Nov 10 2011
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 [...]
Aug 12 2010
I use this script to keep a full local backup of my tftp directory on Linux. It keeps the archive only if some of the files were modified. It can be used for any directory indeed. There are the files produced: [root@tftp_server backup]$ ls -l -rw-r—– 1 tftp tftp 124200 May 1 04:04 tftp-20100501.tgz [...]
Jul 26 2008
It is generally good practice to respect the two following points when backing up databases. The backup has to be: consistent fast Consistency is easily achieved putting a read lock on all tables beforehands. However, this isn’t always applied, and WILL definately lead to a database integrity problem at some stage. Once a lock has [...]