Backup Questions


Active directory 2003 Full backup procedures.
We need to run a full AD backup. This will be for disaster recovery so it needs to be comprehensive and work from scratch.

Answer Question   |  October 24, 2010  3:24 PM
Active Directory 2003, Active Directory backup, AD, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Windows Server 2003
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9,815 pts.

Accessing backups on Windows XP SP3
i use apricorn to clone and backup. i switchout hard drives every 6mos (500gb) what happens if i don’t have lap top any longer(stolen) or vgcard failure, how can i access photos and applications.  i have accessed photos via backup but photos can only be opened one at a time(opencloseopennew). is there a better way [...]

Answer Question   |  October 19, 2010  5:03 AM
Backup, Backup & recovery, HARD drive, Hard Drive Cloning, Hard Drive Copying, Windows XP SP3
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5 pts.

Backing up Active Directory with two servers
We have a Active Directory and a AD2 server that replicate. Do we need to have another backup of AD or is this sufficient?

Answer Question   |  October 27, 2010  8:37 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory backup, Active Directory Backup and Restore, Backup, Backup Server, Replication
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755 pts.

Backing up an entire Joomla system running on a hosted server
How can you backup the entire Joomla system running on a hosted server?

Answer Question   |  November 8, 2011  8:29 PM
Backup, Backup and Recovery Hardware, Backup and restore, Backup hardware, Backup software, Hosted servers, Joomla
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975 pts.

Automatically wipe the backup tape before a job runs
automatically have the drive wipe the tape before beginning the backup job? We run into full tapes if someone forgets to erase the tape

Answer Question   |  January 3, 2011  5:35 PM
Backup, Backup and restore, Brightstore, Tape Backups, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Backup
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9,815 pts.

Restoration of back ups taken on Dat through tar -cvfr /dev/st0 – RHEL 5.0
Backups are being taken on Dat DDS4 format OS RHEL 5.0. The command is used tar -cvfr /dev/st0 File name. Thus the backups are being taken no of times in one Dat. How to restore the backup of a file which has been taken after first occurence?

Answer Question   |  December 6, 2010  5:16 AM
Backup, Backup and restore, DDS, RHEL 5
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10 pts.

Tape handling for BRMS
We are taking daily backup using BRMS. Two days before because of one  application failure on server, we have cancelled backup. The tape for  that backup was moved to tape library. When problem resolved, we inserted  new tape for backup. Suppose old tape is X and new tape is Y. But, it took X tape [...]

Answer Question   |  October 17, 2010  1:22 PM
AS/400, Backup, BRMS, BRMS Backup, Tape Backups, Tape drives
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HS
55 pts.

Windows Server 2008 R2 Restoring backups
Using the WBADMIN command to use a Authoritive restore and using the DSRM  by using F8 when booting. Im trying to figure out how to restore a back up and havent got very far so far. I assume you use the  Wbadmin start systemstaterecovery get get items -version identifier 10/09/2010-08:10 recoverytarget:C: But cant quite get [...]

Answer Question   |  October 12, 2010  2:51 AM
Backup, WBADMIN, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Backup, Windows Server 2008 Backup Utility, Windows Server 2008 R2
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Hip
5 pts.

What is backed up when backing up Windows XP?
when we backup windows xp,what files it will backup

Answer Question   |  January 30, 2012  3:36 PM
Backup, Backup and recovery software, Windows XP, Windows XP backup, Windows XP Backup Utility
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10 pts.

Is there a way to backup installed programs and drivers on a win 7 or vista pc
Is there a way to backup installed programs and drivers on a win 7 or vista pc

Answer Question   |  October 7, 2010  7:16 AM
Backup, Windows 7, windows 7 backup, Windows Backup, Windows Vista
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Xxx
385 pts.

LTO 2 tape backup for Windows server 2003
Using tapes (LTO2) from a Windows server 2003 and NTBackup. Is this possible? Can I backup to the tape and selectively restore? Or will I need more robust software?

