backup

Full server restore from backup

Hey, i have made a full backup of my entire site using cpanel and i now want to use this backup to restore everything back to the state when i made the full backup. I know i have to go to WHM > Restore a Full Backup/cpmove file then enter the username for the account i want to restore and that the backup file should be in /home, /home2,...

Script or util to remove old backups

I'm creating a backup strategy for a sharepoint server I'm setting up. Have got a backup running daily. In the long term I'd like to keep: * Daily backups for the last week. * Weekly backups for the last month. * Monthly backups for the last year. * Yearly backups. If I was writing in bash/cygwin I would find it fairly easy to write...

A tool to create full SQL-Sever database backup on a shared hosting?

I have a website on a shared hosting. I want to do a full backup of a Sql-Server 2005 database. I can connect to db using server management studio but I cannot do full backup because I cannot reach any filesystem (due to hosting limitations). Can anybody help? ...

How to reliably restore MySQL blobs

I have been backing up a MySQL database for several years with the command: mysqldump myDatabaseName -u root > myBackupFile.sql The backups have appeared to work fine... I then wanted to restore one of the backups to a different named database so I did: mysql myNewDatabaseName -u root < myBackupFile.sql I got some errors about logfi...

Create backups of eclipse projects

Hi everyone, Is it possible to backup an entire eclipse PDT project (or parts of it), so that it can be restored to that state later? Ideally this would only save changes from the last backup to save space. If it makes any difference I have Mylyn installed (Maybe you could backup the current task context?) and am using CodeIgniter. Th...

how to set up daily php functions or mysql queries

Hi. I have wondered for a while now how to this. If I want to take weekly backups of all or many of my tables that stores values that changes every day in mysql. I also want to execute daily functions with php that update update values in my db. I was thinking of making a stock investing function. Where I have fictional data as the val...

Remote backup solution for openSuSE

I'm looking for some backup solution. My request is pretty simple: Source - FTP credentials (ftp://user:[email protected]/dir1/dir2) Destination on local HDD (/var/backup/server-tld) Possibility of packing to archive (tar.gz/zip) Plan this "script" as a cron job with defined period (e.g. once a day) I know, that all this can be done us...

How to create only one backup file for a SQL Server database

I've created a Back Up Database Task for a few selected databases in my server. What I want to do is to have only one backup file for any database. The new one could overwrite the old one or create a new one and delete the old one, doesn't matter. I've checked Backup set will expire: 2 days but but evidently this doesn't do what I though...

What is the best way to backup a django project?

I maintain a couple of low-traffic sites that have reasonable user uploaded media files and semi big databases. My goal is to backup all the data that is not under version control in a central place. My current approach At the moment I use a nightly cronjob that uses dumpdata to dump all the DB content into JSON files in a subdirectory...

Rsync how to include directories but not files ?

Hi, I have a directory structure and files like this data/ data/a.txt data/folder/ data/folder/b.txt data/folder/folder/ data/folder/folder/c.txt ... a.txt, b.txt, and c.txt are large files that are computer-generated and renewed frequently. They should NOT be backuped -- but I want to backup the directory structure : data/ data/fol...

Backup / Mirror Github repositories

Hi all, I'd like to periodically create a backup of my github repositories. Is there a quick way to pull all of them without knowing what the entire list is? Walter ...

Downloading a full remote directory via FTP from the command line

Hey guys, I'm looking to put together a simple scriptable backup utility to grab all the files on a remote ftp server and drop them in a backup directory on my machine. I already tried the built-in Windows "ftp" command and Filezilla's limited command line options, but neither seems to be able to grab the whole document tree in one go. ...

Backing up Database AND replication configuration?

In SQLServer 2005, is it possible to migrate a database from a workstation to another and also take the Replication configuration with it? I mean, besides creating scripts. ...

Value in 'svnadmin verify' cron job? (or is ''svnadmin hotcopy' enough)

Assuming a nightly 'svnadmin hotcopy' is run and validated, is there any value in periodically running one or both of?: svnadmin verify REPO-PATHNAME 2>&1 |egrep -v '^\* Verified revision [0-9]+\.' svnadmin dump -q --deltas REPO-PATHNAME >/dev/null (Any output from above is probably abnormal.) Does a successful 'svnadmin hotcopy' in...

How to backup a Solr database to a file?

I have very little information about this, and there isn't much on the web. Does any experienced know how to dump the solr database (index) to a file. I have a Virtual Private Server, where all files are backed up automatically by the provider of the VPS at midnight every day. So, I need to export the Solr index to a file. And IF some...

How to compare 2 volumes and list modified files?

I have 2 hard-disk volumes(one is a backup image of the other), I want to compare the volumes and list all the modified files, so that the user can select the ones he/she wants to roll-back. Currently I'm recursing through the new volume and comparing each file's time-stamps to the old volume's files (if they are int the old volume). Ob...

Can anyone recommend a free Opensource Host your own online backup a la carbonite.

Are there any free opensource apps similar to carbonite/online automated backup systems you can host yourself? ...

Backup MySql database with PHP

I have a pretty large db in MySql, and I need to take backups of it every day or so. I need to be able to take backups from any computer, so therefore I thought about making a php script to do this and put this php script online (offcourse with password protection and authorization etc so that only I can access it). I wonder however, h...

How to execute BACKUP DATABASE query from grails ?

I want to backup HSQLDB from grails, Here's the command BACKUP DATABASE TO 'C:/BACKUP/' BLOCKING But how to do this in GORM where all seems Entity related even executeQuery ? Thank you for sharing your experience :) ...

SSAS database backup fails with the error 3239837698

When I run XMLA query to backup SSAS database <Batch xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine" Transaction="false" > <Backup xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine"&gt; <Object> <DatabaseID>MyDB</DatabaseID> </Object> <File>D:\SSAS\OLAP\Backup\MyDB.abf</File> <All...