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Dec 15 2012

Windows Remote Server/NAS Sync and Backup Files

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robocopy is a tool that copies files but more interestingly, it lets you synchronize data from a server (or a NAS) to another Windows server. It is provided with the Windows 2003 Server resource kit tools or natively in Windows 2008 Server and above.Synchronization takes little bandwidth with Robocopy and can be a good way […]

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Nov 10 2011

Delete Backup Exec B2D Files

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Here’s a script that deletes all the Backup Exec B2D files part of a media set. Stick the following script into a .bat file and edit the first 3 settings Mediaset, B2Dfolder and BEPath.You can run it straight. I consider it is good practice to do for the following reasons:– You can of course set the […]

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Aug 12 2010

Backup a Directory when Modified

Published by under Backup,Linux

I use this script to keep a full local backup of my tftp directory hosted on Linux. It keeps the archive only if some of the files were modified. It lets me restore in a quicker way than using a heavy backup software, which can be used beside to secure the backup elsewhere.The shell script […]

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Jul 26 2008

Mysql Ultra-Fast Backup with LVM

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It is generally good practice to respect the two following rules when backing up databases. The backup has to be: consistent fast Consistency is easily achieved putting a read lock on all tables beforehand. However, this isn’t always applied, and WILL definitely lead to a database integrity problem when restoring.Once a lock has been set […]

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