backup

How to create a snapshot or clone of PHP, MySQL page... Inspiration needed

Hi, We have a web application that creates a dynamic PHP page with all the MySQL stored details a user has entered via a number a forms. So far so good, but we want this information stored some how to be refereed to at a later date, as an administrator can make changes to the data, which reflects on calculations that are worked out fro...

Cognos LAE Backup Automation (Batch File?)

Within Cognos 7.4 security.. one would create an LAE file to export all their users... directions here... http://www.cognos-install.co.uk/articles/backups/access%5Fmanager%5Fexport%5Fto%5Flae.asp Now you'll notice at the bottom "Finally, it is possible to build an automated process for this task, however this is outside of the scope o...

Backing up (and restoring) a Plone instance.

Hello, everyone! I have a Plone installation in my home directory under Linux. ~/Plone. This was made from a default distribution of Plone from its website. So Plone compiled own python and is bundeled with Zope. Please tell me, which files are necessary to backup if I want to: 1) Backup the whole data ever stored in my Plone instanc...

Split up a mysqldump file with multiple databases, by database

Hello, I have a mysqldump file of multiple databases (5). One of the database takes a very long time to load, is there a way to either split the mysqldump file by database, or just tell mysql to load only one of the specified databases? Manish ...

running routine backups from my application

i want to run a routine backup of my database from my java application. i'm actually considering a cron job within quartz to fire the backups at the specified time, but i don't know if thats the proper and most efficient way to do it. are there any other ways i can do it? and is there anything i should look out for?? ...

GIT clone to external drive for backup

Hey, Go easy on me, I'm not much of a command line man... We have GIT set up within our windows network (using msysgit & GitExtensions). We each have our own repositories and we push to a remote 'bare' repository on one of our servers. All good. I'm trying to set up a scheduled job on the server, which will clone a repository from th...

Why is a hot backup size smaller than a cold backup size?

Or is it not true at all.. ...

gae datastore backup

Is it necessary to do backups of gae's datastore? Does anyone have any experience, suggestions, tricks for doing so? ...

Delete backup files older than 7 days

Using osql command, SSQL backup of a database is created. It is saved to Disk. Then renamed to match the date of the day backup was taken. All these files are saved in a single folder all the time. for example: Batch1.bat does the following 1) Created backup.bak 2) renamed to backup 12-13-2009.bak (this is done by the combination of % ~...

(Lightweight) backup strategies for a LAMP application stack?

I'm researching some lightweight tools to backup a LAMP stack. The two most imporatant pieces are the php codebase and the mysql database. I can tar/bz2 the code and a mysqldump and restore it on a new server (if the old one crashes) and this is more or less fine. Anyway, are there more complete solutions to this? e.g. track and...

IProblem with backing up mysql database

When i use this it works fine C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin mysqldump.exe --user=dinesh --password=accounting --host=dinesh -C --routines --default-character-set=utf8 --Opt inventory > C:\\R14122009_12469.Sql But when t pass Path like "C:\Documents and Settings\Wild\Desktop\f re...

Keep a TFS source backup in Visual Source Safe. Possible?

We moved from Visual Source Safe to Team Foundation Server. Can I sync. TFS source control to Visual Source Safe? I would like to keep a backup of Team Foundation Server source control in Visual Source Safe. Just to have a backup server ready in case the Team Foundation Server rot out and we can quickly shift back to Visual Source Safe s...

bulkloader.py --dump without authentication

Is there some way or using the bulkloader.py dump and restore funtionality without authentication? I have tried using: - url: /remote_api script: $PYTHON_LIB/google/appengine/ext/remote_api/handler.py without the login-parameter, but login still seems to be required. I still get [ERROR ] Exception during authentication I strugg...

Backup a database using JPA

I'm working on a database backup engine using JPA. Everything is working fine but I'm having issues figuring this issue. I know is related to how I defined the Entities. First here's a brief on how the system works: Create a Derby database instance in a selected directory Connect to the source database and scrol thru the tables fetchi...

Backup SQL Server database in ASP.NET

Dear guys I want to backup a SQL Server database with C#. I have written a stored procedure which backup the database: CREATE PROCEDURE WINC_BackupDatabase AS BEGIN -- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from -- interfering with SELECT statements. SET NOCOUNT ON; -- Insert statements for procedure here ...

Parsing a blackberry .ipd file

I recently lost my Blackberry. When I discovered it was gone very shortly afterwards and called it, the sim card had already been removed. I ain't seeing that Blackberry again. Ok. I am out $300, but at least my data is backed up. I had an older working Blackberry fortunately and I got a new sim card and proceeded to restore my data usi...

Backup and Restore Filtered Data from SQL Server database using C#

Hello Friends, I wish to implement backup and restore feature for my application. Here I want to backup filtered data(not the whole database). Like Select * from Sales where CompanyId=1 For all tables in database and write these data to a file.bak file, later which I can be used for restore purpose. My Question here is Is...

LVM snapshot of mounted filesystem

I'd like to make a snapshot of a live filesystem in Linux, preferably using LVM. I'd like not to unmount it because I've got lots of files opened (my most common scenario is that I've got a busy desktop with lots of programs). I understand that because of kernel buffers and general filesystem activity, data on disk might be in some more...

What does the switch -r mean for Firebird gbak tool?

When I run: gbak -r what will it do? ...

SQL Server backup issue

Hello everyone, I am using SQL Server 2008 Enterprise on Windows Server 2008 x64. I want to run daily job at mid-night every day to make full backup of database. Any reference document to follow for a newbie of this topic? thanks in advance, George ...