Recommendations for Full Backups

I need to backup my MacBookPro HD which has 2 partitions... 50% MacOSX and the other 50% WinXP.
I was going to use Acronis TrueImage for the WinXP partition but their tech support said it doesn't work on Mac hardware which is a real bummer. Ideally I want a full ghost of my entire C:\ drive under WinXP with all the apps and data if possible.
Suggestions would be very appreciated.

TI 11 didn't but 2009 might. Had to do with support for GPT.
Paragon has NTFS for OS X; CampTune; and Drive Manager 2009 which lists Boot Camp support.
Vista Ultimate and W7 of course have built in backup files and PC support of their own.
Norton 360 has backup feature.
WinClone runs in OS X and useful to take single full snapshots.
Microsoft SyncToy 2.0 is handy for folder synchronizing.

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Recommendations for both Backup and Defrag utilities?

Hi:
Well, we have finally broken down and purchased an external hard drive to perform backups... only to discover there is no built-in utility on the computer for doing so. Does anyone have an inexpensive (or free) recommendation for good backup utilities? Same goes for a defrag utility?
Thanks! Rich

Hi, Rich & Tom!
I've been using SuperDuper! lately and am really impressed with it's user interface and ease of use. However, the latest versions require OS X 10.3.9 or later to run this program and earlier versions apparently aren't available for download, at least from the developer's site. I've used CarbonCopyCloner (CCC), too, and it would be an excellent way to clone the startup volume to a volume on the new drive, resulting in a duplicate of the startup drive. The current version will work with OS X 10.2.x. If Rich purchased a FireWire drive (versus a USB drive, which isn't bootable with the G4), the clone should be bootable from the external drive.
Like Tom indicated, OS X already has automatic defrag abilities built in. Moreover, when one moves files from one volume to another one, the moved files are defragmented in the process (as long as sufficient free space is available on the destination drive). Thus, a basic defrag of the entire hard disk volume occurs when CCC, Disk Utility's Restore option, or SuperDuper! is used to clone the volume to an empty volume. I regularly clone for backup and find that this takes care of even huge video files that can sometimes overwhelm OS X's built-in defragmenting after a lot of editing. I have a defrag utility as part of Prosoft's Drive Genius, but have never once needed it. Moreover, I'm somewhat leery of running such a utility without having first backed up, which really negates it's potential usefulness, seeing that the backup cloning effectively does this in the first place.
Personally, having an external FW drive, I'd clone the current system to the external (or to a partition there), boot to it and test to insure that all went well, and then install Tiger fresh on the internal drive, using the Migration Assistant to transfer my user data and applications to the new OS. I'd then update my applications on the Tiger volume (and insure Tiger compatibility) and then test the new Tiger volume by running from it for at least a week or more before deciding to erase the old 10.2 volume. When satisfied that everything is stable, I'd then clone the Tiger volume to the other drive for backup.
Gary

Script cleanup for full backup

I'd like to clean up some old scripts on the DB server (Oracle 10gR2).
There is a backup script for a full backup. I would like to remove the command "backup archivelog all" as "backup incremental level 0 database plus archivelog" already contains the archive logs. I would also like to remove the second "backup current controlfile" (the one just before "backup archivelog all") as I think it is redundant.
Or do I oversee anything?
rman target / <<EOF
configure channel device type disk format = '$BACKUP_DIR/back_%d_%s_%p_%t';
sql "alter system checkpoint";
sql "alter system switch logfile";
crosscheck archivelog all;
backup current controlfile;
backup incremental level 0 database plus archivelog;
backup current controlfile;
backup archivelog all;
###########

What is really easier than controlfile autobackup ? Except maybe the case when you are not using a recovery catalog and you have lost all you current control files, you have to retrieve DBID before restoring control file from autobackup...
Oracle recommends that CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP be set to ON from Control File and Server Parameter File Autobackups.
It's even listed as number 8 in following Metalink note:
Subject:      Top 10 Backup and Recovery best practices.
     Doc ID:      Note:388422.1      Type:      FAQ
     Last Revision Date:      05-DEC-2007      Status:      PUBLISHED
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Pierre Forstmann

