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• Hyper-V VM Backup Script Batch File

  This will shutdown your virtual machines, copy the .vhd virtual hard disk files (not snapshots) to a backup location, and then power your virtual machines back on. Install the Windows PowerShell Feature You may need to install Windows PowerShell on your... Posted Sep 24 2008, 10:18 PM by Matt Williamson with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Windows, Script, Backup, PowerShell, Hyper-V, Virtualization

• Backup Trixbox via FTP

  After my horrible experience last weekend, I've made backups a top priority while I get my system back online. I found this great tutorial on how to automate a backup schedule for my Trixbox VoIP server and I'm re-iterating it here for future... Posted Jun 04 2008, 07:02 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Backup, FTP, Asterisk, TrixBox, Linux

• GoDaddy SQL Database Backup and Restore

  Through the GoDaddy web interface, there are options to backup or restore your SQL Server databases. The databases are backed up and restored from a folder in the root of your FTP filesystem called '_db_backup'. The unfortunate thing is, you cannot... Posted May 14 2008, 10:45 AM by Matt Williamson with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: GoDaddy, Backup, Restore, SQL

• Restoring Community Server 2007 from Backup

  I have two scripts that run each morning at 4:00am to backup my Community Server website. One of them creates a full backup of the database and the other makes a copy of the \Web directory. Last night, I decided to upgrade to the latest version of Community... Posted Dec 29 2007, 12:53 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Community Server, Backup, Restore

• Accessing Network Shares From A Backup Script

  This issue came up this weekend when I was creating a backup script to copy my website files from my webserver to my file server. The problem is the webserver isn't on the domain so it won't be able to authenticate the user who runs the script... Posted Dec 09 2007, 04:30 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Authentication, Robocopy, Script, Backup, Command, Network, Shares

• Robocopy Backup Script Template

  Robocopy is a powerful command line tool commonly used for backing up files. It's options go above and beyond the standard COPY and XCOPY tools included with Windows. For pre-Vista users, Robocopy is available in the Windows Resource Kit. For Vista... Posted Oct 04 2007, 12:42 PM by Matt Williamson with | with no comments Filed under: Vista, Robocopy, Template, Script, Backup