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Our nightly full (and periodic differential) backups are becoming quite large, due mostly to the amount of indexes on our tables; roughly half the backup size is comprised of indexes.
We're using the Simple recovery model for our backups.
Is there any...
Started by Jarrod Dixon on
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Then you stagger your backups....
Restore gets even more interesting, because.
There are a lots of structures that would have to ba fixed up to account for the holes in the backup structures would drastically slow down backup.
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I don't see any built in mechanism for scheduling nightly backups in SQL Server 2005. What tools are available to perform this task and how reliable are they?
Started by cowgod on
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Any....
You just need to change an account wich used for sure) - e.g.
Network backup is possible with SQL Server Agent...
We link to some good backup scripts off that video.
That'll give you more flexibility and power.
backups.
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This is driving me a little crazy as previously it ran a full and happy backup.
Cron:
/usr/bin/rdiff-backup --exclude /var/yp --exclude /var/tux --exclude /var/tmp --exclude /var/www/usage --exclude /var/www/quarantine --exclude /var/www/coursebup --exclude...
Started by eGJD on
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Just run
df -h
couple of times while backup is running (both on client and server) and see on which device you run out.
In temporary folder (especially during recovery, but maybe also during backups).
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Hi guys and gals!
I am looking for a smart way to take care of scheduling backups on a remote Mysql Unix/Linux server from my own personal Windows XP computer.
Is there any (free if possible, preferable of course) software that i can schedule that logs...
Started by Industrial on
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by 4 people.
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backup directly onto FTP server and sending of backups by email platform independent - only webserverHave you looked at pmbp ?
It's web-based (PHP) and among the other features, it lists:
backup (no compression, gzip or zip) scheduled....
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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...
Started by Shoaibi on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
You'll need only FTP ....
Alternative than duplicity: http://www.sysadmin.md/secure-backup-on-remote-server-using-zyxbackup-and-gpg.html
The solution offers you to customize that folders to backup and could be used for servers and desktops.
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What is a good, secure, method to do backups, for programmers who do research & development at home and cannot afford to lose any work?
Conditions:
The backups must ALWAYS be within reasonably easy reach.
Internet connection cannot be guaranteed to be...
Started by slashmais on
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by 22 people.
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Personally I prefer a scripted backup (to local hard-drives, which you implicitly get....
Through a few backup HDDs to you have a few generations to go back to, or if one of the backups goes as good as true incremental backups.
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What techniques do you recommend for securing a online backups (to a third party service like Mozy) a backup that has the advantages of online backup but cannot be tampered with just by compromising the main system? The potential advantage of tapes is...
Started by Yishai on
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The big caveat to this is that if backups aren't read-only as chaos suggests, or the backup the the backups....
To the third party service, they're read-only for the account that the main host uses to access the backup a restore.
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I'm currently using a Virtual Server running Ubuntu Linux. The company hosting it does not do any kind of backups, but they offer me the oppertunity to do backups via FTP. Therefor, I get access to a FTP share of equal size to my primary server storage...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Backups are too important: http://www.howtoforge.com/ftp....
Set up a real backup system (rdiff-backup over SSH isn't a bad choice for this kind of setup) and stay the hell away from your ISP's dain-bramaged BS.
And steal your stuff.
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How do I do backups in MySQL?
I'm hoping there'll be something better than just running mysqldump every "x" hours.
Is there anything like SQL Server has, where you can take a full backup each day, and then incrementals every hour, so if your DB dies you...
Started by Daniel Magliola on
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It not only schedules backups....
Now i am beginning to sound like a marketeer.
backups are much less than 20MB, so can be sent to the GMail account without problem (the MySQL dumpsYou might want to look at incremental backups .
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Is there any method to backup Exchange 2007 bases with Symantec/Veritas Backup Exec 12.5 using GRT (Granular Recovery Technology, as i remember) in our situation, described below.
What we have: 1) 2 different networks, 2 domains without trusts. Each domain...
Started by Serg K. on
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by 3 people.
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In my case the problem was solved by recreation of the account for backup agent, copying it is not necessary on backup-server, as well as has told DLux, and against to statements on a Symantec's support from account ....
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