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Hi all, i am looking for a cron script which can do some backups. im mostly a web developer so am kind of newbish with bash/cron stuff.
i want cron will copy all the files or directories in a "filelist.txt" into a mounted network storage drive once per...
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And /media/backup is the mount point of the backup media (already mounted) and /media/backup/backups DIRLIST=/etc/backupdirlist.txt DAYOFWEEK=`date +%a` FILELISTDEST=/media/backup/backups/$DAYOFWEEK.filelist ....
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What is the best way to do Subversion backups (on a Debian based server).
Is it to use svnadmin?
svnadmin dump /path/to/reponame > reponame.dump
Or maybe just to tar the dir where the repositories are?
tar -cvzf svn.backup.tar.gz /var/subversion...
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backups using svnadmin dump Backup your entire repository using svnadmin hotcopy Simply making a copy to a backup file echo "svnbak: Dumping subversion repository: ${repo}" SVN_HOTBACKUP_NUM_BACKUPS=10 into the old backup....
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If you configure your multi-disk Windows Home Server (WHS) as maximum storage capacity will it duplicate your network's backups across multiple disks?
Say I have 4 disks on my WHS and one of the WHS disks goes bad. Is there any chance that I will lose...
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This will ensure that backupsThe Windows Home....
If you lose a backup, you take another on the actual backups and also backup the "backup tracking database".
Though, you really shouldn't need redundancy in your backups.
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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...
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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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How does version control differ from plain backups?
Let's forget about the feature decoration, and concentrate on the soul of version control. Is there a clear line that backups must cross before they can be called a VCS? Or are they, at heart, the same...
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Version control typically version of the file would "win?" Backup never "merges" two different backups into one "true" backup backups....
Here's a few
A backup system keeps backups for a given range of time back.
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At my work, backups have a surprisingly low priority. The backup strategy was implemented a while ago, and since then it's just assumed the backups are fine. If you ask the sysadmins, they'll say everything is backed up.
But then, when you ask for a SPECIFIC...
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There should be documented procedures for all backup and restore operations, including all systems and their backup....
Is the current backup strategy backed and this is hard evidence.
You always have to get these things fixed from the top .
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We're a small shop operating over a dozen vmware instances across 3 host machines. As we've added more VMs to our deployment for our clients, the piecemeal way we've done backups of our vm's has been showing its cracks. This especially became clear as...
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(You still should test, test, test your backups even if you're using commerical offerings.)
I've done my share of glue-....
My take on "roll it yourself" backup is something like this: Scripting is great, but backup is also your data.
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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...
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Backups are too important: http://www.howtoforge.....
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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Let me explain what do I regularly do while developing an iPhone project.
I create new folders on each day & as follows
* November 2009 o 01-DEC-2009 + MyProject o 02-DEC-2009 + MyProject * December 2009
Above, you can see, I make back up of my project...
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I wrote a bitTime Machine will make daily ....
Rdiff-backup would fit cron your backups, or push a "button" (script) when you decide a backup is needed.
Of any directory plus differential backups for a specific amount of time.
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Our environment manages thousands of user PCs, provides high-end secure file servers. Users (from new staff to executive-level) are urged to store data to the file servers and generally do so. PCs are acquired with a standard HD image (currently Win XP...
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By allowing these....
Use permissions to control who can write to the hard disks to prevent them being used for file backups.
I would see external backups as a potential file backups.
You mention 'secure file servers' in your question.
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