I want to create my own incremental backup solution using C#. How can I obtain the difference between two files (version 1 and version 2 of ABC.TXT) and then update ABC.TXT version 1 with the difference? Would appreciate some hints! Thank you! ...
Hello, does there exist a universal database backup/extract format? I'll explain where I'm coming from: our application supports several database vendors, DB2, MsSql, MySql and Oracle. Currently when we request a backup from a customer they must make a full backup in the vendor specific format. We have a small but powerful homegrown u...
I need to backup SQL Server database. Is it possible to do this automatically without human intervention at regular intervals? If so yes then please suggest me how to do it and I'm using SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. ...
Hi, I want to add 'backupp Gmail chats' feature to Gmail Keeper at http://GmailKeeper.com but the chats are not available when accessing Gmail account through IMAP, any other ideas? Thank you. ...
Hey all, I have a physical server hosting 3 production-level VMs using vmware server 1.0.7. What options do i have for safe & painless upgrading? The fact is that what i need more than anything else is online backups, something that 1.0.7 version of vmware server lacks support of. Thanks in advance for all your answers & for your tim...
hi all, i am using SQL server express 2005 as an backend. I created a backup file programmatically.If i use same server , then it restore the data successfuly. however if we try to restore on different server, then it fails. and throw following message "The Backup set Holds a backup of a database other than the existing 'DatabaseName' d...
I am backing up a SQL Server Express database and then restoring on another machine. For some reason the asp.net membership data is not getting transferred. Do I need to do something different. Does ASP.NET membership data not get backed up? ...
Hi All, I need to backup (for debugging) some temporary files meanwhile a program running. I used to do it with rsync-ing the /var/tmp/someprogram directory with find . -iname 'blahblah' -exec rsync -someoptions $DESTdir, which works wonderful. Except the case of someone in some program (for which I don't have source code access, and n...
Is there any benefit to using SSIS over T-SQL to check integrity, defrag/rebuild indexes, and backup databases? Doesn't SSIS break down its internal tasks and containers into basic T-SQL statements anyways? ...
Using http://support.microsoft.com/kb/240184 I'm able to open SAM, SOFTWARE, SYSTEM reg hives, but I do not know the next step to get them copied in a different backup folder? I get Access Denied when I try to use BackupRead API. Any help is much appreciated! ...
I want to setup a cron job to run so that it will automatically backup my MySQL database, while the database is running, and then FTP that backup to my backup server. I assume I can do this using a bash script. Anyone know of a good way to accomplish this? Thanks in advance. ...
Hi guys, I'm trying to create an asp .net page to backup and download an mssql db from my remote host on a shared server. I tried using SMO to create a backup and save it the same folder as the .aspx page but it throws an access denied exception, I later found out that the sql server doesn't have permissions to write backups anywhere bu...
I'm working with an SQL Server database with about 50 tables and plenty of relationships between those tables. I have already written a backup and restore function which will retrieve all data from the model, export it to XML which it could then import again into a clean database. But maintaining this import/export is a lot of work when ...
I have backed up a database into a file using SQL Server from my old server. Now i would like to restore that file into a new database on my new server. I created a DB with the same name , I am getting an error saying : "The Backup set holds a backup of the database other than the existing '*' database" Any thoughts? Thanks ...
I'd like to use a hosted issue-tracking service, but I want to be able to backup my data in case the service goes under. Are there any hosted issue-tracking services that have a "data liberation" strategy and support you periodically copying your issue-tracking data to your local system? If not, does anyone have a clever workaround for...
Is there any eclipse plugin which auto backup a Project every so and so minutes to an email a/c? ...
Hi I'm looking for a commercial/open source backup library in C++. I have seen the Microsoft sync Framework but unfortunatly it requires the .net framework to be installed... Thank you Jonathan ...
Dear All, It must be a pretty common requirement. I have an svn repository having around 1GB data size. To backup I first do a hotcopy into a directory at 12:00AM and then at 1:00 AM, a remote machines pulls this backup using rsync.The source machine on which the svn is installed has rsyncd and is a windows machine. So, everything is wo...
I am a one-computer shop, and increasingly I am thinking I need some redundancy for storing programs and other code. Should I use code.google.com, or sf.net, or codeplex.com or another online Source Control system for this? It wouldn't be to host a particular project, but more like a storage area for everything that isn't in a big pro...
I'm looking for a secure alternative to doing something like this, wget --mirror --preserve-permissions --directory-prefix=/hdd2/website-backups --exclude-directories=special,stats --ftp-user=user --ftp-password=pass ftp://ftp.domain.com It's executed via cron. The "--mirror" switch in that is important to me. ...