How do I duplicate or clone a dying SATA drive?
Regardless of the type of drive, SATA, IDE etc.. I have always used the Unix tool “dd” for duplicating data. This is awesome when it comes to taking data from a source drive to another drive or even backup image file. There are a couple of things to bear in mind though when using dd. [...]
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| August 10, 2010 3:52 PM
Backup, Clone database, IDE, IDE hard drives, SATA, SATA Drives, SCSI, SCSI Drives
Regardless of the type of drive, SATA, IDE etc.. I have always used the Unix tool “dd” for duplicating data. This is awesome when it comes to taking data from a source drive to another drive or even backup image file. There are a couple of things to bear in mind though when using dd. [...]
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| August 10, 2010 3:52 PM
Backup, Clone database, IDE, IDE hard drives, SATA, SATA Drives, SCSI, SCSI Drives
Defragmentation on Windows Vista desktop
De fragmentation can only arrange the file system table and it helps to search quickly files or folder. If u want to make xp faster then there r no of tweeks and u have to complete and then the vista computer may faster.
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| August 10, 2010 5:03 AM
Defragmentation, Windows desktop, Windows Vista, Windows Vista deployment, Windows Vista performance, Windows Vista troubleshooting
De fragmentation can only arrange the file system table and it helps to search quickly files or folder. If u want to make xp faster then there r no of tweeks and u have to complete and then the vista computer may faster.
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| August 10, 2010 5:03 AM
Defragmentation, Windows desktop, Windows Vista, Windows Vista deployment, Windows Vista performance, Windows Vista troubleshooting
ASP Increased over night; how do I get it back to a normal level?
The problem is that it might be temporary space in a job, e.g., a server job; and the space might be released when that server job ends or even recycles. It might be a big bunch of streamfiles in the IFS — someone might be storing their video collection in your system. It might be [...]
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| August 10, 2010 1:23 AM
AS/400, ASP, DASD
The problem is that it might be temporary space in a job, e.g., a server job; and the space might be released when that server job ends or even recycles. It might be a big bunch of streamfiles in the IFS — someone might be storing their video collection in your system. It might be [...]
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| August 10, 2010 1:23 AM
AS/400, ASP, DASD
Database Log File sql server 2005
Well your problem is that you have all the data stored on the same physical disks so you are causing all sorts of contention on the disks. If you are using 8 drives in a RAID 10, then you actually only get to use 4 as the other 4 are a mirror of the first [...]
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| August 5, 2010 7:12 PM
RAID, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2005 performance, SQL Server logs, SQL Server performance
Well your problem is that you have all the data stored on the same physical disks so you are causing all sorts of contention on the disks. If you are using 8 drives in a RAID 10, then you actually only get to use 4 as the other 4 are a mirror of the first [...]
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| August 5, 2010 7:12 PM
RAID, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2005 performance, SQL Server logs, SQL Server performance
disaster recovery exchange 2003
<a href=”http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Restoring-Exchange-Server2003-Alternate-Hardware.html”>Restore Exchange to alternate hardware.</a>
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| August 5, 2010 1:57 PM
Disaster Recovery, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 administration, Exchange 2003 disaster recovery, HP DL380
<a href=”http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Restoring-Exchange-Server2003-Alternate-Hardware.html”>Restore Exchange to alternate hardware.</a>
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| August 5, 2010 1:57 PM
Disaster Recovery, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 administration, Exchange 2003 disaster recovery, HP DL380
upS vs gENERATORS
yeah you will need both. but the correct way is that when your main power is down then the ups will take over to sustain your power for a while before your generator will kick in
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| August 5, 2010 1:30 AM
Data center backup power, data center generator, Server Backup, Server room design
yeah you will need both. but the correct way is that when your main power is down then the ups will take over to sustain your power for a while before your generator will kick in
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| August 5, 2010 1:30 AM
Data center backup power, data center generator, Server Backup, Server room design
I have a LTO 3 tape drive that does not read my LTO2 tapes is this normal?
If the device is a certified quantum LTO3 device then the following will apply per the<a href=”http://www.quantum.com/Products/TapeDrives/LTOUltrium/LTO-3/Index.aspx”> Quantum Website</a>: Quantum LTO-3 tape drive solutions offer industry-leading performance with 800GB* of capacity on a single cartridge and backup speeds of 324GB/hr*. Backward-compatible and interchangeable with all LTO generations and manufacturers, the LTO-3 offers outstanding investment protection [...]
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| August 4, 2010 6:55 PM
LTO, LTO 3 tape library, LTO2
If the device is a certified quantum LTO3 device then the following will apply per the<a href=”http://www.quantum.com/Products/TapeDrives/LTOUltrium/LTO-3/Index.aspx”> Quantum Website</a>: Quantum LTO-3 tape drive solutions offer industry-leading performance with 800GB* of capacity on a single cartridge and backup speeds of 324GB/hr*. Backward-compatible and interchangeable with all LTO generations and manufacturers, the LTO-3 offers outstanding investment protection [...]
