive would I only be able to backup the partition where the operating system is?
If I have installed applications…
I have a set of backups of mostly photos. The directory looks sort of like this:
backup/Day1/photos/1.jpg
.../2.jpg
backup/Day2/photos/2.jpg
.../3.jpg
.../4.jpg
backup/DayN/photos/2.jpg
.../3.jpg
.../9.jpg
Files with same name are identical. There are many…
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how do you put a process bar and button onto this code
i have class and want to add a gui on to the code
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.IO;
using…
I'm trying to set up a backup system from an Ubuntu server to a Synology NAS (DS413j) using rsync and sftp.
I have created a user for this that we can call ubuntu-backup.
I have a directory in ubuntu-backup home directory called www where the backup will be saved.
I have enabled Network Backup in DSM
The user ubuntu-backup…
With default settings, when 'putting' the file, it is clobbered without complaint or warning. When 'getting' lftp complains:
get: super.sh: file already exists and xfer:clobber is unset
I change my /etc/lftp.conf and append:
set xfer:make-backup yes
set xfer:clobber yes
When putting and getting, the files get…
I just wrote this script for backing up everything into a tar.gz file. Does it look okay? How can I get the tar file to transfer itself over to another server after executing? FTP from itself? I'm going to put this script into a weekly cron.
#!/bin/bash
rm ~/backup.tar.gz #removes old backup
BACKUP_DIRS=$HOME…
Hi,
Is it possible to make a backup of my Windows Server from the built-in Microsoft tool, but as long as my Hyper-V backups are stored safely and not backed up anywhere, I can still restore my Windows Server from the native backup and use the Hyper-v machines?
So if I lost my C:\ and my VMs are stored…
I'm using Powershell to check last backup times across all our sqlserver databases. This seems to work really well, but I've got a question
If I run this (a cut-down version of the actual script):
dir SQLSERVER:\SQL\Server1\default\databases | select parent, name,
lastbackupdate
I get:
Parent …
The Windows (Vista) documentation and available online info is comprehensively vague. If I have a moderately brain dead system and want to restore it, and I have a "Backup and Restore Center" backup whose "delta" is not quite a week old (but with a "full backup" behind it), what steps do I go through to…
When running a command like the following:
"RESTORE FILELISTONLY FROM DISK='\\\\server\\folder\\DummyDB.bak'"
I'm getting this error:
Backup destination "\\server" supports a FILESTREAM filegroup. This filegroup cannot be used as a backup destination. Rerun the BACKUP statement with a valid backup…
I've got two FreeBSD machines set up; one serves video data and the other is the backup for the first. At this point I've got around 4TB of data. I add files to the video server a few at a time, and was planning to use rsync over ssh to keep the backup machine up to date.
I did the initial, large…
I am doing log shipping between two Amazon EC2 instances running Windows Server 2008 R2 with SQL Server 2008 R2 standard edition.
Both the instances are in the same domain and I can access the shared folders between the instances. The SQL server service account, agent service account are all…
Backup Exec 2010 has just dropped, and I'm about to implement a new BEWS infrastructure, complete with CALs and new central servers.
When I specced this up last year, I ignored 2010 and focused on Backup Exec 12.5, since it's a mature product. In previous experience, major released of BE had…
I think I'm having difficulty fully understanding subvolumes and snapshots.
The /home partition is btrfs. I want to create a "backup" snapshot of /home/user (for example) but user has existed for years (previously ext4 btrfs-convert). I believe you can only make a snapshot of a subvolume. I…