Backing up is the process of making copies (a backup) of data which may be used to restore the original after a data loss event.
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What's the best way to backup files via network on Linux and Solaris machines?
I wonder what the best way to backup files VIA network
I have Solaris machines with Oracle 10i with VERITAS cluster, machines are connected to EMC storage
/data/oracle directory is mounted on the ...
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Manually copying MBR from one drive to the other GPT drive and configuring GRUB results in booting failure
I run CentOS 6.4. I have SSD 300GB for system files and RAID10 8TB for storage + backup.
SSD system drive is partitioned as follows: fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 300.1 GB, 300069052416 bytes
255 ...
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Clear unused space with zeros (btrfs)
How to clear unused space with zeros ? (btrfs)
I'm looking for something smarter than
cat /dev/zero > /mnt/X/big_zero ; sync; rm /mnt/X/big_zero
Like FSArchiver is looking for "used space" and ...
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About Clonezilla and how store the backup
I've never used Clonezilla before.
When storing a backup, Clonezilla needs a free partition or free space? I mean, I have a disk for backups with only one partition. Do I have to create a partition ...
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How can I have automatic snapshots with s3ql?
How can I make automatic snapshots with s3ql? I want to have a similar behaviour as in duplicity: Pushing the backup to the server creates a new incremental snapshot with the current timestamp. Then I ...
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Got fatal error during xfer (Child exited prematurely)
I have a backup server which takes backup of other servers and in few days back the backup server started experiencing error and the not able to take back. I think the error log bellow could describe ...
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Backup parleys videos
I have Parleys Desktop installed on Fedora 13 and I want to format the disk. Can I make a backup of the videos I have installed so I can restore them after the format? What do I need to copy? I don't ...
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light weight disk based backup solution
Currently I am using Dirvish to backup a handful remote machines, both Linux and Windows to local disks. But Dirvish hasn't seen any updates for many years and it has a couple of small annoyances ...
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How to merge multiple WebDAV accounts for backup?
I use davfs, aufs, rsync:
sudo mount -t davfs -o uid=wd,gid=wd,dir_mode=777,rw https://wd1.wd.wd/ /mnt/webdav1
sudo mount -t davfs -o uid=wd,gid=wd,dir_mode=777,rw https://wd1.wd.wd/ /mnt/webdav2
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Run backup on HD plugged with systemd
When I plug a HD via USB, it should a) mount it b) run my backup
script.
What I currently have is backintime.service
[Unit]
Description="Runs backintime to backup."
[Service]
User=user
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restore duplicity backup from amazon s3 in debian
I have applied the script provided here to backup my stuff in debian etch and it works, I tried to reverse the SOURCE and DEST, but I can't do the restoration. What happened?
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Null byte files in duplicity backup
When duplicty encounters 0-byte-files it gives an IO-error:
Error [Errno 5] Input/output error ... getting delta for ...
The files are usually some wired stuff like
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how to create a script to backup MySQL databases on separate files?
I need to create a script so to automate the backup process for my database server. Today there are 19 databases on the server and to prevent some schema is created and not contemplated by the script, ...
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BackupPC can't finish backup
I'm trying to backup /etc/ directory on CentOS 5.2 using BackupPC.
It takes several hours and then aborted by signal ALRM.
There is a partial backup created with all data from /etc
But BackupPC thinks ...
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Use dd to backup disk image within an OpenVZ container
I want to use dd to backup the disk of an OpenVZ VPS in addition to traditional cold tar backups. Because I may need to migrate to a different VPS provider.
From end user point of view, OpenVZ ...
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How to backup KVM images? Is it possible to backup whole VM?
I need to backup all (9 VMs) my KVM VMs. I would like to backup them in the night for example once a week. For example VMware server and VMware server 2 used to have possibility to create live backups ...
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Can I get the backup option of cp and mv to work with directories?
--backup[=CONTROL]
make a backup of each existing destination file
The man page does say that it works on file. It doesn't seem to have any effect on directories. Is there anyway to make this ...
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Backupninja + Duplicity problem
I have recently installed on a Debian squeeze_64 server the Backupninja and Duplicity utilities. My goal is to backup /foo/bar/* to /desti/nation/ with full backup once a week and differentially once ...
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Backup Creation failure
When I try to make backup through the backup tool in Linux Mint 14 (Nadia), it shows the following message in the form of dialog box:
Backup failed.
Permission denied when trying to create ...
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How to backup a current php installation?
I'm using an old RHEL4 on a server where i need to update (from source) the php version. Moving from 5.2.5 to 5.4.14.
How can i backup the old php in order to restore it if there is any problem with ...
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Rsync seems to back up files that haven't been opened or changed
I have started using rsync to back some data on my mac to an external HD. It works really well, but I have noticed something odd. Every time I run the command, I get a list of files that haven't been ...
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Delete backup files according to rules
I manage my backup files with homemade scripts:
keep the 7 latest backups (full + incremental)
keep the 5 latest full end-of-week full backups
keep the 6 latest full end-of-month full backups
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Open alternative to crashplan friends
Is there a native linux alternative to "crashplan friends" http://support.crashplan.com/doku.php/getting_started/back_up_to_a_friend? The concept is that files are syncronized (backuped) to remote ...
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rdiff-backup changes permissions of source directory
I recently found rdiff-backup which seems to be very useful incremental alternative to rsync.
But there's an issue, while trying to use the rdiff-backup to make a mirror of a folder in other one, it ...
