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Restoring an Windows system image to a smaller drive
I recently had two 320GB HDDs on Raid 0 running on my main computer, and decided to split it in order to use one of the HDDs on another computer.
A windows system image of about 150GB was made on a ...
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Software for making a backup of a offline harddisk
As a computer technician, I'm allways on the search for software which can make my work a little faster and more efficient.
Does anyone know software to make a backup of a mounted drive (as in ...
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Is there any freeware software to ghost a RAID 1 disk?
Where I can find freeware software to ghost a RAID 1 disk?
I installed Windows XP on a Dell server with a supported RAID card. I tried to ghost it using FOG project, but I think it doesn't support ...
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Does built in Windows 7 backup handle paths > 256 chars?
Does built in Windows 7 backup handle paths > 256 chars ?
I'm doing NTFS to NTFS backup using Cobain, from external drive to external drive, and it's simply NOT backing up those files that have ...
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Backup Windows to Server
I have a server running Windows Server 2008 R2. Is there a way for me to back up my PCs to my server so that they can be recovered completely by the server?
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How can I backup my Debian VPS to my local Windows Server?
I've just set up my VPS (Debian 6) and configured everything nicely and I now want to get a backup in place. I have a Windows 2008 server running at home that I would like to use if possible. Is there ...
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Proper way to backup and restore my python installation
I am about to re-install my WinXP. I have Python 2.7.2 installed on it with many standard and third party libraries. I would like to back up the c:/python27 directory before reinstalling the OS, ...
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backup firefox bookmark and other personal files bash script
i am migrating from windows to ubuntu for my personal desktop and i want to know an easy way to backup personal data such as firefox bookmark, personal documents, etc....
in windows i copy everything ...
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How to mirror a hard disk and restore it later without OS installed?
My windoes 7 has been installed on a 128gb SSD drive C:. Unfortunately I screwed some programs that now I require to reinstall windows again.
But before formatting my OS drive I want to make a mirror ...
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Freeware Backup utility - with shadow copy ability?
I search for a free software that can use Shadow Copy.
In XP I can use Cobian, but in Win2008/x64 that Shadow Copy cannot accessable.
With Windows Backup I have problem that I have only one HDD.
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Best backup solution for multiple hard drives?
I've got many hard drives. However I cannot find a decent application to keep two partitions in sync (master-slave).
I've got:
2x 2TB
1x 500GB (USB/External/Portable)
1x 500GB (Boot, Win7)
1x 400GB ...
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Windows backup didn't restore any of my applications
Virtually everything under program files were skipped. I can't start re-installing of my programs. I am currently transferring all the files under program files to a new directory so I can place them ...
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Bootable backup for Windows (7) - Like Super Duper for Mac
Just got an SSD installed on my notebook and as people suggested I want have my bases covered in case it fails and I expect it to fail.
Here is what I have in mind... keep a partition on the main ...
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Windows, same mountpoint for two different Drives
I want to use two different HDD's to making backups. The backups I make with acronis.
So I need a path for the Backup Destination, what have always to be the same, when Drive A is attached and when ...
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How to verify NAS is configured in Windows 2008 Server?
How can I verify that my NAS is configured to backup to my Windows 2008 Server?
I have checked the mount devices on my server using the following command.
diskpart list volume
But I can see there ...
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Rsync and Windows 7
Can someone give me any tips on setting up some sort of Rsync server/client on Windows 7 to run rsync between both my web hosting server, and a backup server that I have running Ubuntu? I've tried ...
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Mounting old home directory from Windows 7 Image
I used dd to create an entire image of my hard drive before I reformatted. Windows 7 was installed. I've mounted that image using OSFMount (which, by the way, works great!). The problem I'm ...
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Backup and Restore Windows on Virtual Machine [closed]
What if I make backup of Windows XP (say, with Acronis) on VMware and store it on shared folders with original Windows and after restore this backup on my Windows XP installed on hard drive? Thanx.
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How do I backup a partition?
I want to backup a partition of my present harddisk to another hard-disk. If I use Windows Backup, it only offers to backup the system drive. I have a partition/drive which contains some precious ...
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FTP backup for Windows 7 that works like iDrive
I am looking for a backup program that has the following features.
Backup to FTP server.
Only backups the changes in the files.
Keeps tracks of file versions, so I can go back in history of each ...
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Windows Batch File that zips files from ftp location? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What kind of window's batch file allows zipping of ftp files?
Basically I want to keep backups of my xbmc files on my xbox, that is on the home network.
I already ...
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Hidden Backup HDD
I have a spare HDD in my computer which I use Backup and Restore in Windows Control Panel to backup to automatically. I only want this hard drive for this one feature. How can I hide the Hard Drive so ...
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Windows incremential copy files keeping all versions with datetime in filename
I need to track changes to folders with files like jpg or docx, and make a copy to another folder.
I need to make a copy of the file when it changes, keeping the filename and adding the current ...
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What NAS product / software allows me to securely map a drive letter to Windows 7 over the internet?
I want to put a NAS drive at a relative's house to serve as my offsite backup. Can you suggest a solution:
Not too expensive
Minimum 1TB of storage
NAS must be stand-alone: no help from router ...
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Sleep Computer when Windows Backup completes?
My laptop is set to run weekly backups, but unfortunately it often takes many hours to backup the small drive (for whatever reason). I like to leave it running at night-time while I'm not using it, ...
