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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mariabackup --prepare keeps backup state at "log-applied", not "full-prepared"
I'm performing a full backup on a MariaDB 10.6.8 instance on linux and encountering an issue where the --prepare step finishes successfully but fails to transition the backup state to full-prepared. ...
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mariadb-backup hanging / SET GLOBAL innodb_log_checkpoint_now=ON
I've started using mariadb-backup instead of regular mariadb-dump for my backups and they've been working well for months. Then, I've made some changes resulting in more frequent inserts and updates, ...
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Fast server restore through virtualization/container OS on single dedicated machine? [disaster recovery plan]
my base question: Is it wise to run a single server inside a VM for fast restoring it on new/replaced hardware or are there some major drawbacks like performance/scalability/security penalties like an ...
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How to backup local system to a remote machine via ssh?
How do I use rsnapshot to backup my local system to a network machine to which I can ssh via ssh me@backupmachine? I edited /etc/rsnapshot.conf but no luck: I tried to set snapshot_root me@...
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GCP scheduled database backup failed but resolved automatically on next day
On Google Cloud Platform (GCP), a scheduled database backup was failed with status {code: 13, message: INTERNAL_ERROR} and status {code: 13, message: BACKEND_ERROR}. But it resolved automatically next ...
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Sector-by-Sector Backups on RAW Partitions with Active D3 Databases
I’d like to gather insights on a technical scenario involving Acronis sector-by-sector backups on RAW partitions that host active databases like D3 (which operates directly on block devices). While ...
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AWS Datasync S3 to Google Cloud Storage: Full PutObjectFailed errors
Hope you are doing great. We have a daily datasync job which is orchestrated using Lambdas and AWS API. The source locations are AWS S3 buckets and the target locations are GCP cloud storage buckets. ...
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Is it possible to backup files with Veeam to a Synology WORM folder, but have the .vbm in a different location?
For ransomware protection, I want to use a WORM drive on my synology NAS as the primary Backup repository, which will automatically lock files 2 hours after they are last changed. In a backup copy job,...
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MariaDB: Correct way to backup replica servers
We're running a large MariaDB Cluster with MaxScale 24. The Cluster consists of one primary server and two replica servers. The data stored is ~240 GB. We use borgmatic to dump the databases each hour....
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Are live virtual machine snapshot backups capable of not corrupting databases?
Are live virtual machine backups capable of not corrupting complex databases such as MySQL? Is the memory map included in virtual machine backups, so that ephemeral data such as disk caches and ...
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Accessing a VHD to restore files via SMB
We create hourly backups of Windows servers and the backups disks are accessible as VHDs. If I need to restore a VM I can: a) shutdown the production VM b) spin up a new VM from the backup VHD. If I ...
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How to Fully Clone Two Ubuntu 22.04.5 Servers to Another Using rsync Without Conflicts?
I have an Ubuntu 22.04.5 server (Server A) that I want to fully clone to another server (Server B) in such a way that Server B becomes an exact replica of Server A (system files, configurations, data, ...
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Best strategy to keep backup mirrored on 3 different hard drives on Linux: rsync? mergerfs? something else?
Let's says I have a server and 3 different hard drives. I want to know what are the pros and cons of different backup strategies. Here are the requirements: I want that a new file is being ...
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Connecting a Backup-Server to a Tape Library using Fibre Channel without a Switch and across Buildings
Our idea is, to have a backup server in building A and a tape library in building B. Building A and B are already connected via OS2 SingleMode. The tape library is only available with a MultiMode FC ...
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ESXi datastore full after snapshot/backup
I have an ESXI Essentials 6.7 U3 host. Two datastores with 1 VM in each. In datastore1 i still have space available in VMFS. In datastore2 my single VM uses all the disk space (Thick). So what ...
