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Comparing file differences between an offline and an online linux image

so I hired a freelancer to do some work on my server that required admin access. Before hiring him I took a backup of my debian installation on that server. I have a basic level of trust with this guy but just to be sure is there a way to check the…
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Mailbox file of mutt suddenly disappeared

I have recently seen that my entire mailbox with mutt has suddenly disappeared. I don't know how to backup, if it is possible ? I am on Linux Debian 10. The sent file of all mails sent has not disappeared, that's weird. Maybe there are traces of…
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Problems with USB-Devices using VDR

I'm using VDR on vSphere4. It works sucessfully. I've already backuped several VMs with VDR and I like it very much. But now we got a problem. We have 2 VMs, using an USB-Device Server with a stick plugged in, which is definetely need by these 2 VMs…
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Ubuntu server best practice to backup and restore linux file system

so i have a really important question, and need some advise about linux server OS backup and restore. There is plenty information on google, other sources, but don't have much time to test every solution. I am using Ubuntu server 18 without GUI on…
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MySQL data disappearing after restoring from backup

I recently had to move from one hosting provider to another (if you're in the UK don't use Easyspace for your VPS!) as my previous host dumped my server without warning. Fortunately I had remote backups in place and I've been able to restore almost…
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"chroot", but with a VM?

I just backed up a remote system using rsync. I have a directory that I can chroot into and would now like to boot it up as a VM. I know that qemu has -kernel capability, as well as -drive file=fat: virtual FAT feature. I was hoping that maybe with…
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Butterfly Backup server

I have a Butterfly Backup server. I implemented a solution as described in this article: dev.to. In my sever list, I have two NAS, used as user file repositories; the files change and are changed every minute. For this reason, I have chosen to…
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How to boot vhdx drives?

I recovered a bare metal backup for one hyper-v vm (2012 R2) in the form of 2 vhdx files. How can I boot the backed up vm? Should I burn into a USB/DVD or can I just use an unallocated drive space?
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How to restore an OS disk onto a different, resized Azure VM as its new OS disk?

I am able to create a new virtual machine that's of a larger size than my current one, but I am not able to upgrade or resize an old VM to that larger size even though it's of a pretty similar type. So I'm thinking, since I can't resize the VM in…
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Failed physical DC restored to VM. How to go back?

I've a DC (no secondary in thie environment) with the raid controller failed. I've retored it temporary on a VM using the backup (ShadowProtect). On the system partition I have 2 SQL Express DBs used by software installed only on clients. On a…
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SQL Server restore operation reliability

I have a simple backup scheme on my SQL Server 2008 R2 that performs a weekly full backup and a daily incremental backup. Backups are retained for two weeks and everything works fine albeit there are two small issues: 1) After the second full…
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Restore an Exchange 2007 mailbox from a backed .edb file

Currently testing backing up and restoring with Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008. I have a 'clean shutdown' backup of an Exchange 2007 database. For the exercise I have deleted a users mailbox in Exchange and are attempting to recover it using the .edb…
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How to restore a Debian system with a backup of "/"?

How can I restore my Debian system with a tar-backup of the whole "/"-folder (all files und folders)? Must I create an ISO or what?
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Real Time Data Mirroring in Linux Servers

Which are the different techniques available for real time data mirroring / backup of full server to restore it from a entire system crash? Is it better to purchase a separate server for data mirroring or add a RAID-2 technology in main server is a…
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Restructuring RAID Array (Windows Storage Spaces)

Our current production server has 6 hd's in a RAID 10 array. Technically it's not RAID, but the new Windows Storage Spaces feature in Windows Server 2012 (think software-RAID). These six are used for storing VM servers only, the OS boots from a 60…
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