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Questions tagged [backup-restoration]

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How do data recovery firms recover data from a "dead" hard disk?

The hard drive in my laptop just died, and it's been about a week since I ran a full backup. I know there are companies that specialize in data recovery from dead hard disks. I'm curious how they do this. What steps would one of these companies…
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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/dest and modified files on…
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Looking for a script to restore a SQL server backup

I'm looking for a script to restore a SQL Server 2005 backup. Ideally the script will have the following features handle backup files on a network location Handle different file structure of source and destination server ("With MOVE"?) Written in…
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Restore database from backup file, where file name matches reg expression

I am doing the below : RESTORE DATABASE UAT FROM DISK = 'E:\Databases\backup\MY_LIVE_20120720_070001.bak' WITH REPLACE But I want to be able to use a file location that ignores the numbers in the file name (which represent the date) in my back up…
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Restoring openldap configuration from ldif file?

I am trying to restore my OpenLDAP server from an ldif file I made before it went horribly wrong. All of the websites I found talk about using slapadd but when I run slapadd -v -l ~ns01/openldap_config.ldif it returns the error Could not stat config…
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SQL Server 2005 died

My SQL Server died and I can access the files on the C Drive but booting is a no go. Yesterdays backup is great but need today's data. I found the C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Data with all my databases in there but I am…
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Determine LSN of database in NORECOVERY mode

I'm restoring transaction logs to a database, but need a way to know which transaction log I should start with. Typically I'll see something like this: The log in this backup set terminates at LSN 103000001633300001, which is too early to…
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Restore Oracle 9 backup on Oracle 11 server?

We have a client who is using Oracle 9i on their old server, and they want to switch to Oracle 11 on the new server. They want to backup the old database and restore it on the new server. Is this possible to do directly, or do they need to upgrade…
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Backing up Windows Server 2008 R2 to FTP server

I'm looking for an inexpensive way of backing up my Windows 2008 R2 dedicated server to an FTP server. To be any useful, the software should also be able to restore the server by using a bootable CD and the backup set stored on the FTP server. So…
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How to do scheduled Linux server backup

I need to organize automated backup for databases, websites, ftp, email, etc. at Ubuntu 9.04 and since I've never done it before, I'm looking for places to learn. What needs to be done, what (free) software I could use, tips&tricks, best practices…
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Windows NTFS Data Deduplication and Snapshot Backups

We have a file server (fs00) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP): Running Windows Server 2019 (with Desktop Experience installed). One OS / System disk (250GB SSD) An independent data disk (5TB standard tier) Backups performed via disk snapshots with…
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Can an EFS encrypted folder be backed up in an Azure Recovery Services Vault?

When I try to back up a Windows EFS encrypted folder on a physical server to an Azure Recovery Services Vault the file size is modified upon recovery and the files cannot be opened (are unrecognizable). Am I doing something wrong or is this simply…
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Extract duplicity difftar files manually

I have a duplicity backup which i am not able to recover with duplicity. By calling duplicity file:///path/to/backups /path/to/dir, it returns "Local and Remote metadata are syncronized, no sync needed." but the /path/to/dir is empty. I decrypted…
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Where does Windows Server 2012 R2 Expect to see the WindowsImageBackup folder?

Whenever I try to recover a server from the Windows Reccovery Environment, it never finds the backup image. I tried the networking option, but it never sees it. It scans the share, no error, finds nothing. If I do it "normal," no network share,…
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How to restore a Duplicity backup to a new host?

Had a catastrophic failure on a RAID array and lost everything. Have a full set of backups on S3 via duplicity (2003 files), encrypted with GPG. I have the passphrase and a copy of the private key used to encrypt the backups. I have imported the…
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