Tracking IOPS in Netware 6.5
Investigate SNMP on NetWare 6.5. Use some of the tools found at * http://www.snmplink.org/ * http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/appnote/17494.html SNMPUTIL.EXE is a command line utility (included with the Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 resource kits) that allows the querying of MIB information from a network device. Most of the SNMPUTIL command lines below should work, although depending on [...]
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| April 8, 2009 8:31 PM
IOPS, Netware 6.5, SAN
Investigate SNMP on NetWare 6.5. Use some of the tools found at * http://www.snmplink.org/ * http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/appnote/17494.html SNMPUTIL.EXE is a command line utility (included with the Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0 resource kits) that allows the querying of MIB information from a network device. Most of the SNMPUTIL command lines below should work, although depending on [...]
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| April 8, 2009 8:31 PM
IOPS, Netware 6.5, SAN
LCR vs SCR
Here is a <a href=”http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/06/28/445538.aspx”>good article</a> for you. <a href=”http://exchangeexchange.com/blogs/joel.stidley/archive/2007/10/16/what-do-you-get-when-you-add-lcr-ccr-scc-and-scr-a-very-confused-it-manager.aspx”>Here is another.</a>
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| April 8, 2009 5:54 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange Backup & Restore, Exchange Disaster Recovery, LCR, SCR
Here is a <a href=”http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2007/06/28/445538.aspx”>good article</a> for you. <a href=”http://exchangeexchange.com/blogs/joel.stidley/archive/2007/10/16/what-do-you-get-when-you-add-lcr-ccr-scc-and-scr-a-very-confused-it-manager.aspx”>Here is another.</a>
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| April 8, 2009 5:54 PM
Exchange 2007, Exchange Backup & Restore, Exchange Disaster Recovery, LCR, SCR
Access rights for Storage Team members
The Domain Backup Operators Groups is already available in AD. A member of the domain backup operators group can backup and restore files to any computer on the domain. They also have the ability to login locally to domain servers. To restore Exchange data, they would also need to be Full Exchange Administrators. But if [...]
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| April 8, 2009 2:38 AM
Access Rights, Disaster Recovery, SAN, Storage Engineer, Storage management, User authentication
The Domain Backup Operators Groups is already available in AD. A member of the domain backup operators group can backup and restore files to any computer on the domain. They also have the ability to login locally to domain servers. To restore Exchange data, they would also need to be Full Exchange Administrators. But if [...]
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| April 8, 2009 2:38 AM
Access Rights, Disaster Recovery, SAN, Storage Engineer, Storage management, User authentication
What are your top 3 reasons for archiving data?
1. To Improve system response times 2. To remove stale / expired data 3. To reduce the requirement for storage hardware ————————- 1. Reuse old order numbers because we run out. 2. Make sure all data is backed up 3. Reduce file size and query times
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| April 8, 2009 2:22 AM
Archiving, Backup, Data archiving, Online Backup
1. To Improve system response times 2. To remove stale / expired data 3. To reduce the requirement for storage hardware ————————- 1. Reuse old order numbers because we run out. 2. Make sure all data is backed up 3. Reduce file size and query times
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| April 8, 2009 2:22 AM
Archiving, Backup, Data archiving, Online Backup
vranger backups
I found the answer. We did not update the scheduled task after updating the version of vranger. We had the logic wrong. With the help of their support I re-wrote the scheduled task script and now everything is working again without this error. Thankfully they are moving away from using windows scheduled task in the [...]
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| April 7, 2009 8:13 PM
Backup, VMware, vRanger Pro
I found the answer. We did not update the scheduled task after updating the version of vranger. We had the logic wrong. With the help of their support I re-wrote the scheduled task script and now everything is working again without this error. Thankfully they are moving away from using windows scheduled task in the [...]
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| April 7, 2009 8:13 PM
Backup, VMware, vRanger Pro
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager or Veritas NetBackup?
Really depends on what your needs are and what system you perfer working with. We currently use both. The GUI interface of Netbackup is easier to use and navigate to me as far as administration from the server side. I know next to nothing about working on the server side of TSM, we have another [...]
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| April 7, 2009 8:00 PM
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, IBM TSM, Storage management, Storage SaaS, Storage Software as a Service, Tivoli Storage Manager, Veritas NetBackup
Really depends on what your needs are and what system you perfer working with. We currently use both. The GUI interface of Netbackup is easier to use and navigate to me as far as administration from the server side. I know next to nothing about working on the server side of TSM, we have another [...]
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| April 7, 2009 8:00 PM
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, IBM TSM, Storage management, Storage SaaS, Storage Software as a Service, Tivoli Storage Manager, Veritas NetBackup
restore MBR
Throw your installation disk into the drive (XP Vista or 2003) Start like you are going to do another installation. But don’t worry we won’t. If you have the recovery console installed you can just boot to that and skip to the FIXMBR command. On the first screen of the Windows Setup program, select “R” [...]
