You probably have a backup strategy for the local files on your computer, but for a business operating a website, protecting the data on your website is just as -- if not more -- important. In cases ...

Let's follow up the last column with a step-by-step breakdown shows how the PowerShell script automates SQL Server backups, manages retention, logs activity and verifies data integrity. In my first ...

Backups are one of those jobs that look solved right up until they fail at the worst possible moment. For a long time, my ...

For as long as I can remember, I have always configured the computers within my own organization to store data on network servers as opposed to the data being stored on workstations. That way, if one ...

To run the backup program on a Server Core system, you can just use WBADMIN as you would (for example) in a script on a full server box, for example: wbadmin.exe start backup -backupTarget:servershare ...

Build a bash script that controls what, where, and when backups run. Schedule the executable backup.sh with cron and review logs and destination after runs. Test the script, use absolute paths to ...

Also keep in mind that a LaunchAgent will only run if a user is logged in. If you want this to run even when sitting at the login window, make a LaunchDaemon. It can be the same plist, just a matter ...

I'm curious to know how everyone here is managing server scripts across multiple servers. Before you jump with the obvious answer of subversion, CVS, etc... that is ...