Suggested methods for full backup of XServe RAID data

I know this is only peripherally related to the discussion topic, but since every other suggestion posted here is followed by the disclaimer that you should make a full backup of your data before proceeding with any major operations on your RAID arrays, I'd like to know what more experienced admins do in order to create a full backup for reasonably fast recovery in case of substantial data loss during maintenance/repair.
Our current "backup" availability is incremental optical disc archival (our data is mostly "write-once"), but this isn't entirely practical for recovery since it's over a terabyte of data. Since the connected server has a free hot-swappable SCSI drive bay as well as an interface for external SCSI devices, not to mention the fiber channel and ethernet interfaces, the options that I'd consider in order would be:
1. A handful of 150-500 Gb SCSI hard drives, rotated out of the hot-swappable bay
2. An external tape drive attached to the SCI interface (with appropriate tape size, maybe the LTO-2 with 200Gb native capacity?)
3. Some other external SCSI storage device
4. Larger optical disc archival (I hear there are technologies arriving in the near future)
5. Network-based option; remote seems impractical due to sheer size, but perhaps local?
The idea is to make a full backup (long-term solutions are superior of course) of 1-2 Tb of data on the XServe RAID before attempting major surgery. Suggestions for common, accepted, tested, efficient methods for accomplishing this would be greatly appreciated. I apologize if this thread isn't on-topic enough for some of you.
-Brian

Brian,
Tape IMO is kinda yucky (to steal a term from your average 3 year old). It's fairly slow to back up to, it's very slow to restore, and it's actually not that reliable by itself (I worked with a large enterprise customer who said their backups were successful about 70% of the time (!!!)).
That said, tape has the advantage that you can offsite it and archive it very cheaply, and the media are fairly cheap, so you can make lots of backups, so if one fails, you probably can restore the data from another tape.
Disks are more expensive initially, but end up being pretty reliable, and you get a lot more flexibility (plus, they're fast).
An emerging "best of both worlds" backup strategy is what's called disk to disk to tape, where you typically back up to another large "disk," for example a second Xserve RAID. Data is then backed up from the second disk to tape, which is taken offsite... thus tape is used for what it's best at (offsite archival). Restore can be from disk in most cases, which is 10-20x faster than restoring from tape. People use software packages like Netvault's Bakbone or Atempo's Time Navigator, which can handle the whole process, and it works quite well. The backup disks (e.g. the RAID) can be onsite, or can be at a backup site a couple KM away, attached via optical (this is preferable, for DR reasons).
For cases where a second Xserve RAID is prohibitively expensive, cheaper (and slower) RAID 5 enclosures like Wiebetech's RAIDtech can provide a large (say, 1.6 TB) RAID 5 volume, accessible over FW800 or SATA (not sure if they have a SATA-based one yet).

Which NAS you recommend for SMB backup storage

Synology and ReadyNAS would be my first choices in this category. I have and use both and love them. I've had quite good success with Buffalo as well with clients. Nearly all storage engineers that I know when choosing this type of storage, like Kooler, choice Synology and ReadyNAS.
For backups and archives specifically I have had good luck with Drobo too.

For me it's always between Netgear and Synology. Now I'm back to Netgears (being a green guy here I cannot tell reason in public).For anything bigger then 2 SATAs in RAID1 economically reasonable to "roll your own" backup appliance. Recycled Dell R7xx and again recycled Windows Server 2012 R2 (because of SMB3 and decent backup-ready dedupe) appliance is very hard to beat! In case you don't have old server xByte has a stack of reburbished ones they sell cheap.--Planning to buy a NAS storage for our backups.Very small environment with VMware host, 7 VMs, Veeam backup.Total backup size 200GB, daily increment is around 7-10GB (Compressed).Will use the NAS for backup storage only and nothing else.Which brand do you recommend or use at your SMB locations:SynologyQNAPSeagateNetgear ReadyNASBuffalo

Syntax for full backup thru RMAN

hi all ..
i have oracle 11g installed on M5000, Solaris 10
i want to take full backup of my database thru RMAN
i have enter following on backup server
. .db/env
connect catalog rrkas/rr345
(connected)
connect target sys/root123@grid1
(connected)
RMAN> run {
allocat channel dev1 type disk;
backup database
format '/export/home/oracle/dumps/grid3_%t_%sp%p';
release channel dev1;
it started the job.On my dbserver file is created as per the format.
just want to ask, is it the right way to take full/physical backup? Is this backup enough to fully recover the files, in case a new RAC is added to the cluster?
thanks in advance.

