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Questions tagged [backup-restoration]

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Is this script comprehensive enough to restore IIS and Security Settings?

We want to make sure that the script below will capture all needed configuration settings to restore on a new machine IIS and all Security Settings. 'This script will dump a daily system state backup to the directory ' c:\sysstatebkup\ on every…
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Windows 2008 R2 Backup to DVD

Been playing with Windows 2008 R2 and I ended up creating a backup of my test server and stored the backup files on my local machine. How can I copy the backup files from my local machine to a DVD? Also, would I be capable of using the backup files…
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Backup and Restore ADAM database

I was trying to backup and restore an ADAM database to a different server the other day. I copied all files under "Program Files/Microsoft ADAM" folder to the same path in the destination server and started the ADAM service in the destination server…
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Accessing data on SAS drives if server fails

If my server goes down, how can i access the data on the SAS drives? I don't have another server to plug them into, and even then connecting the drive to a different controller (while keeping the data) is not a certain thing. Yes, we have a full…
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What tape backup device can read a DC 2120 XL cartridge?

While preparing to move to a new house, I came across two forgotten tape backup mini cartridges from 1996. I know they hold the only backup I made of my original Remote Access BBS, with all my original Star Trek themed ANSI art, DOS/OS2 shareware,…
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Restore SBS 2008 Backup to Same Hardware but Different Disk Configuration

We've got a Dell T610 Server with SBS 2008 on it, running Exchange Server, SQL Server Express, DHCP, Active Directory, Sharing Files and Printers, etc. We currently have (4) Seagate Savvio 15K 146GB hard drives in RAID 5 on a PERC6/i RAID…
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Do I need to use apply-log with innobackupex

I'm using innobackupex to backup my databases like this: usr/local/bin/innobackupex --user=bkpuser --password='example' --rsync \ --no-timestamp /pathtobackup 2> /pathtobackup/innobackupex.log Now this page says "However there are transactions…
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Restoring subversion from hot-backup.py backup

Ive been creating backups of my subversion repository using hot-backup.py. I've had no problems restoring from these backups in the past. But today I noticed that my "ABCD" repository is backed up in the following format (latest revision is…
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Restore utility error

I want to restore a .bkf file created on SBS 2003, to a SBS 2011. I have downloaded and instaled restore utility, but I am getting this error Unable to write data to c:\foldername This security id may not be assigned as the owner of this…
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Mirroring an entire machine

What's the most appropriate way to constantly mirror all the settings and data from one Linux machine to another? I have a critical server, which I'd like to have a "hot spare" available for in case any component failure takes it offline. I have…
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Need help recovering PostgreSql database to a new server

As said in the topic I need some help restoring a database to a new server. There is a production database on one server - I do a daily automated backup of that database to a remote location: pgdump, binaries, and bzipped logs. Now I want to create…
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Duplicity restore reports "Invalid SSH password" when I'm using a private key for connection

I'm testing the restoration of a backup with duplicity 0.6.15. I can login to my backup server just fine using ssh and sftp using the following commands and my private key: ...sftp root@client:~# sftp -oPort=7843 backupUser@192.168.x.x Enter…
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Back up Windows 2008 SBS to iSCSI disk

I've almost no experience with SBS 2008, so please excuse my noob question! SBS 2008 only has the most basic backup utility built in as far as I can tell (similar to Vista), and it will only back up to physical volumes. I've read that you can set up…
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Upgrading from apache 2.2.6 to 2.2.20. A big jump: what might break?

Like the title says, a long-overdue upgrade is needed from Apache 2.2.6 to 2.2.20. I have read this page http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/en/install.html#upgrading and I have the config.nice file. But I am nervous about what could go wrong. I will…
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kvm snapshot (libvirt)

Iam managing kvm by libvirt and using qcow2 file format. I can create snapshots of running wm with snapshot-create command, but if I transfer my qcow2 image to another host and define transfered host by virsh define, I cant see snapshots created…
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