Monitoring SMART hard drive status via Active Directory
Can we monitor SMART hard drive status via Active Directory or via SpiceWorks to know before a potential hard drive failure? How would this work. Client machines are XP and 7.

Answer Question   |  November 2, 2011  8:43 PM
Active Directory, HARD drive, Hard drive failure, Hard drives, Monitoring software, Spiceworks, Windows 7, Windows XP
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1,110 pts.

Active Directory 2003 backup
Can you backup your AD schema? What is best practice for backing up Active Directory 2003? Is there any difference in backing up 2008?

Answer Question   |  November 8, 2010  8:38 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory 2003, Active Directory 2008, Active Directory backup, Active Directory Backup and Restore, Backup hardware
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1,110 pts.

What port(s) on the FireWall needs to be opened for BRMS to backup on a 3494 system?
Have an AS400 on the DMZ. WHat port(s) on the FireWall needs to be opened for BRMS to backup on a 3494 system?

Answer Question   |  October 4, 2010  7:36 PM
AS/400 backup, AS/400 backup and recovery, AS/400 Port Numbers, Backup and recovery software, BRMS, BRMS Backup
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5 pts.

How to resize an LVM root partition
I’m trying to resize the root partition of an Ubuntu 10.04 server which is an LVM partition, but I don’t seem to find the correct way to do it. This is my current partition table: Disk /dev/sda: 16.1 GB, 16106127360 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1958 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = [...]

Answer Question   |  February 10, 2012  6:15 PM
Linux administration and management, Linux servers, LVM, LVM2, Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu Servers, VMware Server
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63,535 pts.

Wiping hard drives in 100 PCs
We are donating 100 PCs. How can I quickly and effectively wipe all their hard drives? I have looked into Mban and it looks promising but would I be better doing that or pulling all the drives and formatting multiple ones at the same time? What are best practices for doing this?

Answer Question   |  October 13, 2010  2:22 PM
Backup hardware, Backup storage, HARD drive, Hard drive erasure, Security in 2010, Storage, Storage management
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1,110 pts.

How do I restore without starting journaling?
all of the documentation talks about starting the journaling process. I want to actually restore a production library without invoking journaling on the restored library.

Answer Question   |  October 1, 2010  6:28 PM
AS/400 journaling, AS/400 Library, Backup and restore, Journaling, RSTLIB
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20 pts.

Is there a way to backup installed programs and drivers on a win 7 or vista pc
Is there a way to backup installed programs and drivers on a win 7 or vista pc

Answer Question   |  October 7, 2010  7:16 AM
Backup, Windows 7, windows 7 backup, Windows Backup, Windows Vista
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385 pts.

Symmetrix – choosing permanent or dynamic spare
I have a permanent spare and dynamic spares are available in the symmetrix array when a disk is going to fail the data available in the failed disk will be copied to permanent or dynamic spare? How the disk choose whether the data has to be copied to permanent or dynamic spare?

Answer Question   |  September 29, 2010  7:23 AM
Dynamic allocation, EMC, EMC Symmetrix, Symmetrix
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20 pts.

Backup/recovery across multiple schema
What is the best strategy for backup/recovery of multiple schemas in a database

Answer Question   |  October 1, 2010  8:40 PM
Backup and Recovery database, Database Backup, Database backup and recovery, Database Backup Strategies, Database schema
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5 pts.

Can we simulate a library with multiple tape drives?
We have several LTO3 tape drives instead of purchasing a library can we make use of the 4 drives like a library to span tapes without having to load new ones? Using Backup Exec 12 on Win 2008 R2.

Answer Question   |  September 28, 2010  6:28 PM
LTO Tape, LTO3 Tape Drive, LTO3 tape library, Tape drives, Windows, Windows Server 2008 R2
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9,815 pts.

LTO 2 tape backup for Windows server 2003
Using tapes (LTO2) from a Windows server 2003 and NTBackup. Is this possible? Can I backup to the tape and selectively restore? Or will I need more robust software?