If your database is running in ARCHIVELOG mode, this is not enough: you must backup archived redo logs for example with
backup database plus archivelog:Read about consistent and inconsistent backups in http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/backup.111/b28270/rcmcncpt.htm#BABIHBBE and about archived redo logs backups in http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/backup.111/b28270/rcmbckba.htm#i1006454
Edited by: P. Forstmann on 20 nov. 2009 07:42

Recommendations for OneDrive Backup Methods

So my company just switched over to Office365, and so far things are pretty good. I'm looking to utilize the OneDrive features as a replacement for our individual user drives, currently housed on our server. My issue is this:
1. Microsoft doesn't recommend using OneDrive as a backup method, therefore I will need to back these drives separately from OneDrive.
2. According to Microsoft's site, it's not supported or recommended to change the location of OneDrive, so it's forever on the local drive of the user's computer.
With these issues taken in to account. How am I supposed to backup OneDrive if every drive is on that individual user's computer? It's an administrative nightmare to manually point everything to a server location for easier backup access since users have
different schedules and some will shut their computers down at night (when a backup would take place) while others don't.
So, for anyone who has done this already, how do you manage the backups?
Thanks!

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Recommendations for cloud backup for both Mac + PC

My company wants to begin cloud backups for both our Macs and Windows machines. I'd like input on anyone's experiences with any of the companies that provide this.
Ideally, I'd like it *similar to* the ~$60/yr plans (as for one computer); I'll have to compare pricing for multiple units once I have at least a couple of recommended programs.
Thanks,
CB

Mozy
CrashPlan
Carbnite
I've been using Mozy on my MacBook. Mostly it works OK, but every once in awhile, they put out a new release, and it break my Mac Mozy backup (I think they focus on the PC side of the business more). The customer support has been responsive (assuming you get someone that is not PC centric, which is easy to do if you ask). Then again, I've had to reload all my stuff from scratch twice because of Mozy hick-ups. This is too bad for me, as I consider Mozy a secondary backup for off-site protection, not my primary backup solution.
I know Mozy has a corporate backup solution, however, I do not know how much they charge.
I also do not know if Mozy pesonal edition will get through a corporate firewall. If you are a small company without a corporate firewall, then that is not a problem.

External HD dock recommendations for esata backup

I know owc and other sites have many different ones available. Looking for recommendations.
Will be for a early 2008 mbp 17in non unibody. Will be purchasing sonnett express card/34 esata adaptor for esata interface. Single HD port. HD compatiblity to 1tb prefered.
Thanks in advance.

Be extremely careful with expresscard adapters and MacBook Pros. I have a MacBook Pro 2007 and three different eSATA expresscard adapters:
OWC Slim ExpressCard to eSATA Adapter. T
APIOTEK EXTREME Dual eSATA SATA I/II Express Card 34 Adapter with the latest Silicon Image 3132 Drivers
OWC ExpressCard/34 eSATA SATA I/II ExpressCard/34 Adapter
None of these work on my MacBook Pro 2009. The card is recognized, the hard drive mounts, and reads from it. However after writing for 5-10 minutes. The hard drive is corrupted and I have te re-nitialize the hard drive.
Exact same Mac OS 10.6.7, same card and same three different hard drives enclosures (OWC RAID and Non-RAID, and Hitachi): No problem on my MacBook Pro 2007.
There are many notes in xlr8yourmac about hard drive file corruption.
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/OSXeSATA_PMreports.html
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/feedback/express34cardreports.html#storytop
There are also several notes on macintouch
I have talked with Apple and they are unaware of these issues.
So be very careful when using expresscard adapters and depend them to be reliable with hard drives. I have given up and use Firewire 800. Unfortunately, Apple has not taken the time to debug this and admit they have a problem.
Make sure you extensively test this before any actual use. It might take a few reads and writes to exibit the file corruption.

