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Questions tagged [backup]

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How do you back up Jenkins jobs & master configs?

I'd like to backup all Jenkins jobs and config files. What's the easiest way of doing it?
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Best practices for external backups for S3 buckets?

I would like to know how everyone is making external backups of S3 buckets and best practices/recommendations for this. Regardless of how good AWS is it is still a single point of failure. Especially on a more corporate scale, vast amounts of…
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How to test database applications in QA testing environments?

Process Our current process is: Build process produces a windows setup (msi). This setup consists of a web site deployment and also database scripts - which can create a new database or upgrade an existing version. The QA person needs to…
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Backup Jenkins log files to external cloud storage

I'm looking to automatically back up Jenkins log files for all jobs running on our master and slaves once a week, moving them to aws' s3 and deleting them from their respective directories when done. My question is, is there an existing plugin that…
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Zip/tar a folder using chef resource

Can someone help me how to take backup for a specific folder and also zip/tar those folders. I am using this for taking a backup actually, but I would like a compressed output: bash "backup #{dir_name}" do user 'user' cwd "#{path}" code…
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What are tools that lend themselves for backup and recovery in a CI/CD environment?

I have used tar, dump, Amanda, Legato (EMC) Networker and other backup software for making backups of systems. However, I don't know the best tools for making backups in a CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) environment and doing…
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How to push to other origins using Azure Pipelines?

Inspired by Necessity of mirroring git repos for small team considering switching to Azure: How does one use Azure Pipelines to push changes to a secondary/backup origin on push? Possible use cases: Need of a backup, like GitLab as backup for Azure…
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How to handle AWS Offsite or cross-account RDS (mysql) backups?

AWS Provides a great solution to provide point-in-time recovery backups within RDS. However, while we take every measure to protect the root account, I'm paranoid that if someone were to gain access they can wipe the entire AWS account including all…
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How to take a backup of Ansible tower?

Currently we have an awx running on a VM using containers: CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES dfb9fa57a8eb …
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archive contents of a reviewboard server as read-only

My team was using an Ubuntu box to host an instance of Reviewboard 2.5.2 that we used for a few years before migrating to a Bitbucket service in the cloud. The machine was maintained by my predecessor who has long-since left the company. Edit: to…
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Export AWS RDS mysql Database to S3 Bucket using xtrabackup or any other method

I have an AWS RDS MySQL Database. The size of the Database is around of 1.5 GB. We are using MySQL 5.7.32. We tried with SQL dump but in dump data is missing in Dump. We found out that we can use xtrabackup. We are using xtrabackup version 2.4.21…
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How to remove the AWS Backups

I'm using AWS Backup to create snapshots of my production server. My current backup plan has infinite retention and that ran me into gigabytes of storage. What would be the best way to fix that? I saw I can't remove the backups in bulk (can only…
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Download Google Cloud Bucket as a file (zip)

I use Firebase. If you want to backup a Firebase bucket, they recommend doing this: https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/manage-data/export-import What is the problem? You are backing up a bucket inside other bucket. I want to backup my bucket…
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Planning a backup system using postgress, chef and vault

As the title says I am working on planning a way to backup postgres using chef and vault. Idea is that we already encrypt the backups from postgres using a key (random binary string) and we would like to keep that going. We would like to store that…
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How does GitLab handle stranded (orphaned) artifacts in Object Store?

If I have a two minio clusters, one running in production and, one running as a hot-backup streaming with mc mirror, And, if I have a point-in-time-backup running gitaly-backup. What happens if new artifacts are added after gitaly-backup is run?…
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