Answer Question   |  September 27, 2010  2:59 PM
Backup, Backup software, LTO, LTO Tape, LTO tape library, NTBackup, Windows Server 2003
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975 pts.

Access is denied to Remote Agent (veritas backup verion 10.00)
I got a job fail report, it says “[tt class="ERROR">Access is denied to Remote Agent. Check the login account for the specified device[/tt][tt class="ERROR">"[/tt]   it was working fine the other day, i check everything, i make sure the logon account for the veritas have admin rights and i have recreate couple of time a [...]

Answer Question   |  September 27, 2010  11:06 AM
Backup, Veritas, Veritas Backup Exec 10, Veritas Backup Job Engine
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5 pts.

Helpdesk Symantec antivirus
1. my senior uninstalled the backup management console in the helpdesk server box, since then: the backup keeps failing and missing to backup. Could this be caused by the untivirus being uninstalled? 2. How do i go about installing the untivirus on the box? 

Answer Question   |  November 11, 2010  10:08 AM
Antivirus, Backup, Help Desk, Symantec, Symantec AntiVirus, Symantec Backup Exec
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5 pts.

Backup script for windows server and external drive.
We have an external drive we want our server to backup all user data to it every night. How can we script this without expensive backup software?

Answer Question   |  November 8, 2011  3:44 PM
Backup, Backup and recovery software, Backup software, Scripting, Windows, Windows Server backup, Xcopy
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9,815 pts.

Are LTO tapes backwards compatible. Why would I not be able to read old tapes?
We have 6 year old LTO tapes. We are trying to restore data from them using a LTO4 drive. We can not read the tapes at all. Not even the label. Can this be fixed? Any ideas? The drives are backwards compatible right?

Answer Question   |  September 21, 2010  3:15 PM
Backup, Backup and recovery management software, LTO Tape, Storage in 2010, Tape Backups, Tape storage, Windows
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9,815 pts.

Can I speed up my LTO 4 daily tape backup?
Backing up servers over a 100mbps node is very very slow. Is there anything that can be done to speed this up over the existing 100mbps line? The transfers seem to be going at around 7-12mbps. The server is a Windows 2000 Advanced server and the client machines are Windows 2003 R2 servers.

Answer Question   |  September 20, 2010  5:10 PM
Backup, LTO, LTO tape library, LTO4, Tape Backups, Windows, Windows Server 2000
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9,815 pts.

Tape availability in AS/400
I have tapes in the library that are “inserted” how do i make them “avaiable” for backup?

Answer Question   |  September 20, 2010  11:24 PM
AS/400, Backup, iSeries, iSeries backup, iSeries backup and recovery, Tape Backups
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5 pts.

SQL Server 2005 backup server
Is there a way to replicate a SQL server database to another SQL server with the same hardware and software? I want a live copy of the data up to date in case something goes wrong and we need to switch to the backup server.

Answer Question   |  January 30, 2012  8:08 PM
Backup, Backup and Recovery Hardware, SQL 2005, SQL Backup, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server database
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1,110 pts.

prompt Outlook 2010 users to archive older emails 2 times a year
Can we prompt Outlook 2010 users to archive older emails 2 times a year and bring up a wizard to do it? Will it also compact the folders or does this need to be done manually?

Answer Question   |  September 17, 2010  3:47 PM
Backup, Email management applications, Outlook 2010, Outlook Administration, Outlook archive, Outlook Backup, Windows
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9,815 pts.

Setting up backup Exchange Server
How can I setup a backup exchange server? We have a MX record that points to our main box. I want the secondary MX record to point to the backup machine with a lower priority. How can I point clients to the backup machine if the primary one goes down?

Answer Question   |  September 17, 2010  3:42 PM
Backup, Backup and Recovery Hardware, Backup Server, Backup server software, Exchange 2000, Exchange administration, Exchange Backup, Exchange Server
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1,110 pts.