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| April 7, 2009 4:35 PM
Master Boot Record (MBR), MBR, MBRbatch
Throw your installation disk into the drive (XP Vista or 2003) Start like you are going to do another installation. But don’t worry we won’t. If you have the recovery console installed you can just boot to that and skip to the FIXMBR command. On the first screen of the Windows Setup program, select “R” [...]
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| April 7, 2009 4:35 PM
Master Boot Record (MBR), MBR, MBRbatch
Exchange Server 2003 failover
I’ve used a software called XoSoft HA Exchange. This will replicate your production Exchange to your standby server. You can test failover with the software. I highly recommend this software.
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| April 7, 2009 4:09 PM
Backup, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 administration, Exchange 2003 Backup, Exchange 2003 disaster recovery, Exchange 2003 failover, Exchange Disaster Recovery, Windows Server 2003
I’ve used a software called XoSoft HA Exchange. This will replicate your production Exchange to your standby server. You can test failover with the software. I highly recommend this software.
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| April 7, 2009 4:09 PM
Backup, Exchange 2003, Exchange 2003 administration, Exchange 2003 Backup, Exchange 2003 disaster recovery, Exchange 2003 failover, Exchange Disaster Recovery, Windows Server 2003
Data recovery on Windows XP external drive
You can try with some tools from <a href=”http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/”>OnTrack </a>like the Easy Recovery —————————————— There are many software based recovery tools available. I have used R-Studio and others for bad/corrupt disk recovery. I like ones that make an image of the disk first, use that for the recovery and restore to a separate location preserving [...]
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| April 7, 2009 3:48 PM
Backup & recovery, Disaster Recovery, Recovery, USB hard drives, Windows XP
You can try with some tools from <a href=”http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/”>OnTrack </a>like the Easy Recovery —————————————— There are many software based recovery tools available. I have used R-Studio and others for bad/corrupt disk recovery. I like ones that make an image of the disk first, use that for the recovery and restore to a separate location preserving [...]
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| April 7, 2009 3:48 PM
Backup & recovery, Disaster Recovery, Recovery, USB hard drives, Windows XP
New to AS400 administration and need some help.
For the first question, I hate printers. So on the second question, take a look at the special authorities in the operators user profile, I believe you need to have *service and/or *savsys.
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| April 6, 2009 2:09 PM
Auditing, Availability, Backup & recovery, Capacity planning, DataCenter, Hardware, Help Desk, i5, IBM, Installation, Integration with other platforms, Integration/Connectivity, iSeries, Logical partitions, Mainframe, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Operating systems, OS/400, PC/Windows Connectivity, Performance/Tuning, Printing, PTFs, Remote access, Reporting, Security, Security management, Server consolidation, Servers, System monitoring, Tech support, Technical support, tips and tricks, Tools
For the first question, I hate printers. So on the second question, take a look at the special authorities in the operators user profile, I believe you need to have *service and/or *savsys.
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| April 6, 2009 2:09 PM
Auditing, Availability, Backup & recovery, Capacity planning, DataCenter, Hardware, Help Desk, i5, IBM, Installation, Integration with other platforms, Integration/Connectivity, iSeries, Logical partitions, Mainframe, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Operating systems, OS/400, PC/Windows Connectivity, Performance/Tuning, Printing, PTFs, Remote access, Reporting, Security, Security management, Server consolidation, Servers, System monitoring, Tech support, Technical support, tips and tricks, Tools
can’t find the parent object of a security group
You can try and solve it in several ways. First of all did you try and check if the C$ or any other share on the C: drive contains permissions for this group? Make a backup of the folder so in case of failure you can restore everything and, above all, the permissions. After having [...]
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| April 4, 2009 4:24 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory security, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Windows, NTFS
You can try and solve it in several ways. First of all did you try and check if the C$ or any other share on the C: drive contains permissions for this group? Make a backup of the folder so in case of failure you can restore everything and, above all, the permissions. After having [...]
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| April 4, 2009 4:24 PM
Active Directory, Active Directory security, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Windows, NTFS
Commands for system backup
1. Run ENDSBS *ALL 2. Check QSYSOPR messages until you get the message that the system is in restricted state. 3. Run GO SAVE 4. Option 21 Make sure you initialize your tape first. This will backup your entire system.
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| April 4, 2009 8:24 AM
AS/400 backup, AS/400 commands, Backup, System backups
1. Run ENDSBS *ALL 2. Check QSYSOPR messages until you get the message that the system is in restricted state. 3. Run GO SAVE 4. Option 21 Make sure you initialize your tape first. This will backup your entire system.
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| April 4, 2009 8:24 AM
AS/400 backup, AS/400 commands, Backup, System backups
Backup job hanging Backup Exec 12.5 Exchange 2003
Check for updates, and call Symantec support, it was a known problem in previous versions. Also make sure the server that it is stopping on has the latest version of the remote client installed with the option required to backup the specific data on that server, like the AD or exchange option. What server is [...]
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| April 4, 2009 1:19 AM
Backup, Backup Exec, Backup Exec 12.5, Exchange 2003
Check for updates, and call Symantec support, it was a known problem in previous versions. Also make sure the server that it is stopping on has the latest version of the remote client installed with the option required to backup the specific data on that server, like the AD or exchange option. What server is [...]
