I found this really cool open source software that I’m currently implementing for a customer remotely. It’s called HVBackup and is of the time of writing in Beta v1. http://hypervbackup.codeplex.com/ Description from their website: The main goal of this project is to provide a very easy and powerful free tool to backup and restore Hyper-V…
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RoboCopy PowerShell Script
I wrote a script that utilizes RoboCopy to mirror directories. It can easily be changed to do file level backups by changing some configurable parameters within the script. Read RoboCopys documentation to understand the use of switches. Whats interesting about this script is that it writes events/logs to EventLog if executed with administrative privileges, otherwise…
Setting up cluster synchronization with csync2
Having to synchronize some data among a Debian linux cluster, i settled on using csync2 for the job. Here’s a short guide to set it up. Share on Facebook
Backup VMs in a Hyper-V Cluster (Core-version)
As far as I know, after some googling I couldn’t find any program that could take backups of Virtual Machines running on Hyper-V Core when the .VHD files were located on a Cluster Shared Storage. If you read my previous post you can probably understand you aren’t able to install any advanced programs in the…
Simplified robocopy backup script
So I work with many servers and many customers. Usually I had to write a new backup script for every new customer and server. Therefore I figured I might as well just write a template that I can copy/paste everytime I have to implement a robocopy backup script. So here goes. Share on Facebook