I'm setting up a backup for a friend's computer onto his USB drive. I was reading this article about the Windows 7 Backup and Restore feature.
Everything looks okay, but for the life of me, I can't figure out how to get to this screen:
I need to set up some excluded folders, since the backup media is a little smaller than the home folder. I…
I have a website which is very large and has a large user-base. I am trying to think of a 'best practice' way to create a back up or mirror website, so if something happens on domain.com, I can quickly point the site to backup.domain.com via 401 redirect. This would give me time to troubleshoot domain.com while everyone is viewing…
We have a small relatively idle windows server 2008 R2 installation that does basic filesharing and exchange for about 10 not very active users.
When running a windows server backup, the incremental data daily is about 20GB. This is not coming from users shared files, nor from changes in their mailbox sizes. The total size of…
I'm a system administrator and I use rsnapshot to backup some servers, duplicity for some others. Both work fine, each one with advantages and disadvantages. Despite that, I am at a loss on how to backup my own private files.
I'd use duplicity to automatically backup my files to a remote server; but the problem is that once in…
I get this message every time I bootup the machine
Schedule Backup delayed
Backup will begin when a network connection becomes available
The network is working fine and I can use the internet, also I can manually perform backups. I am a new user & using ubuntu 12.04 precise pangolin. Below is the link of screenshot of…
I'm quite new to Ubuntu and want to create a backup. I'm really not sure what files and folders to include so that if I restore my system it will be as it is now. I can't seem to find good details of this anywhere. Hopefully someone could help me with this. Is it possible to backup everything as it is now so in the event of…
I have a windows reseller account that I only really use for personal use. The host company doesn't currently offer a 1 click backup. I am looking for something to automate some kind of backup that does the following:
Backups all files
Backups all databases
I know other companies offering such a tool but I am not…
This morning we released a huge set of updates to Windows Azure. These new capabilities include: Backup Services: General Availability of Windows Azure Backup Services Hyper-V Recovery Manager: Public preview of Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager Virtual Machines: Delete Attached Disks,…
I knocked up a nice little query to display backup history for each database in a pivot table format.I wanted to display the most recent full, differential, and transaction log backup for each database. Here's the SQL :-WITH backupCTE AS (SELECT name, recovery_model_desc, d AS 'Last Full Backup', i AS 'Last…
I'm having difficulties to find a backup and synchronization solution with the following characteristics:
Cross-platform: Windows, Linux, Mac
Offsite backup (so Internet Backup)
Data deduplication
Transfer only new/modified bits of modified files
Secure: Data encrypted before leaving computer
Maintain…
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I'm trying to backup my Exchange 07 SP2 with the Windows Server Backup.
Since it's supposed to make a exchange-aware backup with the SP2, I created a scheduled full backup of the C: (where is located my First Storage Group).
The backup is successful, but when I go in Mailbox database's properties,…
What ways are there to copy a windows home server backup to an offsite location?
I'm talking specifically (and only) about the automated backup of my entire machine, and not the shared network folders.
I am 90% working away from home on my laptop which has a 640GB drive so the shared folders are…
What is the best way to backup windows SQL, Exchange or AD servers data to?
NAS, external USB , iSCSI or perhaps some other backup solution?
I will not however be considering cloud backup solutions due to bandwidth restrictions and cost.
Currently I find NAS devices to give the best results but…
Using my private key to do so, this command allows me to connect to /home/backupUser/backup just fine:
$ sudo sftp -oPort=7843 backupUser@192.168.x.x:backup
However when I run duplicity, I get the following error:
duplicity full --exclude ... /…
Backup (Deja Dup) failed to do an initial backup to my Amazon S3, and despite my best Googling efforts, I could not find a solution : (
Here's the error message:
BackendException: Error uploading…
I've seen the QAs about backup solutions, but I'm asking anyway. One because it's a personal situation I haven't solved yet, and two, because the answer can be useful for others.
My situation is…
I just built a new media/backup server using Ubuntu 12.04 64bit. I installed a hard drive to be used only for music, pictures, and videos and formatted it fat32 so my 1 and only Windows PC could…
I am writing an application that used to backup some specified file, therefore using the backup API calls i.e CreateFile BackupRead and WriteFile API's.
getting errors Access violation reading…
Since version 3.6 MEB supports backups to tape through the SBT interface.The officially supported tool for such backups to tape is Oracle Secure Backup (OSB).But there are a lot of other…
I was looking into doing backup with stsadm and I found that with catastrophic backup we can achieve differential and full backup but in catastrophic stsadm backup can we achive this at…
I'm using Windows Backup to back up my Win7 Pro laptop. I'd like to use it to back up my complete user profile, but I only see standard profile directories (e.g.…
I have BOINC Manager installed from the PPA, version 6.10.17, and I am about to upgrade my Ununtu install with a clean install. I would like to know how I can…
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and have multiple family members working on it with there own home folder.
I have an USB disk and want to use it to backup my home…