backup-strategies

Should I be backing up a webapp's data to another host continuously?

I have a webapp in development. I need to plan for what happens if the host goes down. I will lose some very recent session status (which I can live with) and everything else should be persistently stored in the database. If I am starting up again after an outage, can I expect a good host to reconstruct the database to within minutes o...

Is there a way to only backup a SQL 2005 database structure fully, but only the data in a certain set of schemas?

I have several schemas in my database, and the largest one ("large" meaning disk space consumed) is my "web" schema which is a denormalized copy of data in the operational schemas. This denormalized data is able to be reconstructed at anytime, and is merely there for extremely fast read purposes. Since the data is redundant, and VERY...

Encrypted FTP Storage

I guess this is kind of a programming question, because I'm going to write a program if this doesn't exist. So I found a very cheap web-host (I don't really care about the actual web hosting). They will give me a domain name and ftp server with a ton of storage space. Anyway, I want to backup a few hundred gigs of data (mostly family ph...

SQL Server differential backup file size smaller than previous one ??

Hey, I have a production system running on an SQL Server 2008 DBMS, in Full recovery mode. I take a full backup each day at midnight, a log backup every two hours, and a differential backup every 6 hours (06:00, 12:00, 18:00, but not midnight as the full is taken then). In recent days however I've noticed that the diff backup filesize...

How to backup source repository and zip destination folders ?

All sources are on windows OS, and destination backup is on Unix system (we are using Samba). My source repository is similar to : -Repository --Folder1 ---Files --Folder2 ---Files etc... I would like to get a destination similar to : -Repository --Folder1.zip --Folder2.zip etc... After first backup, I only backup files that h...

Looking for a backup solution to back up partially a database and select folders from an online host

Hi guys, I wasnt sure where to post this but nevertheless I'm looking for a solution to take backups of partial databases i.e a select set of tables from a database like a SQL file and download it to a local disk on a periodic basis plus a solution with which I can download an archive of select folders from a web host - that too periodic...