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| April 4, 2009 1:19 AM
Backup, Backup Exec, Backup Exec 12.5, Exchange 2003
Sata drive hijacking the boot process?
Windows is having problems detecting and finding a driver for the SATA device. Does safe mode work for you? You might have to reinstall the OS using option F6 to install the SATA driver on the OS first.
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| April 2, 2009 2:43 AM
IDE, SATA, SATA Hard Drive
Windows is having problems detecting and finding a driver for the SATA device. Does safe mode work for you? You might have to reinstall the OS using option F6 to install the SATA driver on the OS first.
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| April 2, 2009 2:43 AM
IDE, SATA, SATA Hard Drive
SATA hard drive, unable to get it to work in my computer.
If it works on another computer and not this one then you may have a motherboard issue. Can you update the firmware on the drive or the motherboard? Are there errors showing in your event logs? If so what are they? Can you run diagnostics on the system? Was this a personally built computer or [...]
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| April 1, 2009 3:42 PM
Hard drives, SATA, SATA hard drives, Serial ATA
If it works on another computer and not this one then you may have a motherboard issue. Can you update the firmware on the drive or the motherboard? Are there errors showing in your event logs? If so what are they? Can you run diagnostics on the system? Was this a personally built computer or [...]
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| April 1, 2009 3:42 PM
Hard drives, SATA, SATA hard drives, Serial ATA
what policy for handling and disposal of files and removable media throught the company
Our company simply destroys the hard drives and tapes that we no longer need. It is difficult to completely clear a hard drive of residual data. There are a few companies that offer certified solutions to clean the disks, but those can be expensive. Although this may seem to do the job (use of a [...]
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| April 1, 2009 3:06 PM
Data Retention Policy, IT Policy, Removable Media, Removable storage
Our company simply destroys the hard drives and tapes that we no longer need. It is difficult to completely clear a hard drive of residual data. There are a few companies that offer certified solutions to clean the disks, but those can be expensive. Although this may seem to do the job (use of a [...]
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| April 1, 2009 3:06 PM
Data Retention Policy, IT Policy, Removable Media, Removable storage
USB 1.0 to connect to a USB 2.0 external hard drive
Have you tried connecting a USB 2 drive to the old laptop? You should find that most, if not all, USB 2 storage devices are also USB 1 compatible. I frequently come across this situation and do one of two things … connect a USB 2 drive to the USB 1 port and start copying, [...]
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| April 1, 2009 12:21 AM
Backup, External hard drives, USB hard drives
Have you tried connecting a USB 2 drive to the old laptop? You should find that most, if not all, USB 2 storage devices are also USB 1 compatible. I frequently come across this situation and do one of two things … connect a USB 2 drive to the USB 1 port and start copying, [...]
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| April 1, 2009 12:21 AM
Backup, External hard drives, USB hard drives
CHKDSK and Mirrored Drives
CHKDSK doesn’t actually check the disk. It checks the volume which is carved out of a logical disk which is presented to windows. In the case of a mirror it would only check for bad sectors on the active disk, assuming that the RAID controller only allows for reads from one of the disks in [...]
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| March 31, 2009 6:52 PM
CHKDSK, Microsoft Windows, Mirrored Drives
CHKDSK doesn’t actually check the disk. It checks the volume which is carved out of a logical disk which is presented to windows. In the case of a mirror it would only check for bad sectors on the active disk, assuming that the RAID controller only allows for reads from one of the disks in [...]
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| March 31, 2009 6:52 PM
CHKDSK, Microsoft Windows, Mirrored Drives
Microsoft Virtualization live expert chat: 3/31, 11:00 am EST
Chat starts in 1 hour you can <a href=”http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/microsoft-virtualization-chat/”>view it here</a>
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| March 31, 2009 1:57 PM
DataCenter, Exchange, Microsoft Windows, Security, Storage, Virtualization
Chat starts in 1 hour you can <a href=”http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/microsoft-virtualization-chat/”>view it here</a>
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| March 31, 2009 1:57 PM
DataCenter, Exchange, Microsoft Windows, Security, Storage, Virtualization
Downgrading Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 to 11D?
First of all make sure you backup all of your data and that you verify that you can restore and use it. Next uninstall 12.5 and make sure to remove all the data. If you do not this will cause more problems for you shortly. Find your install copy of 11D and install it. Once [...]
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| March 30, 2009 10:06 PM
Backup, Downgrade Symantec Backup Exec, Symantec Backup Exec, Symantec Backup Exec 11D, Symantec Backup Exec 12.5
First of all make sure you backup all of your data and that you verify that you can restore and use it. Next uninstall 12.5 and make sure to remove all the data. If you do not this will cause more problems for you shortly. Find your install copy of 11D and install it. Once [...]
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| March 30, 2009 10:06 PM
Backup, Downgrade Symantec Backup Exec, Symantec Backup Exec, Symantec Backup Exec 11D, Symantec Backup Exec 12.5
