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Create And Restore Partition Images With Partimage

Fri, 18 May 2012 16:17:30 +0200

Create And Restore Partition Images With Partimage

Backups are usually made in one of two ways - either file-based which means that single files are backed up, often via synchronization and on an external disk, or image-based which means that a whole partition is stuffed into an image file that can be restored on the partition, containing everything there was on it. This tutorial covers image-based backups using Partimage from a live desktop environment.

How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Debian Squeeze

Wed, 09 May 2012 17:49:37 +0200

How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Debian Squeeze

mylvmbackup is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM's snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a read lock on all tables and flushes all server caches to disk, creates a snapshot of the volume containing the MySQL data directory, and unlocks the tables again. This article shows how to use it on a Debian Squeeze server.

Back Up Files With Déjà Dup (Linux Mint 11)

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:37:50 +0100

Back Up Files With Déjà Dup (Linux Mint 11)

This article is about how to back up your files with the file based back-up program duplicity's Graphical User Interface déjà dup. I have tried the tutorial on the Linux Mint 11 distribution, but it should work fine with all other Ubuntu based distributions.

Installing rsnapshot On CentOS

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:28:50 +0200

Installing rsnapshot On CentOS

Working for an IT Support company I needed a solution for automatically backing up a bunch of Linux servers, this guide will walk you through setting up rsnapshot on CentOS for automated rsync & ssh binary diff backups.

MySQL Backup: Table By Table Backup With Auto Rotation, For Easy Restoration Of Partial/Full Database

Mon, 30 May 2011 18:50:18 +0200

MySQL Backup: Table By Table Backup With Auto Rotation, For Easy Restoration Of Partial/Full Database

Here is a MySQL backup script which can take table by table backups (individual backup files of each table of each database) in a compressed format. It also provides an automatic rotation of old backup files. The backup script handles innodb and myisam tables separately.

Extending Perfect Server - Debian Squeeze [ISPConfig 3]

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:12:36 +0100

Extending Perfect Server - Debian Squeeze [ISPConfig 3]

The following tutorial will extend the "Perfect Server.... " for ISPConfig 3 with BIND & Courier installed in Debian Squeeze. It explains how to change default ports (ssh, ispconfig, webmin), how to install some useful applications (webmin, roundcube, atop, htop, multitail, tiger etc), how to update awstats periodically (more than once a day) or whenever you want, how to create clients' data backups (periodically) accessible under their folder and finally it explains how to tweak your system for performance (mysqltuner, tuning-primer) or security (custom firewall rules, (D)Dos Deflate, fail2ban modified).

Ghosting The Machine

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:07:45 +0200

Ghosting The Machine

This is a short but potentially extremely handy guide to ghosting one Linux box to another (or simply making a full backup of a desktop/server). You might have a small office where you customise one desktop just how you like it and need to roll this out to N other PC's or simply want a backup of a server or desktop to another machine or even to an image file. The main tool here is netcat which is extremely powerful and has a multitude of other great uses that won't be covered here.

Disk Backup With Amanda On Debian Lenny

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:42:43 +0200

Disk Backup With Amanda On Debian Lenny

Amanda is an open source client/server solution to back up filesystems. Backups are triggered by the backup server, backup definitions are located on the servers but exclusion lists are located on the client.

Creating Encrypted FTP Backups With duplicity And ftplicity On Debian Lenny

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:02:39 +0200

Creating Encrypted FTP Backups With duplicity And ftplicity On Debian Lenny

When you rent a dedicated server nowadays, almost all providers give you FTP backup space for your server on one of the provider's backup systems. This tutorial shows how you can use duplicity and ftplicity to create encrypted (so that nobody with access to the backup server can read sensitive data in your backups) backups on the provider's remote backup server over FTP. ftplicity is a duplicity wrapper script that allows us to use duplicity without interaction (i.e., you do not have to type in any passwords).

Backing Up With rsync And Managing Previous Versions/History

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:21:07 +0200

Backing Up With rsync And Managing Previous Versions/History

This howto describes a method doing backups with rsync. This is done before, but this howto is also about managing previous versions, by copying to be changed and deleted items first to a history/version tree.

Ubuntu Server 9.04 Bacula Bweb GUI

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:31:10 +0200

Ubuntu Server 9.04 Bacula Bweb GUI

Bweb is a perl based web program that provides a tool to do basic operations and get statistics. It obtains its information from your catalog database and the bconsole program.

Creating MySQL Backups With AutoMySQLBackup On Ubuntu 9.10

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:05:23 +0100

Creating MySQL Backups With AutoMySQLBackup On Ubuntu 9.10

AutoMySQLBackup is a shell script that lets you take daily, weekly and monthly backups of your MySQL databases using mysqldump. It can back up multiple databases, compress the backups, back up remote databases, and email the logs. This tutorial explains how to install and use it on an Ubuntu 9.10 server.

NTFS Disk Recovery

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:04:46 +0100

NTFS Disk Recovery

Mary, the daughter of a friend is in college: her Windows XP laptop constantly reboots and, we suspect, has a bad hard drive. The system will boot a live CD (Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Desktop), and data on the hard drive can be read. During boot, the live CD identifies disk errors and tries unsuccessfully to repair them.

How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Debian Lenny

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:48:35 +0100

How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Debian Lenny

Automated Backups Using dhcpd On Ubuntu

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:07:34 +0200

Automated Backups Using dhcpd On Ubuntu

This tutorial shows how to set up automated backups of Linux hosts through dhcp using Ubuntu.