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1. Solaris
I have backed up the contents of my Solaris 10 machine in its entirety, and I'm trying to figure out if I can somehow use this archive to restore my old system just as it was on a new machine. Assuming I have all files from my old machine backed up, is this possible?
What I've been trying to do... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: unblockable
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello, I need to restore some yesterday emails from backup within a 5 hours timeframe
this is a openvz container, backup is made by rsync files to another partition in the same server
I have tried to do this
#!/bin/sh
cd /vz/backup/414/home/smartftp/mail/domain1.com/
for dir in new... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: cuantica
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I'm using a script (automysqlbackup) to dump mysql db's to .sql file followed by taking one full backup of the .sql file and the differential backups of the newer sql file every day using the tool diff.
Now the backup destination folder contains files like,
I would like to how do i restore... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: csengineer
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hello
I take a backup using the following command on Solaris 9
tar cvf /dev/rmt/0n data
the data volume contains a number of files say a, b, c , d ... etc
Now I want to restore only one file (eg b) from the data volume.
When I issue the command
tar xvf /dev/rmt/0n data/b... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rahmantanko
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5. AIX
hi all
im making a script for backing up a specific filesystem that is an output of our DB13(SAP) into tape..which is around 40g +
which is suitable tar or backup command
i heard tar has limitations ..i heard it can only backup upto 2 gig??? is this ryt?
and ill put this into cron.
... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: redmanshogun
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6. AIX
Hello,
Last night I applied a DB2 fix pack which is now causing problems with the application that uses db2. Prior to applying the fix pack I did a mksysb(rootvg) which includes the file system that has db2 installed on it. If I do a restore from this will it restore the db2 version back to... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: jyoung
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7. Solaris
Hello Everybody
I have two servers, name A & B. I need to take a backup of one directory(/girish) on serverA. But my tape drive is in serverB through tar command. But when I run the following command it doesn't take the backup. Could any one correct my command to take a backup
tar cvf - ... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: girish.batra
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8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Please help me in resolving the issue.
I have taken backup using the below command
$ tar cvf - . |compress -> /opt/globusback2/needed_backups/apglsg.tar.Z
I tried to restore the backup using the below command.
$ zcat /opt/globusback2/needed_backups/apglsg.tar.Z | tar -xvf -
... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: amirthraj_12
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9. Solaris
Is it possible to restore a TAR'ed file off of a tape to a location other than the original location? If so, how?
(The MAN pages give examples of how to restore only to the originating location.)
Thanks!! (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: FredSmith
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10. OS X (Apple)
So I had some bad RAM in my server. Of course I didn't know it at the time. And it kept making the 10.3.5 updater crash. And that last crash did it. My drive was messed up. So I had to reformat and reinstall. Luckily I had a whole slew of fresh backups. But I'm really hung up on the mail. I backed... (0 Replies)
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