Recommendations for external backup hard drive...mirrored

My external hard drive that I used with Time Machine to backup my MacBook has bit the dust.
Ideally, I would like to get one that has hardware mirroring. At least 1gb. and Firewire 400 compatible.
It's the mirroring feature that I'm having trouble finding. Anyone have a drive they are happy with? Or can you point me in the right direction?
Thanks

My favorite mirroring or cloning application is SuperDuper! which can be downloaded [Here|http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html].
As far as an external drive is concerned, I've had tremendous success with Western Digital drives. I've used several desktop models but recently purchased a portable (2.5") 750Gb Passport Essential SE because of it's size and portability. After formatting it for Mac, I remember that I needed assistance from the Internet for instructions to remove the pesky windows only WD backup software from the disk. It was simple to remove but it involved an update in order to get rid of it.

Full backup volume on RHEL5

Hi Guru,
I want to do a full backup volume (OS + Application Server + DB + File system) on my RHEL5 server to the tape drive. I use SAP 6.0 EHP5 and Oracle 11g Database on one machine.
On IBM AIX we can tools "Smitty", what tools can be used for full backup volume on RHEL5?
If using a 3rd party, what recommendations?
Thanks and Regard,
Ali Marjan

Hi,
For taking of backup....
OS-----Tell u r OS team they will take necessary files on Tape.
Database------Take full offline tape backup.
Application------If it runs on different server take the "root,sapmnt" on tape.
That's enough.
Regards,
Anil

Co-location for daily backup

I have created a protection group for file server and taking backup of a share on tape drive.
under protection method--> I chose I want short-term protection using : tape
retention range: 1 week
frequency of backup: daily
backup mode: full and incremental
so full backup on Saturday and other days incremental backup.
I have around 700 GB data size.
I have shortages of tape. from recovery option: I saw in this month on 12thOct, on Saturday it run full backup. It took one tape [say tape 1]
on the next 6 days it run incremental backup on another tape.[say tape 2]
again on Saturday for full backup it took tape 3 [tape 3]
again to run incremental backup it is asking for free tape. and back up failed.
in this way I am wasting space on tape. data size is 700 GB, tape size is around 3 TB.
I can see there is option in 'optimize usage' where I can mention under advanced. write period and expiry tolerance.
i believe I need to modify these settings. please suggest if i want daily incremental backup and full backup on Saturday with 1 week retention and reuse the same tape or second tape instead of waiting for more tapes

Hi,
It is currently working as designed for tape library.
See the following TechNet page:
How DPM Uses Tape Libraries
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh757885.aspx
Short-term tape "full and incremental" option
The full backup will require a free tape for each scheduled job, and the incremental backup for all data sources will be appended to a single separate tape.
As tapes fill up, new free tapes will be allocated.
When the next full backup occurs, it will require another free tape, and subsequent incremental backups will be appended to another free tape.
So basically, you will need three sets of tapes for a 1 week retention range.
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FUll backup is taking 2 days to complete

i have a maintenance plan setup for full backup and the total size of databases is around 4 TB. compress backup option is also enabled.
it takes around 2 days to finish every week, what can be the potential problem?
Regards
k

Hello,
Could you please describe that local drive? Is that local drive part of RAID?
Is that drive dedicated for backups or it is shared with the operating system and SQL Server databases/binaries?
How many cores/cpus on that computer?
Could you please share the result of the following query?
SELECT
TOP 40 *
FROM
sys.dm_os_wait_stats
ORDER
BY wait_time_ms
DESC
Could you please share with us the average values of the following Performance Monitor (Control Panel) counters?
Object: Physical Disk / Logical Disk
Counters: Avg. Disk sec/Read, Avg. Disk sec/Write, Avg. Disk sec/Transfer, Avg. Disk Queue Length
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Alberto Morillo
SQLCoffee.com

