This one is a keeper http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
I accidentally tried to install Ubuntu over my 500gb data disk. It deleted the NFTS partition then wrote its own ext4 file systems to the disk. Fortunately it died with an error then I realised my mistake.
The lovely folk over at expert sexchange referred me [...]
The key folders to backup for asterisk are
/etc/asterisk
/var/log/asterisk
/var/lib/asterisk
/var/spool/asterisk
/usr/lib/asterisk
/var/lib/mysql
/usr/local/tomcat/webapps
You can use this script to back them up into one gz file.
ora=`date ‘+%Y.%m.%d-%H.%M.%S’`
tar zcf etc-asterisk-$ora.tar.gz /etc/asterisk
tar zcf var-log-asterisk-$ora.tar.gz /var/log/asterisk
tar zcf var-lib-asterisk-$ora.tar.gz /var/lib/asterisk
tar zcf var-spool-asterisk-$ora.tar.gz /var/spool/asterisk
tar zcf usr-lib-asterisk-$ora.tar.gz /usr/lib/asterisk
tar zcf var-lib-mysql-$ora.tar.gz /var/lib/mysql
tar zcf usr-local-tomcat-$ora.tar.gz /usr/local/tomcat/webapps
# make one big file of them all
tar zcf asterisk-backup-$ora.tgz *$ora*
rm -f $ora.tar.gz
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Free Hard Disk / Partition Imaging and Cloning Software
Macrium Reflect Free
This software is able to image your currently running system (using a facility known as Microsoft Volume Shadow copy Service) to another local hard disk, to the Network, a USB or Firewire drive, and DVD. It has a built-in scheduler, so that you can [...]
If you are using a Lacie NAS you are required to set a login name and password in order to access the shared folders. Backup for workgroups in its next release is planning to add a function to enable logins for each repository storage device, but are now in order to enable it to access [...]
Hi Guys.
Had an issue where backup Exec failed daily although it looks to have backed up all data.
The following error message is displayed.
Job ended: Monday, 2 November 2009 at 1:27:47 PM
Completed status: Failed
Final error: 0xe0008527 – VERITAS Storage Foundation for Windows (VSFW) unexpectedly failed. Check that the VSFW service is running, and check [...]
The Express version of MS SQL 2005 does not include functionality to perform a scheduled backup. To get around this, use the “Script to File” option and then run it from the command line using a batch file and Windows Scheduled Tasks function.
1. Open up SQL Server Management Studio Express
2. Drill down to your database [...]
