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Questions tagged [backup-restoration]

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How to ignore hard drives size with Windows Server Backup (Win-2008) restore?

I used Windows Server Backup to backup my 640GB boot drive. Only about 30GB is used, and the backup was very fast. Now I am trying to restore the image to a 500GB hard drive but it is saying that the drive is too small... even though I only had 30GB…
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How to restore only a specific system state item in Windows Server

i have two Windows server in 2012 version, i want backup specific system state item in the first server and recover it on the second server but retaining the roles and system state existents in the second server before the recovery. How to recover…
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System State Backup on Domain Controller

I wanted to do a one-time full server backup of the Domain Controller. However, there was almost 1 TB of data to backup. So I am just doing a System State backup instead, which is less than 5 GB. At our company we use domain logins. Is backing up…
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Expanding a RAID 5 partitions on Dell T610 with PERC 6 with Windows 2008 R2

Here is my dilemma fellas, I have a Dell Poweredge T610 with a PERC 6 RAID controller running on Windows Server 2008 R2. OLD configuration: 3 x 1 TB SAS Drives in RAID 5 configuration I purchased 3 x 1 TB SAS drives to expand the RAID Array.…
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Restoring SBS 2011 backup files without another server?

A small businesses has a Windows Small Business Server 2011 server and uses the SBS Console to make backups to external drives to be stored off-site. How do you restore files from these external backup disks without having another SBS 2011 server?…
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Regular backup and archival options for a client device that runs MS SQL Express including restores

In the current environment, a client application has been deployed on a single endpoint device e.g. laptop. The client application records & retrieves information that is needed for regulatory and compliance purposes and as it stands today, there is…
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mke2fs says "Device or resource busy while setting up superblock"

I'm trying to test restoring a backed up linux file system /apps (ext3 filesystem) /dev/cciss/c0d0p7 177G 3.8G 164G 3% /apps I ran the following command to take a dump: /sbin/dump -0uz -f /backup_labeir1/apps.dmp /apps Then I deleted the…
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Importing bacpac file with 25000 tables on SQL Server fails with timeout

I'd like to import a bacpac file that was exported from an 500MB DB that however has around 25000 tables. The bacpac itself is around 18MB. Importing through the UI of SQL Server Management Studio fails with OutOfMemoryException so I'd use…
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HP-UX merging two volume group

I have a system with 3 volume group (vg00, vg01 and vgdata). I need to make a bootable tape, so I used the command below ad backup completed successfully. make_tape_recovery -a /dev/rmt/0mn -x inc=vg00 -x inc=vg01 (this is not the exact syntax of…
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How to restore a backup from a tgz file in linux

How can i restore from a backup.tgz file generated from another linux server on my own server? I tried the command the following command: tar xvpfz backup.tgz -C / The above command worked, but it replaced the existing system files which made my…
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What would be an ideal outsourced/third party offsite backup vault solution?

Looking to find a service that offers rsync or dirvish abilities to do auto backups of my website and all content and databases into something like a data vault. Basically, rather than just a CDN to have an additional place to store files, I would…
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Time difference between servers after disaster recovery

We are running an old training system based on Windows Server 2003 and XP-clients. The solution is rather simple with four servers, two of them beeing DC:s. Everything is preconfigured and that goes for backup scheme as well. The backup software is…
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DFS Nameserver is broke

Our RAID array which housed the File server VMDK is no more. This was a Windows Server 2003 install which was the file server and contained the DFS Namespaces. The RAID array with all the files is intact and the data is working fine. We have created…
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Is there a way to list files that can be recovered from rdiff-backup

I am testing rdiff-backup as a possible backup solution. There is one thing i cant find how to do and was wonder if it is possible. If I am backing up directories on a server. e.g. server:/shareddir If I delete a file in…
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Restore Mdf file from a crashed hard disk

I have a MS SQL server 2005 database on my database server. Recently the database server crashed, so I need to move the database to a new server. Is there anyway to restore teh mdf file from a crashed hard disk, assuming that the file wasn't located…
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