backup

Auto backup of a folder over a network?

How to automatic backup a folder or multiple network folder to another computer. We try always sync. can any other software is better? please suggest. ...

Mercurial repository backup when hidden files can not be backupped

Our company policy is not to back up hidden folders. Is it possible to change the .hg folder name to something visible? ...

Amazon EC2 to S3 transfer

I wanted to backup my EC2 instance to S3. I downloaded EC2 tools from: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=351. I set up environment variables to: EC2_HOME=<EC2 tools directory> EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=<path to private key generated after I created new X.509 certificate> EC2_CERT=<path to certificate I created ...

how to use exp command to export Oracle DB with files in different disk location

Hello, we get problem, while trying to export Oracle DB. OS: CentOS ~ 5.2 DB: Oracle 10g. Exp command exports db files only in location: /home/oracle/OraHome_1/oradata/master/xxx.dbf , but tool can't export files in different location (we know about this files after getting trace) like this: '/disk1/dblog06.dbf', '/home/di...

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...

Remote backup of MySQL database

Our Java server application logs data to a SQL database, which may or may not be on the same machine. Currently we use MS SQL Server, and we're now porting to MySQL. A user configures database backup parameters on our app server, e.g. time of day to run a backup, and the app server executes SQL Server's BACKUP DATABASE command at the app...

SQL Server 2005 failed backup effect on transaction logs

I have an SQL Server 2005 instance whose full backup (.BAK) failed due to low disk space. However half hourly transaction log backups continue (.TRN). Assuming I have an older full backup, could these continuing transaction logs be used to restore the database? i.e. do the transaction log backups only run from the last successful back...

Backup Sql Express

I would like to be able to run an on demand backup of a .Net MVC app's SQL Express 2008 database to eg a flash stick plugged into the machine running the app. I tried QuickstemDataContext db = new QuickstemDataContext(); string quickstem_path = Path.Combine(save_path, "quickstem.backup"); db.ExecuteCommand(string.Format("BACKUP DATA...

What's the best way of backing up a rails app data?

I need to make a backup system for my rails app but this has to be a little special: It doesn't have to back up all the database info and files in a single file or folder but it has to back up the database info and attachment files per user. I mean, every one of this backups should be able to regenerate all the information and files for ...

RSync backup of Subversion repository with Rsyncrypto

The Situation I have a pretty large Subversion repository that I am trying to backup efficiently. The repository size is about 6 GB and growing. Some large commits are around 500 to 1GB in size. I am trying to backup this repository to an off-site location, through an Internet up-link. Explaining the sheer size of it To whomever i...

Selective tables/objects Oracle Backup

I need to automate a selective table / user object backup I currently am doing via PL / SQL Developer. The way I currently do it is via Tools/Export Tables and Tools/Export User Objects, manually select tables / objects, then set the options, choose destination and export. I do this from a windows laptop and the database is located in a...

How to create a backup of a single table in a postgres database?

Is there a way to create a backup of a single table within a database using postgres? And how? Does this also work with the pg_dump command? ...

Scheduling jobs on windows

Hi all, What is the best way of scheduling simple batch jobs on windows? My current need is to dump some SVN repositories each night and FTP the dumps to our external FTP side and then e-mail one or more people that the backup has completed/failed. This sounds like the sort of thing I would usually do in a unix script + cron. Is that...

Validate Oracle dmp

Hi! I have a Oracle backup done with EXP utility. How can I validate it? Is there any command/tool to validate the backup archive? Thank you! ...

Any online data storage services which provide a C# api?

Hi, Is there an online backup service (like Dropbox), which supports a C# or JAVA API? I want to use this as part of a build process to host my code offsite. Thanks ...

MySQL - how to backup database to a different server?

Hi, I have 2 databases with MyISAM tables which are updated once a week. They are quite big in size (one DB is 2GB and the other is 6GB). I currently back them up once a week with mysqldump and keep the last 2 weeks' worth of .sql dumps on the same server where the DBs are running. I would like, however, to be able to dump the backups ...

Model for versioned backups on MS Windows

Hi All, I've been thinking about a model for saving snapshots of a windows filesystem. Obviously you only want to backup new files or files that have changed - for stuff that hasn't changed you don't want to make another copy. rshapshot http://www.rsnapshot.org/ (for linux) accomplishes this by creating a new snapshot directory for each...

Shortest way to restore SQL Server database

I have to restore various SQL server databases several times a day (for development purposes). In SSMS interface it takes forever and it is even longer to type RESTORE DATABASE command with all it's paths. Ideally I would like to double-click a BAK file right in Windows Explorer and run something to restore it. Any way to achieve this...

Backup all MySQL databases that a mysql user has access to

Hi, I need to backup all MySQL databases available to a partiular user and store them *databasename_date.sql* Is there any way to use mysqldump to dump all databases instead of telling it each database name it needs to backup? Thanks ...

including the .git folder when running git archive

I want to use git archive to make backups of my repository, but the backups created do not contain the .git folder. Is there an option to pass in to force it to include the .git folder? I mean it includes gitignore, etc anyway...Thanks. ...