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Windows Home Server backups

I really like the backup mechanism contained in whs. Is there any other products that offer the same type of backup, but that will handle more than the 10 computers allowed by whs? ...

Is there a fundamental difference between backups and version control?

How does version control differ from plain backups? Let's forget about the feature decoration, and concentrate on the soul of version control. Is there a clear line that backups must cross before they can be called a VCS? Or are they, at heart, the same thing with different target markets? If there is a fundamental difference, what is ...

What are your recommended Windows Server 2003 Backup Tools?

What tools do you guys recommend for backing up files and SQL Server databases on Windows 2003? I'm looking for tools to run daily backups of both files and SQL Server databases. Compress them up and stick them on NAS drives. I'm looking for cheap / FREE options if possible. ...

How to restore Git after fatal file system error?

What is the fastest path to restore a git repository after a file system error on the main server? Imagine the central server of your OSS project fails and all commits for two days are lost after restore. How do you get those back? Is it enough just to call "git push" on all clients? Or is there something else I must take into account? ...

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 External Backup

Hi, I would like to save my backups from my SQL 2008 server to another server location. We have 2 servers: Deployment server File Server The problem is that the deployment server doesn't have much space. And we keep 10 days backups of our databases. Therefore we need to store our backups on an external "file server". The problem is ...

Create local backup when editing remote files via netrw in vim

I work with many files remotely using vim and the netrw plugin. I also keep timestamped backups by changing the &backupext (found in the documentation). While working in a remote file (scp://server//folder/file.txt), I noticed that when I save it, a backup isn't even being made. Is there a way I can have a backup automatically made loc...

Sql Server Backup Sizes

Does anyone have real world experience of backup compression in Sql 2008, I'd like to know how it performs compared to Sql 2005 + winrar. Currently when I back up a I get a 14G file. Using rar shrinks it to <400M, a massive saving. Most of the data is similar, being figures from the stock market so I guess that makes it easy to compress....

What's a good way to backup (and maybe synchronize) your development machine?

I make extensive use of source control for anything that relates to a project I'm working on (source, docs etc.) and I've never lost anything that way. However, I have had two or three crashes (spread over the last 4 years) on my development machine that forced me to reinstall my system and reconfigure my apps (eclipse, vim, Firefox, et...

Advice on setting up a server to host source code and other documents...

Hi, today we keep our documents and source code, using subversion, on a server hosted by another company out on the internet. This has worked well so far. However, we have now gotten an office and would like to keep all the documents in-house. Now, are there any general advice for how to set up a system with a NAS-unit running Subversion...

Complete MOSS 2007 Migration

Hi! The situation at the moment is that we have a sharepoint server which started out as a pilot but now actually runs as the production environment. The server on which sharepoint runs is an old machine which does not conforms the standard requirements so I want to move the current environment to the shiny new server. I've red a lot a...

best practice for backing up cvs repository?

Hi, Some of our projects are still on cvs. We currently use tar to backup the repository nightly. Here's the question: best practice for backing up a cvs repository? Context: We're combining a several servers across the country onto one central server. The combined repsitory size is 14gb. (yes this is high, most likely due to lots ...

Backup MySQL users

How do I backup MySQL users and their privileges? Anything like mysqldump? I am looking for something like mysqldump -d -u root -p MyTable > Schema.sql ...

Backup Strategy

I have just joined a company with Server 2003 Small Business Server. The company contains only an handful of staff and needs a backup system. I would like to restore a tape backup (including system state, Exchange server, etc) to a second server. The aim is to have a verified set of backups and be able to swap the servers if necessa...

Backup and Restore MSSQL Server 2005 Database with FULL Diff from C#

Hi, as i said in the Title i wanna backup with full dif and restore it from c# .. Is there any examples for me? ...

What is the best windows backup solution?

After finding this question, What's the best linux backup solution? I'm wanting to know what the best backup solution for windows is? I have a web application which has a decent amount of content and pages that get updated frequently and I am currently backing it up by hand. Preferably, I would like to have it backup to a specified F...

Set up SQL Server 2005 Reporting DB from SQL Server 2000

We recently moved from a simple DB recovery model (with daily full database dumps) on our SQL Server 2000 Standard database to full recovery -- combined with weekly full database backups, daily incremental, and transaction dumps every 10 minutes. Our previous reporting DB instance (SQL Server 2005) was built from the daily backups which...

SQL Server backup/restore v.s. detach/attach

Hello everyone, I have one database which contains the most recent data, and I want to replicate the database content into some other servers. Dues to non-technical reasons, I can not directly use replicate function or sync function to sync to other SQL Server instances. Now, I have two solutions, and I want to learn the pros and cons ...

Does the Full Recovery Model Generate Additional Transaction Logs?

I read some Books Online about recovery/backup, one stupid question, if I use full database backup/full recovery model, for backup operation itself, will it generate any additional transaction log to source database server? Will full recovery operation generate additional transaction log to destination database? ...

Using Amazon's EBS for MySQL hot backup

What are your experiences using Amazons EBS snapshot features for MySql hot backups. I have a database running a batch processing job in ec2. I backup with EBS snapshot. So far the backups looks consistent. But I am afraid they "will stop being consistent as soon as I stop checking" (Uncertainty principle). What are your experiences wi...

Import Dumped SVN Repo into Visual SVN

I have dumped my repository on my old computer to a file with the command. svnadmin dump C:\myrepo/ > mydumpfile Now I decided to use Visual SVN on my new computer as opposed to just a baseline subversion. How do I import my repository into VisualSVN? ...