Questions tagged [incremental-backup]
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How to perform incremental / continuous backups of zfs pool?
How can zfs pools be continuously/incrementally backed up offsite?
I recognise the send/receive over ssh is one method however that involves having to manage snapshots manually.
There are some tools ...
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Duplicity Full Backup Lifetime and Efficiency
I'm trying to work up a backup strategy for some clients, and am leaning towards duplicity for remote backup (already use rdiff-backup for internal/on location backups).
Is it reasonable to want a ...
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btrfs-enabled backup solution
With btrfs hitting production in Oracle EL 14th this month (together with working fsck and scrubbing from Linux 3.2) I was thinking of redesigning my current backup solution to utilise it. Note that I'...
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How can I restore a duplicity backup from a certain date?
Is it possible to restore a duplicity backup from a certain time in the past?
For example, if I'm making daily incremental backups, is there a way to restore a backup from three days ago?
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How to provide proper backups for multiple Linux based servers? [closed]
There have been several questions related to providing backups, but most of them were either too specific, intended for home usage or Windows-based.
What I'd like to hear:
How do you ensure that all ...
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What program to use for incremental backup of large single file
I'm looking for a program to make incremental backups of one large file (3GB) on windows systems over internet.
Any idea? Thanks!
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Creating a *Consistent* *Online* MySQL Backup with InnoDB AND MyISAM tables
I just spent hours building a new database server to replace 2 failed servers from a mysqldump file created a month ago, then used my server's bin-logs to bring that mysqldump up to date. Now that I ...
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Incremental backups of Virtual Machines
We currently run a bunch of physical machines. For backups, we've been using dirvish, which is essentially a wrapper around rsync, and doing them incrementally. We're currently pushing a new machine ...
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What backup tool should I use for easy incremental backups? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to provide proper backups for multiple Linux based servers?
I want to do nightly backups of the whole system and be able to rollback to any of last 7 days. And, it must be ...
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Can "tar" backup incrementally?
I have my home folder with a few GB.
Is it possible to run tar on it, create a home.tar.gz, and then for changed files, it creates home1.tar.gz only with modified files from previous tar (thus being ...
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Robocopy /xd with wildcards and sub-paths
I don't think this exact question has been asked before (I looked).
My backup server runs a script using Robocopy, and I want to exclude files that don't really need to be backed up, specifically:
*\...
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How to minimize bandwidth in frequent postgres backup scenario?
I'm looking to make very frequent backup (every hour) of postgres data on several VMs (say 20-50) towards the same archive server.
Here are more data if needed: Ideally, the system should support ...
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Do different rsnapshot retains use the same hard links?
Say I have a weekly and monthly backup configured in rsnapshot. Will the weekly backups create hard links to the same files created by a previous monthly backup (and vice versa)?
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easy way to restore incremental rsync backup?
I have incremental rsync backups of a folder, created with:
rsync --delete -a -v --backup --backup-dir="../backup_`date +%Y-%m-%d`" /orig /backups/dest
so I have a copy of current /orig on /backups/...
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Duplicity Incremental Restores
I use duplicity to manage an encrypted daily incremental and weekly full backup schedule for my Linux box. Though duplicity allows incremental backups, I could not find any way to do anything other ...
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Efficiently get file deltas for backups
With many large Xen sparse image files that have to be backed up, I'm looking for a way to do this efficiently both in terms of disk space (saving space with a differential tool like duplicity, bup, ...
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tar incremental backup is backing everything up, every time when used on the Dropbox directory
I made an incremental backup about 10 months ago (on Jan 27, 2013), creating a .snar metadata file. Now, when I try to make an incremental backup using
tar --create --file=dropbox_incremental_1.tar --...
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Back up incremental snapshots to another volume
I'm looking for a way to implement something close to the following backup scheme:
Initially, a full image is copied to the backup target.
Periodically (e.g. nightly), only blocks that have changed ...
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I want to version control my entire slice
I'm renting a slice (i.e., a VPS) from Slicehost. I've a spent a day or two filling up /usr with my favorite packages, /etc with configs and init scripts, and so on. Now I want to:
save this whole ...
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SQL Server "Quick" Incremental backup?
I'm working on a very large database (250+ gigs) with well over 225 million records. The database is hard to work with simply from its sheer size. This database is read-only.
We're looking at getting ...
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Can rsync do incremental backups if the initial full was done with robocopy?
For example, say I have a full backup done using robocopy. Can I then use rsync to replicate just the changes? Or will rsync do another full copy? I don't want that to happen because it's over a slow ...
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How do I backup a couple of macs to a Linux sever?
I currently use rsync with --link-dest to get an incremental Time Machine-ish backup of few sources with a variety of operating systems to a single Linux box. I swap out the backup drive to an ...
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open source backup system with user-driven recovery
At my old company we used NetApp, which supported a ".snapshot" feature. Whenever I did something stupid to my files, I could cd .snapshot and find hourly and nightly directories which contain ...
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Why keep full and incremental backups in different pools?
I have just started using Bacula and it is great, one tutorial I read recommended putting full backups in a different pool (disk) to incremental backups.
What would the benefit of sperating full and ...
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Windows Server 2008 System State Backup
What I'm looking for, is info on what is contained in the server 2008 system state backup. It is incredibly large (10+ G), and annoying to backup remotely. is there a way to take a full system state,...
