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.
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| November 2, 2011 8:43 PM
Active Directory, HARD drive, Hard drive failure, Hard drives, Monitoring software, Spiceworks, Windows 7, Windows XP
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.
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| November 2, 2011 8:43 PM
Active Directory, HARD drive, Hard drive failure, Hard drives, Monitoring software, Spiceworks, Windows 7, Windows XP
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?
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| November 8, 2010 8:38 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory 2003, Active Directory 2008, Active Directory backup, Active Directory Backup and Restore, Backup hardware
Can you backup your AD schema? What is best practice for backing up Active Directory 2003? Is there any difference in backing up 2008?
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| November 8, 2010 8:38 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory 2003, Active Directory 2008, Active Directory backup, Active Directory Backup and Restore, Backup hardware
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?
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| 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
Have an AS400 on the DMZ. WHat port(s) on the FireWall needs to be opened for BRMS to backup on a 3494 system?
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| 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
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 = [...]
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| February 10, 2012 6:15 PM
Linux administration and management, Linux servers, LVM, LVM2, Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu Servers, VMware Server
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 = [...]
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| February 10, 2012 6:15 PM
Linux administration and management, Linux servers, LVM, LVM2, Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu Servers, VMware Server
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?
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| October 13, 2010 2:22 PM
Backup hardware, Backup storage, HARD drive, Hard drive erasure, Security in 2010, Storage, Storage management
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?
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| October 13, 2010 2:22 PM
Backup hardware, Backup storage, HARD drive, Hard drive erasure, Security in 2010, Storage, Storage management
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.
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| October 1, 2010 6:28 PM
AS/400 journaling, AS/400 Library, Backup and restore, Journaling, RSTLIB
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.
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| October 1, 2010 6:28 PM
AS/400 journaling, AS/400 Library, Backup and restore, Journaling, RSTLIB
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
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| October 7, 2010 7:16 AM
Backup, Windows 7, windows 7 backup, Windows Backup, Windows Vista
Is there a way to backup installed programs and drivers on a win 7 or vista pc
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| October 7, 2010 7:16 AM
Backup, Windows 7, windows 7 backup, Windows Backup, Windows Vista
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?
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| September 29, 2010 7:23 AM
Dynamic allocation, EMC, EMC Symmetrix, Symmetrix
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?
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| September 29, 2010 7:23 AM
Dynamic allocation, EMC, EMC Symmetrix, Symmetrix
Backup/recovery across multiple schema
What is the best strategy for backup/recovery of multiple schemas in a database
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| October 1, 2010 8:40 PM
Backup and Recovery database, Database Backup, Database backup and recovery, Database Backup Strategies, Database schema
What is the best strategy for backup/recovery of multiple schemas in a database
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| October 1, 2010 8:40 PM
Backup and Recovery database, Database Backup, Database backup and recovery, Database Backup Strategies, Database schema
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.
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| September 28, 2010 6:28 PM
LTO Tape, LTO3 Tape Drive, LTO3 tape library, Tape drives, Windows, Windows Server 2008 R2
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.
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| September 28, 2010 6:28 PM
LTO Tape, LTO3 Tape Drive, LTO3 tape library, Tape drives, Windows, Windows Server 2008 R2
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?
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| September 27, 2010 2:59 PM
Backup, Backup software, LTO, LTO Tape, LTO tape library, NTBackup, 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?
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| September 27, 2010 2:59 PM
Backup, Backup software, LTO, LTO Tape, LTO tape library, NTBackup, Windows Server 2003
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 [...]
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| September 27, 2010 11:06 AM
Backup, Veritas, Veritas Backup Exec 10, Veritas Backup Job Engine
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 [...]
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| September 27, 2010 11:06 AM
Backup, Veritas, Veritas Backup Exec 10, Veritas Backup Job Engine
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?
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| November 11, 2010 10:08 AM
Antivirus, Backup, Help Desk, Symantec, Symantec AntiVirus, Symantec Backup Exec
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?
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| November 11, 2010 10:08 AM
Antivirus, Backup, Help Desk, Symantec, Symantec AntiVirus, Symantec Backup Exec
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
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| September 27, 2010 4:33 PM
Exchange, SQL, SQL 2008, SQL Database, SQL Server 2008, Symantec, Symantec Backup Exec
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
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| September 27, 2010 4:33 PM
Exchange, SQL, SQL 2008, SQL Database, SQL Server 2008, Symantec, Symantec Backup Exec
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?
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| November 8, 2011 3:44 PM
Backup, Backup and recovery software, Backup software, Scripting, Windows, Windows Server backup, Xcopy
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?
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| November 8, 2011 3:44 PM
Backup, Backup and recovery software, Backup software, Scripting, Windows, Windows Server backup, Xcopy
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 [...]
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| 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
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 [...]
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| 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
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?
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| 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
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?
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| 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
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.
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| February 1, 2012 5:15 PM
CPU, CPU overload, Defragmentation, Windows Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Management
Can I set a server to defragment when the cpu drops to <5% for more than 10 minutes? Windows Server 2003.
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| February 1, 2012 5:15 PM
CPU, CPU overload, Defragmentation, Windows Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Management
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.
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| November 9, 2010 4:12 PM
Active Directory, AD, Auditing, Disk space, Windows, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 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.
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| November 9, 2010 4:12 PM
Active Directory, AD, Auditing, Disk space, Windows, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Domain
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?
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| September 21, 2010 4:11 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory backup, AD, Backup Server, Load balancing, Windows, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2
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?
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| September 21, 2010 4:11 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory backup, AD, Backup Server, Load balancing, Windows, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2
