Questions tagged [backup]
Making copies of data so that the copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event, or for historical retention.
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Does External Backup Hardisk is usually slow? [closed]
I have purchased a new Seagate Backup Plus 1 TB 2.5" USB 3.0. I have notice that it copy files with a very low rate. I did some test using crystaldiskmark as follow.
as you can see it write in a very ...
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Make a copy of my current desktop state [duplicate]
I have just installed Windows 7 (for the 10th time),
installed all my required software,
made all the little tweaks that I want in Windows.
I want to be able to save this condition of my computer so ...
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Download multiple files from ftp server with bash script
I have 2 or 3 FTP Servers where our hoster puts database backups each day. Since he only keeps one, I was orded to write a bash script for downloading alle database backups every day so we have more ...
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Running programs from external hard drive
I have a three year old Samsung laptop that has “Instant On” feature. It was terrifically fast when new but now its as just as slow as my old desktop. I’d like to reformat my computer so that I could ...
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Make backups every N minute via Windows backup tool
Trying to make a backup of a certain folder with high frequency
but the minimal option is day.
Is this possible?
I tried also cmd tool wbadmin but partial backups are not supported in it.
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How to create password for WD MyPassport if drive doesn't show up in WD Smartware Settings tab?
Is it possible to set a password for Western Digital Smartware backups on a WD My Passport Ultra once the backup function has already been used? When I go to the Settings tab, it only shows my ...
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My application icons dissapeared after restoring (from backup), how to get them back?
My laptop harddisk crashed. However, since I use a backup solution (HP Autonomy), I managed to restore most of the documents and files that had been backed up, after reinstalling the operating system, ...
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Move folders from various locations to a specific folder -- Win. 8
I just purchased an external hard drive and was thinking about moving my movie backups over to it. The problem with this is that I didn't really take the time to organize my movie backups to begin ...
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Backup Git repository from Xcode server
I have a OSX server with the Xcode service activated. The server hosts multiple git repositories, git is installed automatically by the service Xcode server.
I use Time Machine, but the problem is ...
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Windows 8 pro: backup to pendrive connected to router usb
I have a Windows 8 pro pc, I'd like to connect a pendrive to my router (it supports this, the pen is seen as a network share) and use it to backup my pc with the standard MS backup tool.
Will it work?...
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How to efficiently restore all RAW photos from sparsebundle/time machine backups?
I got into a problem were a large number of my raw photos have been deleted over time but I'm pretty sure they are on my time machine backup, but manually using OSX timewarp UI to go and find these ...
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Recovering a damaged PGD file
Recently, I got a disk crash and one partition of my HDD was wiped out. I used EaseusDataRecoveryWizard to search for some important files I had. There are 2 PGD files, virtual disks used by PGP ...
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WD My Cloud impossible to reach (SSH, HTTP, Samba/NFS): How to back up my contents and do a Full Factory Restore?
I own a WD My Cloud (WD My Cloud 4TB Personal Cloud Storage - NAS, model WDBCTL0040HWT-NESN, to be specific). I set it up to allow SSH access, which worked great for months. However, I ran apt-get ...
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Hobocopy VSS PST File Backup Script
We have a daily backup with acronis on our server, but for extra sanity I want to copy the .pst files from our file server to another server.
I am using forfiles on 2008 and Hobocopy 1.0 stable, ...
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Auto-remap Windows shares?
I backup teacher laptops to a Windows server share. Unfortunately, when they go home still logged in and come back the next day, the share isn't automatically remapped, so backups fail. Is there any ...
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rsnapshot or similar tool for no added size differential backup
I've currently got a backup that backs up all my files to an external hard drive, but currently I am traveling and I want to backup file changes, but without having to duplicate all the files, or ...
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How to backup Windows user data to restore on a Mac afterwards?
I have a Windows laptop(old) and a Mac laptop(new) and have lots of pictures, music, and documents on Windows laptop. Also I'm aware of the fact that the programs I have installed won't carry over to ...
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Backup folders through portable hard drive intermediate
I have folders with large amounts of data (TB) in need of backups, and I have a collection of hard drives to store the backups in. The problem is, the computers here are not authorized to connect to ...
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Linux Full Disk Backup of a Remote System?
I have a home file server in the following configuration:
4 HDDs of 2TB each
1 USB flash drive running the Debian OS of 8GB
I would like to make a full disk backup of the OS flash drive to another (...
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How can I repair a totally corrupt rpm db on centos 6.4 with no backup?
I am looking for help in repairing my Centos 6.4 rpm db. I had a disk failure and the backup rpm i have is not working also.
I have googled the request and have come up with many different solutions ...
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Efficiently backing up a folder with thousands of files/folders when only structure has changed [closed]
I have a folder which is backed up weekly to an external drive, approximately 150GB. There are approximately 36,000 music files. I've changed the folder structure drastically so that nearly half those ...
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"2 way" NAS 'time-machine' backup [closed]
For off-site backup purposes I am looking at putting a NAS in 2 places (my own and another) and having them sync. This can be done with rsync obviously, but I'm looking for a bit more security data-...
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Remote Backup Solution
I have a customer who is looking for an extra backup. He already uses Western Digital's cloud backup as well as swapping out his physical backup drives once a week and bringing it offsite.
He is ...
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Can I restore a Unix server by copypasting system directories from a backup?
I messed up a Ubuntu server with lots of installed binaries, settings, etc. I'm going to have to reinstall Ubuntu, but I have a complete backup, hidden files and all, though not bootable. I'm hoping ...
