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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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 en-of-month full backups
those ...