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| August 4, 2010 6:55 PM
LTO, LTO 3 tape library, LTO2
Restore information store using ntbackup
You must install the Exchange System Manager on the Backup Server to backup Exchange Server. It is possible to backup the Exchange Server without Exchange System Manager with the following trick: Copy ESEBCLI2.DLL from the Exchange 2003 CD into the EXCHSRVRBIN folder Add the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlBackupRestoreDLLPaths – REG_EXPAND_SZ – esebcli2 – c:exchsrvrbinesebcli2.dll. After [...]
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| August 4, 2010 6:46 PM
Backup, Backup & restore, Domain Controller, Error in NTBackup, Exchange 2003, NTBackup, Windows Server 2003
You must install the Exchange System Manager on the Backup Server to backup Exchange Server. It is possible to backup the Exchange Server without Exchange System Manager with the following trick: Copy ESEBCLI2.DLL from the Exchange 2003 CD into the EXCHSRVRBIN folder Add the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlBackupRestoreDLLPaths – REG_EXPAND_SZ – esebcli2 – c:exchsrvrbinesebcli2.dll. After [...]
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| August 4, 2010 6:46 PM
Backup, Backup & restore, Domain Controller, Error in NTBackup, Exchange 2003, NTBackup, Windows Server 2003
Automatic change VM backup name on vmware sphere
use vranger pro..
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| August 3, 2010 8:22 PM
Backup, Virtual Machine Backups, Virtual machine management, VMware error messages, VMware ESX Server, VMware vSphere
use vranger pro..
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| August 3, 2010 8:22 PM
Backup, Virtual Machine Backups, Virtual machine management, VMware error messages, VMware ESX Server, VMware vSphere
Automated backup system available to my client windows 7 workstations?
As a network administrator, you may be held responsible for all data backup purposes. It could be data from a file server, from a web server, and from workstations such as PCs and notebooks. Most users would do their own backups into external hard disks. But what if one day they forgot to backup their [...]
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| August 3, 2010 4:21 AM
Automated backup, Backup, Batch files, Windows 7, Windows 7 in 2010
As a network administrator, you may be held responsible for all data backup purposes. It could be data from a file server, from a web server, and from workstations such as PCs and notebooks. Most users would do their own backups into external hard disks. But what if one day they forgot to backup their [...]
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| August 3, 2010 4:21 AM
Automated backup, Backup, Batch files, Windows 7, Windows 7 in 2010
Is it possible to add a 2.0 USB port in the Blade Server?
What kind of blade server? What’s running on it?
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| August 2, 2010 5:51 PM
Backup, Backup server hardware, Backup server software, Blade servers, USB, USB connection
What kind of blade server? What’s running on it?
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| August 2, 2010 5:51 PM
Backup, Backup server hardware, Backup server software, Blade servers, USB, USB connection
Transactional Replication: Publisher & Subscriber size mismatch
This is normal and isn’t something to worry about. The tables on the subscriber are written in a different order than the tables were on the publisher, and the tables on the publisher probably have a lot more white space hidden through out the database file than the subscriber does.
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| August 2, 2010 5:50 PM
Hard drive space, SQL 2005, SQL Database, SQL Server, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2005 Database
This is normal and isn’t something to worry about. The tables on the subscriber are written in a different order than the tables were on the publisher, and the tables on the publisher probably have a lot more white space hidden through out the database file than the subscriber does.
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| August 2, 2010 5:50 PM
Hard drive space, SQL 2005, SQL Database, SQL Server, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2005 Database
Best practices of RAID configuration of StorEdge HDS 9960 and Oracle 10g R2
Here’s the closest thing I can find for you for best practice for <a href=”http://www.hds.com/assets/pdf/oracle-10gr2-databases-on-hitachi-nas-platform-wp.pdf “>Oracle on HDS platforms</a>.
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| July 29, 2010 8:34 PM
Database mirroring, HDS 9960, OLTP in Oracle, Oracle 10g, RAID, RAID configuration
Here’s the closest thing I can find for you for best practice for <a href=”http://www.hds.com/assets/pdf/oracle-10gr2-databases-on-hitachi-nas-platform-wp.pdf “>Oracle on HDS platforms</a>.
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| July 29, 2010 8:34 PM
Database mirroring, HDS 9960, OLTP in Oracle, Oracle 10g, RAID, RAID configuration
VMWare, Windows, Deduplication, Defragmentation: Bad combo?
Very unlikely you would be provided if such document existed. Defragmentation on SAN storage is considered a no-no even though you are performing it at the VM guest level. I think I recall a entry level windows administrator for a small construction company happen to perform disk defrag on his VM Guest Windows Server. He [...]
