Backup

Backup VMware ESXi using BazaarVCB

This post describes how you can backup your VMware ESXi home installation with free license using BazaarVCB if you do not have a vCenter Server available. Bazaarvcb is the fastest backup solution I have used on the free VMware hypervisor. Download the latest version from the download page. The backup script is run by crontab…

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Backup

Using rsnapshot as backup solution

This post describes short how to use rsnapshot as a remote filesystem snapshot utility, based on rsync that I use as my personal backup tool. I have started using rsnapshot after using rsync and rdiff-backup and lost files because of file corruption. rsnapshot is a great backup utility because it hardlinks files if they already…

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Scripting

Backup of Zimbra MailBox using zmmailbox

This is a short script I use to backup the Zimbra mailbox content for my users. This has been used on a Zimbra Collaboration Server (ZCS Open Source Edition) 7.2 installation, but should work on earlier versions as well. I use another script to backup the whole Zimbra installation, but that might be another blog…

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Windows

NetBackup 7.x port usage

If you are unsure what ports Symantec NetBackup 7.x master or media Windows server uses, just open the following file %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\services The content in this file could be like this if you have not made any changes to the default configuration bpcd 13782/tcp bprd 13720/tcp vnetd 13724/tcp vopied 13783/tcp bpdbm 13721/tcp bpjobd 13723/tcp bpjava-msvc 13722/tcp…

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