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Is it possible to restore a Windows 7 installation from a Windows backup?
I bought an HP laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium preinstalled. It has a label with Windows serial number. However a Windows Installation DVD was not provided. I want to repartition the HDD to install ...
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Windows imaging/backup at shutdown?
While I am still looking for a backup solution that works for dummy users, I have found one feature that (apparently) none of the backup+imaging software tools I've found does:
Doing a harddisk image ...
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Use Linux to backup a MSWindows network?
Is it possible to use a Linux machine to backup everything on a Windows network?
I would like to backup MS databases and also drives, so if a database record needs restoring, it can be done easily, ...
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Restore Windows disk image to virtual machine?
I'm currently looking into (image based) backup solutions for Windows (XP, Win7).
One problem I have is that I'm not sure how to verify that the backups can really, actually, reliably be restored ...
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Overwrite your Windows folder with a backed up copy
Currently attempting to restore a backup. I'm left wondering whether HP intends for me to just overwrite my whole C: drive with the contents from the backup. Overwriting the Users folder, Application ...
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How does one split a set of files across a set of DVDs?
I have a set of files which total about 12 GB, which I would like to burn to a few DVDs. I could manually try to "bucket" things, but it would be nice if there was a piece of software which could put ...
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Duplicate file & folder detection tool with backup
I'm looking for a tool that will
detect duplicate files or folders,
delete them,
but before deletion will copy the file to backup folder just in case the program made a mistake and detect a non ...
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Is it possible to create or store a Windows backup system image on a non-NTFS drive?
I'm trying to use Windows Backup on Windows 7 to create a system image to a network location. The destination, identified by UNC path, is an Apple Time Capsule formatted with HFS+. While Windows ...
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windows system backup does not recognize second hard disk anymore
I used to take my windows system backups on D: (windows 7 is installed on C:). D: is a 2x300GB RAID0 installation and was (and still is) working fine. Apart from backups, D: was also my big-files ...
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Possible to remove unwanted files from an NT Backup .bkf file?
Our office uses NTBackup on Windows Server 2003 to create a monthly full backup and a daily incremental backup.
A new sysadmin bypassed quotas and stuck a few hundred gigabytes of ISO files in a ...
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How can I backup Windows 7 with programs and files?
Is there any way that I can reinstall Windows 7 and put all my programs and files back on the system without reinstalling programs one-by-one, like a Mac?
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Backup solution for a whole HDD on a laptop?
I'm thinking about getting a laptop to replace my desktop except for gaming (rare these days).
However I'd like to know all my data on the laptop is backed up on another hard drive; especially when I ...
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I'm looking for a better way to backup my stuff 400GB [closed]
I'm looking for a better way to backup my stuff 400GB.
I have a folder called C:\Pocket and everything important is in that folder,
Right now, I have a 1TB external harddrive and every week or so I ...
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How to configure automatic backup for MySQL from Workbench?
I want to configure scheduled backup of my db's, regularly export to 1 file all db's. Is it possible with the help of Workbench? If it's possible how to do it? Please explain step by step. My os is ...
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How to mirror folders to a different hard drive?
What I have:
RAID 0 partition with 3 disks (A)
a 500 gb disk (B)
What I want to do:
Mirror folders from A to B
I want the backup folders to be fully accessible, so a backup program that ...
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Are there free backup clients that will allow me to backup to an offsite server?
I am looking for free backup clients that will allow me to backup directories, documents, etc to an offsite Windows server. The clients will be a mix of Windows, Linux and Mac however predominantly ...
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Should I use Windows' hardlinks for backups?
I'm not exactly backing up but its a similar idea.
I have a few archives on my computer. They have exact copies of certain files (mostly 300k to 1.5MB). It's enough to take up a gigabyte. I am using ...
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Sync data between two disks [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to sync data on two hard drives?
I'm looking for programs to sync two hard disk. For example I want to make backup every month from internal hard disk to external ...
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Does Unison socket mode support ipv6
I have been using Unison for quite some time now for synchronizing data between my machines, and I am very happy with it. Now I need to synchronize two new machines connected via ipv6, but they won't ...
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An application for backing up files just with copying them to path [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Which is the best application to Sync two folders?
I need an application for backing up my files, but just with copying new files to my external hard disk, not to make ...
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What is a good software for periodic backups on Windows? [closed]
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Back-up software for vista
I just ditched Nero's backup utility because of it being incredibly bad and clumsy.
Does anybody know of a good solution for periodic backups ...
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Robocopy copying files from source to destination in backup mode and with file security permissions intact
I need to utilize robocopy to mirror files and folders from one shared location to another shared location, in restartable backup mode with security permissions.
My current command is:
robocopy ...
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How can i compress when I create SQL backup file in a folder?
I use SQL Server Express and I create backup files for all databases every day using Time Scheduling script. One script Like that;
BACKUP DATABASE [Jira]
TO DISK = N'C:\Backup\Jira.bak'
WITH ...
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How can I read a windows backup from ubuntu
I have a backup of a windows system (I think it is win7, but it might be vista). That I took using the windows system tools. I need to be able to access these files from an ubuntu environment.
The ...
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THe best windows backup/snapshot image making software [closed]
What are the best software for making windows image - like symantec ghost does. But the last the time I used ghost, I remember it being very slow, because every time it made an image, it wasn't ...