Answer Question   |  September 27, 2010  2:59 PM
Backup, Backup software, LTO, LTO Tape, LTO tape library, NTBackup, Windows Server 2003
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975 pts.

Access is denied to Remote Agent (veritas backup verion 10.00)
I got a job fail report, it says “[tt class="ERROR">Access is denied to Remote Agent. Check the login account for the specified device[/tt][tt class="ERROR">"[/tt]   it was working fine the other day, i check everything, i make sure the logon account for the veritas have admin rights and i have recreate couple of time a [...]

Answer Question   |  September 27, 2010  11:06 AM
Backup, Veritas, Veritas Backup Exec 10, Veritas Backup Job Engine
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5 pts.

Helpdesk Symantec antivirus
1. my senior uninstalled the backup management console in the helpdesk server box, since then: the backup keeps failing and missing to backup. Could this be caused by the untivirus being uninstalled? 2. How do i go about installing the untivirus on the box? 

Answer Question   |  November 11, 2010  10:08 AM
Antivirus, Backup, Help Desk, Symantec, Symantec AntiVirus, Symantec Backup Exec
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5 pts.

Production SQL Database has been restored with Old database backup
Dear Expert, I need your Advice, today in morning i run Symantec backup restore on SQL 2008 server where i overwrite the production Database with Old backup. Is there any way i can retreive the old Database until yesterday. i dnt have any backup of New database which i accidentally overwritten.   Please help me

Answer Question   |  September 27, 2010  4:33 PM
Exchange, SQL, SQL 2008, SQL Database, SQL Server 2008, Symantec, Symantec Backup Exec
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5 pts.

Backup script for windows server and external drive.
We have an external drive we want our server to backup all user data to it every night. How can we script this without expensive backup software?

Answer Question   |  November 8, 2011  3:44 PM
Backup, Backup and recovery software, Backup software, Scripting, Windows, Windows Server backup, Xcopy
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9,815 pts.

How to recover the deleted database using transaction log file?
Hello all u witty people! I am working for a pvt. corporate company. We are using Windows 2003Server as our OS and SQL Server. Earlier this morning, i was taking the back up and as my hard disk ran out of space, so it showed me an error message stating that there was not much [...]

Answer Question   |  October 31, 2011  4:51 AM
Data Recovery, SQL Log Files, SQL Server, SQL Server transaction logs, Windows, Windows Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Backup
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45 pts.

Windows server 2008 data loss possible?
we installed Window2008 in our new server in jUNE 09. tHEN IN sEPT 09 WE FOUND THAT 3 MONTHS OF DATA WERE LOST OVER NIGHT. ouR COMPUTER MAINTAINANCE ATTRIBUTED IT TO ROLLED BACK AND THE DEFAULT DATE ON THE OCMPUTER WAS RESETTED BACK TO JUNE. bACKED UP DATA WERE ALSO GONE. cAN THIS POSSIBLY HAPPEN?

Answer Question   |  September 24, 2010  1:19 AM
Data Loss, Data Recovery, Data Recovery Software, Windows, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Administration, Windows Server 2008 Backup, Windows Server backup
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5 pts.

Defragment when CPU drops below 5%?
Can I set a server to defragment when the cpu drops to <5% for more than 10 minutes? Windows Server 2003.

Answer Question   |  February 1, 2012  5:15 PM
CPU, CPU overload, Defragmentation, Windows Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Management
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Auditing Windows servers for low disk space on a 2003 domain.
I want to audit about 200 servers for low disk space. The servers are using Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008. What is my best bet for doing this easily? The reporting machine can be any of the servers or a XP or 7 workstation.

Answer Question   |  November 9, 2010  4:12 PM
Active Directory, AD, Auditing, Disk space, Windows, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Domain
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9,815 pts.

Setting up a backup AD server.
what is the proper method of setting up a second AD server for backup and load balancing? What needs to be setup and what is the proper procedure?

Answer Question   |  September 21, 2010  4:11 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory backup, AD, Backup Server, Load balancing, Windows, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2
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9,815 pts.