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Best Option to Backup A Terabytes worth of Data

What is the best and cost effective way to backup a 1 to 1.5 Terabytes worth of data? What I am backing up is these scanned in images that are just sitting in a directory but are not backed up. Thanks.

View Answer   |  Jun 16 2008  9:58 PM GMT
Storage, Storage management, Data storage
asked by Asif78

  20 pts.

Backup and Recovery....Is it possible to perform encrypted saves? Using BRMS or whatever...

Is it possible to perform encrypted saves? Using BRMS or whatever....

View Answer   |  Jun 16 2008  6:37 PM GMT
Backup & recovery, Backup, BRMS
asked by Znason

  65 pts.

Restoring offline backup

How to apply offline redo log files to an off line backup which earlier to the offline redo log backup and recover system at less loss of data

View Answer   |  Jun 15 2008  10:01 AM GMT
Backup & recovery, Backup, Oracle backup
asked by 173831

  10 pts.

BRMS - No media available

Hi, We use BRMS to backup to a tape library. This has worked fine for years without any problem. Recently we've started getting saves failing with a no media available message. According to BRMS there are plenty of tapes with this media type which are initialized and/or expired. Does anybody...

View Answer   |  May 28 2008  8:40 AM GMT
AS/400, iSeries, Tape Backups
asked by Gilly400

  23625 pts.

How to restore a SQL Server 2000 database using a backup

Could you please educate us on how to restore a database using a backup? We have a Mambilla PR software(.net application)and SQL Server 2000 backend. We run the backup before any major change to the database.

View Answer   |  May 21 2008  1:52 PM GMT
SQL Server 2000, Backup & recovery, Backup
asked by SQL Server Ask the Experts

  2445 pts.

bright store arcserve exchange 2003 backup

can i restore a full exchange database from a ducument levelbackup and how ? i have ver 11.5 r

asked by Rami

  220 pts.

Restore Sharepoint

We have just upgraded our server to 2008, before the upgrade I made a backup of our Sharepoint site with Sharepoint Designer. After we completed our upgrade and re-installed Sharepoint Services 3.0 (after alot of trial and error) we tried to restore the backup. Every time we run the restore it...

View Answer   |  May 16 2008  1:48 PM GMT
Backup & recovery, SharePoint, SharePoint backup
asked by Dav3

  5 pts.

Before a technician upgrades a server, it is necessary to back up all data. Which type of backup is necessary to ensure that all data is backed up?

Before a technician upgrades a server, it is necessary to back up all data. Which type of backup is necessary to ensure that all data is backed up?

View Answer   |  May 15 2008  8:28 AM GMT
Backup & recovery, Backup
asked by Unuruu

  10 pts.

What should I do when I meet the message "Backed up volume disk quota" while Disaster recovery Backup takes place?

I have backed up the system with "BrightStor ARCserve Backup r 11.1", and it took more time than I estimated. then I checked the log of Backup, and I found the message "Backed up volume disk quota." I think this is the reason it took a lot of time. Then I wanna know if there is the way that...

View Answer   |  May 13 2008  1:56 PM GMT
Disaster Recovery, Backup & recovery, Backup
asked by Ben1016

  15 pts.

Snort Log Retention

Is there any reason I should keep year-old snort log files? Only techs access the system and I need the space.

View Answer   |  Apr 14 2008  3:46 PM GMT
Snort/Sourcefire, Backup & recovery, Data Center
asked by Chunter

  110 pts.

Restoring a SQL Server 2005 database from a public share backup

Is it true that even in SQL Server 2005 you cannot restore a database from a backup on a public share, but ONLY from a local storage (DASD)drive?

View Answer   |  Apr 10 2008  2:35 AM GMT
SQL Server, Disk storage, Backup & recovery
asked by SQL Server Ask the Experts

  2445 pts.

Error when restoring a .bak file in SQL Server

I’m having a problem restoring a .bak file in SQL Server. The .bak file is fine and good. But when I restore it, I get an error. It says " TITLE: Restore failed for Server <servername>(Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo) ------------------------------ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: ...

View Answer   |  Apr 10 2008  2:12 AM GMT
Backup & recovery, SQL Server backup, SQL Server errors
asked by SQL Server Ask the Experts

  2445 pts.

Repairing Disk Geometry Errors

I have a WD 300 GB drive that I was using as a portable drive in a USB2 enclosure. The drive worked fine for almost 3 years. All of a sudden I'm having trouble accessing certain folders on the drive. I thought the drive was failing and got my photos (the most important) off of the drive. Next I...

View Answer   |  Mar 22 2008  3:55 AM GMT
Hard drives, Backup & recovery, Hard drive repair
asked by Xwell

  5 pts.

Run NTBackup in the background?

Is it possible to run NTBackup (scheduled) invisibly, or in the background? Currently I have NTBackup set to schedule during the day at (for example) 1:00PM to back up users' Outlook data files, but when it does so the NTBackup application actually launches. I am forced to do it this way, but I...

asked by Lonewolfbw

  265 pts.

Backup Exec 11d ...BE server will not start

My catalog files were taking up too much space on the hard drive. So, I changed the location of the catalog directory and pointed it to my D: drive. I restarted the services and now BE server will not start. BE Device and Media Svc. and BE Remote agent will start. I looked all over and found that...

View Answer   |  Mar 17 2008  4:54 PM GMT
Backup & recovery, Symantec Backup Exec 11D, Backup Exec
asked by Darthur

  50 pts.

restoring deleted data and emails and tracking ip addresses in north america / england

Who are the best individuals to technically assist in restoring user level deleted data from Windows OS / Mac OS X and to track ip addresses ? contact-- digitall1@aol.com

View Answer   |  Mar 16 2008  4:29 AM GMT
Backup & recovery, Restore
asked by Digitall1

  30 pts.

Daily full backups successfull but..

Hello all, The Byte Count of Daily full backup of two servers (2003 domain and exchange 2003, both standard version)has been shown between 99 to 101 GB except two nights ago it showed 74 GB and then the start showing 99 to 100 GB again(Byte Count). All these jobs were successfull and verified, I...

View Answer   |  Mar 7 2008  5:39 PM GMT
Storage, Exchange 2003, Backup & recovery
asked by AsgharE

  30 pts.

status code 50 netbackup

what is a status code 50 in netbackup?

View Answer   |  Feb 28 2008  5:51 PM GMT
Veritas, Backup & recovery, NetBackup
asked by Dlew

  5 pts.

Symantec Backupexec 11d Intelligent Disaster recovery!!

Has anyone tried and was successfull to recover Dell Poweredge servers that has PERC5 Raid controller by using Full Backup and creating IDR CD?

View Answer   |  Feb 19 2008  8:30 PM GMT
Backup & recovery, Symantec Backup Exec 11D, IDR
asked by AsgharE

  30 pts.

Veritas Backup Exec 10.0 Loading media Alert

I have just been though 2 HP Storageworks DAT 72 tape drives to finally get one without problems. Now my back up is getting all our data and is able to restore files, but after job completes and ejects the tape, it trys to load media and I have to manually cancel the job. It is still backing up...

asked by Kitchenguy

  5 pts.

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