Rman full backup issue

Hi,
The Media Management Layer GUI shows that my RMAN incremental level 0 (full) finished successfuly in the last 3 weeks.
Yet , V$RMAN_BACKUP_JOB_DETAILS shows only incremental level 1 and archive log backups :
SQL> select distinct input_type
2   from V$RMAN_BACKUP_JOB_DETAILS ;
INPUT_TYPE
ARCHIVELOG
DB INCRIt does not shows DB FULL .
What elese i can check to be sure that my Full backups are finished successfully ?
Thanks

Hi,
From the results of this statments i dont see DB FULL
SQL> select distinct object_type from v$rman_status where operation='BACKUP';
OBJECT_TYPE
DB INCR
CONTROLFILE
ARCHIVELOGIn the second suggested query , the output results suggest for FULL backup :
select ctime "Date",
       decode(backup_type, 'L', 'Archive Log', 'D', 'Full', 'Incremental') backup_type,
        bsize "Size MB"
from (select trunc(bp.completion_time) ctime
              , backup_type
              , round(sum(bp.bytes/1024/1024),2) bsize
       from v$backup_set bs, v$backup_piece bp
       where bs.set_stamp = bp.set_stamp
       and bs.set_count = bp.set_count
       and bp.status = 'A'
       group by trunc(bp.completion_time), backup_type)
order by 1, 2;
Date      BACKUP_TYPE    Size MB
11-NOV-11 Archive Log       6304
11-NOV-11 Full           1455291   <<<<===
11-NOV-11 Incremental     1192.5
12-NOV-11 Archive Log    4718.25
12-NOV-11 Incremental     8939.5
13-NOV-11 Archive Log    7391.25
13-NOV-11 Full              23.5   <<<<===
13-NOV-11 Incremental   13892.25
14-NOV-11 Archive Log    4995.75
14-NOV-11 Full              23.5   <<<===
14-NOV-11 Incremental    4045.25
15-NOV-11 Archive Log       2249
15-NOV-11 Full              23.5   <<<<====
15-NOV-11 Incremental    1617.75This of the first Full output : 1455291 M seems OK , but the rest are too small just 23 Mega .
How come ?
Also how can i be sure that this FULL backup finished successfully ?
Thanks Again for you help

Recommendations for external hd for Time Machine backups

After having my 1TB G-Tech G-Drive Q desktop external h.d. crap out on me for a second or third time, this time for good, I give up on G-Tech. (I also had a faulty 500GB G-Tech portable which had to be replaced.)
For many reasons, my iMac's Time Machine backups have to be stored on an external hard drive. Two or three times, the external h.d. has become corrupted or something and has had to be reformatted, losing all the previous backups and starting all over again. This time, since the external h.d. is toast, I have no backups at all.
My MAIN question: Do any of you have a recommendation for an external hard drive - probably desktop, but not necessarily - preferably 1TB - which is RELIABLE?
Is this h.d. corruption/repeated failure a function of Time Machine? The hard drive itself?
What good is Time Machine if we lose backups all the time?

limerick2010 wrote:
Sorry to butt in, but I'm on the lookout for a solution to make a secondary, offsite back-up of my company's data. I was also looking at the usage of external hard disk for the purpose but am stumbling at a very basic question.
If the first disk(say 1TB) runs out of space and I connect a new hard-disk, wouldn't Time Machine back up all the stuff previously backed up, all over again on the new disk?
Exactly. Bt you're talking about two very different things: secondary backups vs. not enough room for primary backups.
The whole point of secondary backups is having a second, separate set, so if something happens to the primary set (lost, corrupted, disk fails, etc.), you have another complete set. As noted in the link in my previous post, it's also a good idea to use a different app for the secondary set, in case there's a problem with the primary app.
If your Time Machine disk gets full, you have three choices:
Let Time Machine start deleting old backup(s) automatically, to make room for new ones. You don't need to keep them forever -- a few months should be plenty for most users.
Get a new disk and start backing-up to it. Keep the old one "on the shelf" until you're sure you don't need the old backups any longer. You can always view and restore from them via the +*Browse ...+* option, per #17 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).
Get a larger disk, copy the old backups to it, and continue backing-up to the new one. See #18 in the FAQ.

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