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| July 29, 2010 6:30 PM
Deduplication, Defragmentation, Storage in 2010, VMware
Very unlikely you would be provided if such document existed. Defragmentation on SAN storage is considered a no-no even though you are performing it at the VM guest level. I think I recall a entry level windows administrator for a small construction company happen to perform disk defrag on his VM Guest Windows Server. He [...]
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| July 29, 2010 6:30 PM
Deduplication, Defragmentation, Storage in 2010, VMware
CDP over VPN
FalconStor CDP works nicely over a WAN connectivity. In addition, you can to “optimize” the pipe between sites, you may want to put like a RiverBed on both ends which would enhance performance.
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| July 29, 2010 6:05 PM
CDP, File Synchronization, IPsec, IPsec VPN, NAS, Network Attached Storage, WAN
FalconStor CDP works nicely over a WAN connectivity. In addition, you can to “optimize” the pipe between sites, you may want to put like a RiverBed on both ends which would enhance performance.
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| July 29, 2010 6:05 PM
CDP, File Synchronization, IPsec, IPsec VPN, NAS, Network Attached Storage, WAN
Email backup on Exchange server
You will need to choose backup software and decide the backup method. We back up our Exchange server data bases to tape. Netbackup is a good application for backups but there are many others. Are you backing up other servers? Whatever you are using to back up other servers can be used for Exchange as [...]
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| July 28, 2010 3:25 PM
Backup, Backup storage, Email Backup, Exchange Backup, Exchange email archiving, Exchange Server
You will need to choose backup software and decide the backup method. We back up our Exchange server data bases to tape. Netbackup is a good application for backups but there are many others. Are you backing up other servers? Whatever you are using to back up other servers can be used for Exchange as [...]
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| July 28, 2010 3:25 PM
Backup, Backup storage, Email Backup, Exchange Backup, Exchange email archiving, Exchange Server
Backup and Recovery Of Hard Drive in Windows 7
Here’s a great video with notes from the video below it that shows you step by step on how to build such recovery tool:
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| July 27, 2010 8:10 PM
Backup, Backup and recovery software, Windows 7, windows 7 backup, Windows 7 in 2010
Here’s a great video with notes from the video below it that shows you step by step on how to build such recovery tool:
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| July 27, 2010 8:10 PM
Backup, Backup and recovery software, Windows 7, windows 7 backup, Windows 7 in 2010
Help recreating a mirror between hardware
They should have worked with the second drive in it’s original location in a reduced performance state. Just replace the failed drive with identical drive and the mirror should rebuild automatically behind the scenes.
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| July 27, 2010 3:35 PM
Hard Drive Damage, Hard drives, Mirror Driver, Mirrored Drives, Mirrored Server, Windows Server 2003
They should have worked with the second drive in it’s original location in a reduced performance state. Just replace the failed drive with identical drive and the mirror should rebuild automatically behind the scenes.
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| July 27, 2010 3:35 PM
Hard Drive Damage, Hard drives, Mirror Driver, Mirrored Drives, Mirrored Server, Windows Server 2003
How do I setup a secondary DNS server on Windows Server 2003?
Here’s the instructions straight from Microsoft how to <a href=”http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814591″>setup DNS on Windows 2003</a>. Since it’s AD-Integrated, the server would become automatically an active DNS server not just a secondary backup. Once this is setup, just configure your DHCP Server to provide this additional DNS server. Note: Only DNS servers that run on domain controllers [...]
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| July 26, 2010 11:26 PM
Active Directory, Backup, DNS, DNS Server Configuration, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Backup
Here’s the instructions straight from Microsoft how to <a href=”http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814591″>setup DNS on Windows 2003</a>. Since it’s AD-Integrated, the server would become automatically an active DNS server not just a secondary backup. Once this is setup, just configure your DHCP Server to provide this additional DNS server. Note: Only DNS servers that run on domain controllers [...]
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| July 26, 2010 11:26 PM
Active Directory, Backup, DNS, DNS Server Configuration, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 Backup
Duplicate SQL Server 2005 database
There are multiple ways. You can use a 3rd party product like XoSoft or DoubleTake. Another option could be to nightly dump your database within SQL to a centralized location where the spare server can nightly copy to a local volume for “future” use. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Another option via <a href=”http://sqldump.sourceforge.net/ “>Open Source</a> ++++++++++++ You can [...]
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| July 26, 2010 11:25 PM
Backup, Backup and restore, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2005 backup, SQL Server 2005 Database
There are multiple ways. You can use a 3rd party product like XoSoft or DoubleTake. Another option could be to nightly dump your database within SQL to a centralized location where the spare server can nightly copy to a local volume for “future” use. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Another option via <a href=”http://sqldump.sourceforge.net/ “>Open Source</a> ++++++++++++ You can [...]
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| July 26, 2010 11:25 PM
Backup, Backup and restore, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2005 backup, SQL Server 2005 Database