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Windows 2016 incremental backup to network share
I`m new to Windows 2016 Server. Is there a way to make an incremental backup to network share using native backup software?
I found only one way to do this - create a virtual hard drive file. Is this ...
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rsync --inplace not reading target file?
I'm trying to optimize the daily backup of a LVM snapshot of a large MySQL database. It works quite ok when I just cp the files (local RAID to other local RAID), with an average speed of ~100MB/s. But ...
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Backup Strategy: Online Off-site backup like Time Machine
I've a linux VPS hosted in a VPS datacenter.
I need to implement backup on it. I'll order The Planet's Stored Cloud to do this.
http://www.theplanet.com/cloud-storage/
My question is about the ...
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best practice? Consumer data in MySQL on Amazon EBS (Elastic block store)
This is a consumer app, so I will care about storage costs - I don't want to have 5x copies of data lying about. The app shards very well, so I can use MySQL and not have scaling issues.
Amazon EBS ...
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Backup software that recognizes moved files [closed]
I had a similar question a few months ago Good backup/archiving software?
Right now i have been using Norton Ghost but i notice if i move large files (100mb+) it will make another copy of it. It eats ...
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Backing up the open-source edition of Zimbra mail
Background:
We run the open-source edition of Zimbra mail (5, not 6 yet) and while it's not something that we want to encourage (prevention is better than a cure), we currently have no way of backing ...
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Duplicity "add-only" incremental backup
I have a large duplicity backup stored in a server that would be too slow and costly to fully restore, but I want to perform an incremental backup of a relatively small amount of data that was missing ...
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How to write rsync command to backup everything except hardware specific files
I have a VPS production server that serves web apps that I make for clients. I have an rsync cron job running on my dev server that does a daily backup of the entire production server.
#!/bin/sh
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Will a Veeam 8 Snapshot Backup be be unable to restore my non-quiescable file-based databases if someone is logged in to them at the time?
We have some very old file-based databases (multi-user, but not Server-based) that are running on some VMs on an VMWare ESXi.
Setup
HyperVisor
The ESXi is running ESXi version 5.1.0
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What's the best way to schedule a command to run, assuring a previous set of commands have completed?
Namely, I need to rotate backup folders. I have many machines on a schedule to rsync to a single backup machine. Although I schedule the backups to begin in the late evening, and schedule a folder ...
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Should this be the last backup of the year?
I have a question about a Grandfather, Father, Son 21 Backup Strategy... (the 21 stands for the number of volumes) which I have worked out on the following spreadsheet (see in Google Drive): https://...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 backup - what is generating all the change data?
We have a small, relatively idle Windows Server 2008 R2 installation that does basic file sharing and hosts Exchange for about 10 not very active users.
When running a windows server backup, the ...
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Bandwidth-friendly backup strategy using tar?
We've used tar to backup and compress (gzip) selected directories on our file server with very good results until recently.
Each and every one of our backups are stored on mirrored (RAID) harddrives ...
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Why do I need to backup the Exchange Logs during a Full VSS backup
Suppose I have a backup application that performs scheduled backups of my Exchange Server using the VSS API: Why does the backup application need to backup all the log files as well as the .edb file ...
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Backup Linux server onto windows server or DPM server/owner and rights in NTFS?
We are using a rsync based backup for our Lonux servers which is fantastic. We rsync all our Linux server onto our large Linux base samba fileserver. Unfortunately that server is completely outdated ...
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Azure Backup Change Source Location
I have a small client who uses Azure Backup and Replication to perform a cloud backup of profile data and a file share that was sitting on a failing NAS.
I mounted the new NAS via ISCSI to the file ...
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Offsite Incremental Encrypted Backups for a small law office [closed]
I am the system administrator for a small law office.
We have a local file server on our network that holds all of our digital records. The server is running Windows 8, but uses Cygwin.
I currently ...
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How can I see the expire date of a file in Tivoli Storage Manager?
If I understand correctly, when I do an incremental backup and a file has been removed from the client, the server marks it as inactive which makes it eligible for purging when the expire time has ...
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Windows 2012 Incremental Backup
I'm running Windows 2012, using the built in Backup to perform backups.
I want the first backup to be full, and then incremental thereafter.
I have the following test scenario set up:
Backup ...
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How to incrementally backup XenServer VMs [closed]
I am looking for a way to backup XenServer (or XAPI) VMs
incrementally. backup just changed data every time.
without performance penalty, slowing down the server after the backup is done (snapshots ...
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MySQL incremental backups and database replication
We have some servers that runs a tomcat app with a MySQL database. These servers are in different cities and the web app is used locally by our customers.
On these servers a crontab job runs twice a ...
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Do incremental backups from Linux
I want to make incremental backups on a Linux machine, on the next way:
BACKUP1 BACKUP2
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which linux distro favours remote administration and remote incremental backup over vpn?
My partner runs a small accounting practice. The computer support guy has recently gone out of business, so I've been volunteered (!) to replace the aging company server.
I should say that my ...
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Create a SQL Server full backup without affecting maintenance plan?
We use a centralized SQL Server 2005 server for web development. The server has a maintenance plan to take a full backup each Sunday and incremental backups on all other nights. All databases use ...
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is scheduled backup via standard windows backup gui supported over network?
OS Windows server 2008 Standard [note: this is not R2]
Plot we are trying to switch from usb attached backups to over the network backup
Issues: When i use the standard Windows backup GUI and ...
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