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Is there ANY backup tool that can handle 256 path length limit on NTFS?
Is there ANY backup tool that can handle 256 path length limit on NTFS ?
I'm not talking about a sync or filecopy tool like robocopy,
but an incremental backup tool like cobian backup (which cannot ...
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Backup of a game-map
I admin a dedicated server that hosts a multiplayer game.
This game uses a map that now is 1.5 GB but will be soon 2.3 GB. We have just one SATA HD.
We would like to save the map every hour in the ...
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Automatic incremental backups to a network drive (Windows)
So after learning that Windows 7 Home Premium doesn't support this, I'm looking for another solution. I would like to backup my Windows machine to my Ubuntu server. Are there any good automatic ...
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What backup tool should I use for easy incremental backups? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Could you suggest feature-rich disk-based personal backup program for linux (and I've seen a few)?
I want to do nightly backups of the whole system and be able to ...
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Truecrypt Rsync Container
Is there a good way to incrementally sync truecrypt containers? I currently have large containers (200gb+), and I'd like to find a way to back them up without having to mount them. Rsync seems to not ...
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Windows Server Backup is not incremental after full backup
I did set Windows Server Backup as complete server backup and it did incremental backups on daily basis - till a few days ago.
Windows Server Backup doesn't allow scheduled & incremental backups ...
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Preboot/live CD disk image backup solution w/ block-level incremental and merge support
I know there have been many queries regarding backup, but this one is rather demanding. I should also mention that I've done a fair amount of googling, but was unable to find what I need.
I need a ...
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Incremental (delta) backup of a encrypted data
I have several files that I need to keep encrypted on my home hard disk.
I currently use a TrueCrypt file container, currently around 100MB in size. I need to backup this file daily, and I'm looking ...
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RSync Backup Strategy for home computer does not recurse into all directories
I am running a Linux Mint workstation at home and I am following the backup strategy from this page: http://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html. The destination drive is a eSata drive identical to the ...
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Software for system backup, with differential backups and bootable restorations
Reminder: I do understand that we have tens and perhaps over a hundred of questions associated with the backup and community faqs are being written for that but I am asking a different question. If ...
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Mercurial for Source Control (and backup) instead of Subversion
Currently I'm using Subversion for keeping source changes centralized and also as a single point of backup. All users commit changes to the server and the server is backed up.
I'm wondering how ...
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Rsync-based Backup solution for Kubuntu [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Automatic backup solution for Linux (maybe a GUI for rsync)?
hey there
I am kinda a bit lost in the multiple options so any recommendations will be more then welcomed. ...
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What files should be excluded from a complete Windows backup?
I'm starting to use CrashPlan to backup my Win 7 PC. I've got it writing to my external HD (for quick local restores) and to CrashPlan Central (for offsite storage). I'd like to backup my entire C:\ ...
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SW recommendation for background backup of selected folders
I'm looking for SW utility (for Windows 7 x64) which is able to run as background process, monitor selected folders and synchronize changes to backup folder on different drive (incremental backup). It ...
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Free software for backing up an attached network drive
My wireless router comes with a USB connector which allows me to plug an external hard drive in and it'll act as a Network Attached Storage. The problem is that I want to backup this hard-drive to the ...
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Secure, efficient, version-preserving, filename-hiding backup implemented in this way? [closed]
I tried writing a "perfect" backup program (below), but ran into
problems (also below). Is there an efficient/working version
of this?:
Assumptions: you're backing up from 'local', which you own ...
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faster dd backup by differential copy
im looking to use dd to back up my whole hard drive regularly but it takes around 1.5 hours and want to know if there is a faster way to back up.
possibly just by updating the bytes which are ...
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DVD RW: Are they still relevant for backups? [closed]
With the availability of compact USB memory sticks with much, MUCH higher storage capacities is there still any use-case for taking periodic, incremental backups on DVD/RWs?
The DVD/RW has an ...
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Incremental image backup for Windows 7
I'm looking for a backup program that does incremental backups and that I can use to completely image my main hard drive.
For example I use the C:\ as my main drive and have E:\backups as my backup. ...
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Backing up 80G hard drive 1G per day
I want to securely backup my 80G HD, but doing a complete backup takes
forever and slows down my machine, so I want to backup just 1G per
day. Details:
% First hurdle: on the first day, I want to ...
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Could you suggest feature-rich disk-based personal backup program for linux (and I've seen a few)?
I'm using linux on desktop since about 1996. Every time I changed my desktop or notebook, I've taken my linux with me via "dump | ssh | restore".
Along the way, I went through half a dozen HDD ...
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Backup software for incremental swapped-out drives?
We're using Acronis Home 11 to backup our main Windows machine at the office. We have a set of portable hard drives that we swap out each week, for redundancy. We have incremental sets ( a new diff of ...
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Backup software for Ubuntu - which one?
I have spent some time testing out different backup solutions for my small home office during the last weeks, but still haven't found anything that have been working out too well yet. We can ...
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Filesystem to quickly get recent modifications
I've got relatively big filesystem (ext4) with lots of small files and I'd like to backup it. Making full backups often is not feasible to me so I want to have a way to make differential/incremental ...
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Can one do incremental backups from a server with Filezilla (how?)
Can one do incremental backups from a server with Filezilla and if so how?
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On demand incremental NTFS partition backup
This is somewhat a continuation of my related failed question. I've decided to go with a filesystem approach rather that the whole disk in one chunk. I'm wondering what the best way to do this is. I'm ...
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Does built in Windows 7 backup perform differential (incremental) backups?
I have win 7 scheduled to backup every Sunday, it's only looking at one of my drives at the moment and is backing up to an external HDD. It's a 1TB drive so should take quite a while to fill but the ...
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Offset AND incremental backup
I already do backups from my main computer to my server computer using synctoy.
But now I also want to do off-site backup.
My idea so far:
have source hard drive (we'll call S) at home
have backup ...
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How to incrementally backup whole HDD to external from Windows?
What I want exactly is a hard drive to hard drive incremental backup, not an image file.
The original HDD has three partitons - ext3, linux-swap, and NTFS.
What would be the easiest way to do this ...
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Incremental backup and sync software
I need a free software for Windows (with gui or command line) that does incremental backup copying all files and storing changed or deleted files in a directory named like last change date (or a ...
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Sync remote folders on Linux
What is the simplest way to unidirectional incremental syncing of a folder present on a Linux system.
+1 for using the command line.
+2 for not using rsync (Seems to have some problems on my system.)
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How to automate server backups in Windows Home Server?
I've set up a server backup for my Windows Home Server in the WHS console, but don't see a way to automate the backup to have it run on a scheduled basis in a similar manner to client backups. How can ...