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mysql backup verification
Im not a dabase admin or advanced database user or advanced linux user.. but I would like to know how to verify mysql dumps because I am backing up my own sites manually.
Normally when backing up lot ...
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Migrating files from Windows to Linux
I am converting my Windows 7 to an Arch Linux machine, and was wondering what the safest way to backup my files for use on Linux was.
I don't want to use the Windows Backup and Restore facility as ...
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slim down Firefox Portable for backup
I'm using Firefox Portable from portableapps.com
Occasionally, I want to backup the whole folder for safekeeping, but the backup usually takes very long time. I am guessing the reason is that there ...
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How to backup data on hard disk before fresh Windows install
My new laptop came pre-loaded with Windows 8. I tried to install Windows 7 but it shows that the drive is partitioned using GPT. Now, I need to delete all partitions and convert it to MBR to install ...
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Sync between machines
How can I set backup from machine A to machine B (via WAN), but have the files in destination B encrypted in some level (password per folder\file)? Is there any solution (free or not) to backing up ...
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Backing up github [closed]
I have a bunch of github directories and have been using a script with the "cp" command to backup to an external USB drive.
I was wondering if I should be backing up directories that I make for ...
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How to make an encrypted Gmail backup on my VPS? [closed]
I'm using offlineimap to backup my Gmail on my VPS, in case Gmail might go down, get hacked or anything else might happen. I want to be able to do the following:
Have a recent backup of all my Gmail ...
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Connect USM hard disk to USB
Yesterday I bought Seagate 2Bay 4 TB NAS business storage.
Seller included Seagate Backup Plus 1 TB USM drive.
The USM disk fits nicely in my NAS, but is it possible to use it as external hard drive?...
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ZFS + dedup: copy many small files fast
I'm running a ZFS backup server (with deduplication) to backup websites and store them with retention. To do this, I transfer all files to the backup server during the first backup, and make a copy of ...
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Back up (save) the same file at periodic intervals
I am saving a stream in my HDD.
I'd like to copy the file periodically into a subfolder backup such that the older versions of the the file are not deleted.
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Assume the original file is ...
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Disk encryption stratagy [closed]
I just ordered a new machine.
The old one is not encrypted, but before I now receive the new one I wanted to ask about a strategy for the new encryption. My main fear is loosing the password and ...
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Batch: backup, then delete old backup
I have a batch script that runs hourly. It connects to an FTP server, downloads a backup file, then deletes the oldest backup (backups are kept for 4hours by default). This is supposed to insulate our ...
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Where is windows backup settings stored in Windows 7?
I use windows [backup and restore] utility to create a scheduled backup on every Sunday 7PM.
I was wondering that where I can find this setting file? If it is a scheduled task, I should be able to ...
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Recovery hard drive
I accidentally formatted my RECOVERY hard drive (of file system type RAW). Actually, I don't really know what was inside it and what was it for, I thought that inside it were all my documents, from ...
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How can I backup my laptop to my ubuntu PC over the ethernet using clonezilla?
After searching the web for hours, I couldn't find a noob-guide for getting the job done. I have read bits of disconnected information here and there about nfs servers, dhcp, samba and so on. I've ...
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Clonezilla failing due to check disk
I'm trying to create an image backup of a laptop with Clonezilla. Once all the settings have been chosen and I try to start the process it displays an error stating that the source drive is scheduled ...
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Monitor or record a robocopy operation
I have a robocopy command that backs up a folder containing over 200K files into another folder called Backup. Lately, I notice that the backup is now taking additional 1hr to complete even though the ...
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I'm trying to run a batch file that test for 4 different files then based on the correct file present it runs the correct command
:: batch file to run backup
@echo off
setlocal
set backup1=="F:\my backups\Disk_1_DataBAckup"
set backup2== "F:\My backups\2_backup_data_to_disk2"
set backup3=="G:\my backups\3_backup_data_to_disk3"
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How to backup SVN repository from one server to another
We have installed subversion 1.6 and SVN client (TortoiseSVN 1.5). We've created a repository on the server which is active now, and we are going to set up a new repository on another server to ...
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Backup the UEFI NVRAM entries in Linux
Is there any way to backup the UEFI NVRAM entries in Linux? (seem impossible as per https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1216104#p1216104, but want to confirm).
My EFI menu has duplicate ...
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OSX Mail restored from backup - many folders missing
Friday I messed up the user account on my macbook (10.9 Maverick). I won't bore you with the details. It seemed like the complete library was reset. I use Crashplan for backup, plus Time Machine. The ...
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SSD caching via Intel SRT and NAS backups, do they cause problems?
I'm wanting to put an SSD as a cache drive using Intel's SRT technology, but am wondering, will running backups throughout the day from my NAS will cause the cache drive to constantly flush out games ...
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Put another HDD in Ubuntu Server 10
I am using Ubuntu Server 10 for LAMP and hosting sites.
I've added a second HDD for backups, but as the Server 10 runs without GUI, I don't know now how to access/configure backups to the second HDD ...
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Lose external space on external HD
I accidentally restored windows image into one drive of my external hard disk using Ghost 1.5 CD. Now that one drive of my external hdd is full, all of the window files and the free space size and ...
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p2p folder synchronization + encryption
I'm trying to implement a cheap backup system using my computer and my friend's computer. The idea is using each other hdd to store a copy of our files through Internet.
Bittorrent Sync would be ...
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WD My Passport Reformat
My WD has run out of space. I have deleted all the files on it, but doing this did not free up space; it is still at capacity. Thus, I was thinking reformatting the drive might purge all the old ...