I'm using git as a backup tool and 'roaming profile' for my $HOME directory between laptop and desktop. My problem is that under my $HOME I have a Development directory with multiple git projects I'm working on. Git will not allow me to add the subdirectories .git folders. So to commit to these projects I have to push the changes into m...
I am trying to figure out how SQL Server DBAs are doing their backups and verify in 2005. I use the Idera's free stored procs (which is no longer available to download btw) to backup and verify and have gotten around 65% compression. If there any other free alternative? Thanks in advance, -Subhash ...
Hi folks, i have a snapshot of the database that I took before i did some data migration. The data migration messed up, so I want to retrieve the data from the snapshot to migrate over to the production database. Question: How do i access the snapshot, and how do i retrieve the available data? Thanks! ...
I'm trying to backup a folder containing several folders and files to a remote location (will be uploading zipped files). Is there any existing scripts that may help me, which checks if the files have been modified after the date of the last backup, and only backs up files created / modified after that? The current size of the data is a...
Hi all. We are an online business. Currently we are using DVD's for our backups. The problem is we are running out of space. I guess there are two alternatives here: _ external hard disk drives _ tape drives The important point is we want to carry the backup with us from the office to home every day. Which alternative do you think ...
i changed computers and OSes here a few times and had a linux backup machine running at some point. I now have 2 disks, which contains backups of each other, where some file trees are nested in each other but might be identical. what is the best way to figure out which trees are identical, so I can get rid of some duplicate trees and cl...
Hi, I recently did a backup of an MySQL ARCHIVE (engine) table and I am trying to restore this table on another server. Basically, the backup process was to copy the .ARZ and .frm and move the files on the new server. Then I chmoded the files (mysql:mysql) and set the permissions (now it appears 777 since I wanted to make sure it was no...
Just something that will save changes automatically, while i'm editing say in gedit, or notepad plus plus, or even windows text editor, etc. I can't seem to find exactly what i'm looking and SVN, BZR, and GIT are too complicated. One should be able to start a new project, start writing code, and that's it! So... I'm going to create a w...
All sources are on windows OS, and destination backup is on Unix system (we are using Samba). My source repository is similar to : -Repository --Folder1 ---Files --Folder2 ---Files etc... I would like to get a destination similar to : -Repository --Folder1.zip --Folder2.zip etc... After first backup, I only backup files that h...