Questions tagged [backup]
Making copies of data so that the copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event, or for historical retention.
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Changing a Backup using xcopy to one using robocopy in Win 11
In a Windows 11 Pro and Office 21 Pro environment on a Lenovo 13th Gen, Intel i7-55U, 16GB, 64 bit, Notebook, are there any pitfalls in an incremental copy of Dir/files from external drive F to ...
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Connection error whe configuring postgresql_basebackup in nxs-backup
when configuring postgresql_basebackup in nxs-backup I encountered the following:
PSQL connect error: pq: database "repluser" does not exist
Tried to edit pg_hba.conf, but it still doesn't ...
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Excluding directory from zip cli command [duplicate]
NOTE TO MODERATOR:
While it is true that there is a question out there that has several conflicting answers to this very question, as I have pointed out in a comment to that question, none of those ...
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How to script a physical to VHDX backup for use as a Hyper-V VM
I want to script a backup of my computer into a VHDX file for use as a VM in case something crashes irreparably and I cannot recover the windows installation. My computer has 2 disks, a typical "...
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Populate OneDrive folder from local backup without affecting remote files
I have quite a few gigabytes of files stored on OneDrive, but I also keep a local backup copy everything. Recently, I had to reformat my laptop's hard drive. Currently, I have re-installed Windows 10 ...
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How to call disk2vhd to create a VHDX for use as a VM and exlcude the D: drive
The documentation on https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd is minimal, and doesn't seem to cover the use case of how to specify multiple volumes for backup, assuming that ...
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Backup VPN connection from Teltonika router
I have a problem with setting up a backup VPN connection from my Teltonika router.
Some background first, I have two servers on different locations. One of them is my main server and the other one is ...
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If SSD begins degrading will that affect online backup?
I have all of my files on an external SSD and am also backing up the entire drive to an online service.
What will happen when my SSD starts degrading eventually? Will that result in corrupted files, ...
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Can't boot VHD image after resizing in VirtualBox
I have a pretty big mess to sort.
I have a 512GB VHD which I use to store private backups. It started running out of storage so I looked online how to make it bigger (as I assumed VHD's probably just ...
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Unpack tar made with tape-length option gives Illegal byte sequence
I had some big MP4 files that I wanted to backup to Amazon S3. Uploading them in the web interface gave me some timeouts so I created 4GB tar files using:
tar -cv --tape-length=4G --file=backup-{000.....
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Using rsync with an oldie Netgear NAS (ReadyNAS Pro BE, RAIDiator 4.2.31)
I have an old NetgearNAS (ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition, RAIDiator 4.2.31 firmware) that I set up years ago to house (among other things) my music library - which is quite large. The other "...
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Write speed to USB drops as disk active time increases
I would like to know the correlation between disk active time and disk transfer rate, and what the problem might be.
Using a WD Elements 3TB drive to back up a Surface Book 2 (about 650GB of 1TB drive)...
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Google Drive Desktop wasn't moving file, it's moved the file to trash then reuploading when moved by robocopy
So, I'm applying this 3-2-1 backup rule.
Folder form ssd-sync is synced to vhd-sync through robocopy, here is the argument command.
robocopy D:\ssd-sync E:\vhd-sync /LOG+:D:\ssd-sync\robocopy-...
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exFAT for mechanical spinning external HD as cross-platform backup?
We have a mix of Linux (Debian) and MacOS laptops. I have a 4 TB external USB mechanical rotary drive I'd like to use for backups. I'd not want to partition the drive with different file systems for ...
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Correct way of backing up emails from server (preferably with Thunderbird)
I have 3 work email accounts that will soon close. I currently access those accounts only with Thunderbird. I want to create a copy of all emails from the server into my local PC, this includes ...
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