December 2007
Data Recovery Software - File System Utilities
by 5 othersImage creation uses Microsoft's Volume Shadow Services (VSS), allowing you to create safe "hot images" even from drives currently in use. Images are stored in XML files, allowing you to process them with 3rd party tools. Never again be stuck with a usele
October 2007
WordPress Backups « WordPress Codex
Your WordPress database contains every post, every comment and every link you have on your blog. If your database gets erased or corrupted, you stand to lose everything you have written
July 2007
Drive Snapshot - Disk Image Backup for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/X64
Create Disk Image Backups, While Running Windows The Backup process will back up all your data into a single file, containing all data, including system data and registry, for total security, should your computer ever crash. There is no restart (to DOS)
May 2007
Unison File Synchronizer
by 16 othersUnison runs on both Windows and many flavors of Unix (Solaris, Linux, OS X, etc.) systems. Moreover, Unison works across platforms, allowing you to synchronize a Windows laptop with a Unix server, for example.
September 2006
Unix Review > UnixReview's Shell Corner Roundup: Unix Backup Scripts
I periodically back up my root file system to an unused drive by using mirrorcopy (Listing 2), a Korn shell script. Here’s my logic:
Bacula, the Network Backup Tool for Linux, Unix, and Windows
by 6 othersnetwork based backup program
Home - iFolder
by 5 othersiFolder is a solution that allows people to easily share folders of files of any type with other users, whether they use the same or different operating systems. Thus, Linux, Windows and MacIntosh users can all use iFolder and share folders. The iFolder c
MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 8.12 mysqldump — A Database Backup Program
For a faster "mysqldump" innodb tables 1. mysqldump --opt --user=username --password database > filetosaveto.sql 2. open the dump file put this statement at the beginning of the sql dump text file: SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0; 3. mysql --user=usern
README - rsback-0.4.2
rsback makes rotating backups using the common rsync program (http://rsync.samba.org) and some standard file utilities on Unix-based backup hosts. Its purpose is to mirror certain file trees from a remote host or from the local system and to store them as
How To Set Up Database Replication In MySQL | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
by 1 otherThis tutorial describes how to set up database replication in MySQL. MySQL replication allows you to have an exact copy of a database from a master server on another server (slave), and all updates to the database on the master server are immediately repl
Mirror Your Web Site With rsync | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
This tutorial shows how you can mirror your web site from your main web server to a backup server that can take over if the main server fails. We use the tool rsync for this, and we make it run through a cron job that checks every x minutes if there is so
Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Rsync
The rsync utility is a very well-known piece of GPL'd software, written originally by Andrew Tridgell and Paul Mackerras. If you have a common Linux or UNIX variant, then you probably already have it installed; if not, you can download the source code fro
July 2006
Restoration (System Utilities - Backup & Restore)
by 1 otherRestoration recovers files deleted from your system. The software searches your hard drive for sectors containing files marked for deletion and provide a mechanism for recovering the files.iPod Access is the answer. It's the best solution I found for tran
ONLamp.com -- Live Backups of MySQL Using Replication
by 3 othersThere are only a few steps to setting up replication. The first step is to set up a user account to use only for replication. It's best not to use an existing account for security reasons. To do this, enter an SQL statement like the following on the maste
Backup your MySQL databases automatically with AutoMySQLBackup | MDLog:/sysadmin
by 2 othersWith mysqldump anyone can write a small shell script and running it from cron, it will achieve an automatic backup solution. There are many such scripts already available freely and also many commercial solutions also (I assume as I have not tested any re
Welcome to SunGard - Disaster Recovery
With SunGard’s Systems Recovery service, testing and recovering your systems is quick, cost-effective and always reliable. From distributed systems to mainframes to Intel®-based platforms, plus all the equipment and storage capabilities required, we ha
Compact Subversion Backups < Programming Kung Fu
by 4 othersIf you have a large Subversion repository and want to back it up using as few space as possible, use this command (replace /repo with your actual repository path): svnadmin dump --deltas /repo |bzip2 |tee dump.bz2 | md5sum >dump.md5
A simple Linux backup method
by 3 othersThis article describes a simple backup method that I use every day to backup my home Linux systems. It's an easy method that non-technical Linux users can use to backup their important data. We'll discuss the decisions you have to make in order to do a th
May 2006
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