How to recover data from damaged USB drive?
I just accidentally sat on my USB storage stick whilst it was still in the port of my PC. It is now bent and the connections may have been damaged. My PC does not detect the USB drive. How can I recover the data on the drive?

Answer Question   |  April 18, 2013  9:57 PM
Data Recovery, USB Flash drives, USB hard drives

What is the difference between Hitachi ShadowImage, Hitachi TrueCopy and Universal Replicator?
What is the difference between Hitachi Shadow image, Hitachi True copy and Universal Replicator? What are the best scenarios where each of them can be implemented?

Answer Question   |  November 25, 2008  9:47 PM
Data Replication, Data Replication Software, Hitachi, Hitachi ShadowImage, Hitachi TrueCopy, Hitachi Universal Replicator, Mirroring, Remote data replication, Remote mirroring, Replication software

How to rebuild RAID without obstructing data migration?
I see why RAID rebuilds obstruct data migration. A RAID rebuild is NOT like backup and restore. The rebuild consumes resources, e.g. CPU etc. So if we have the RAID on a separate system (managed by its own CPU) then: Surely this allows a RAID rebuild without obstructing data migration? Do you envisage other options [...]

Answer Question   |  July 21, 2009  9:39 PM
Data migration, RAID, RAID rebuild, Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, Storage management

How do I prove that a full backup of Fi-Co when restored onto another system is a true and good copy of the source system.
Hi, during a change freeze and after a full offline backup I am restoring this backup of my current production Fi-Co system onto another server to act as a system reference before making major changes to my live production system. My question is how do I prove to my business colleagues that the restored (reference) [...]

Answer Question   |  November 30, 2008  7:43 PM
Backup, Data integrity, Fi-Co, FICO Backup & Recovery, Restore, SAP backup, SAP FICO

FileMaker Pro v8 SAN Backup
We are running a mission critical application on Filemaker. The FileMaker server, a Dell Poweredge 2650, is configured to conducts scheduled backups 5x daily. However, the backups are saved on the server itself. We want to move the backups to the SAN and conduct the backups at non peak usage times. Does anyone have any [...]

Answer Question   |  July 7, 2009  6:45 PM
Backup, Backup & recovery, Database Backup Strategies, Dell PowerEdge 2650, Filemaker Pro, FileMaker Pro 8, FileMaker Server, SAN, SAN Backup, Scheduled Backup

Lotus email archive quota
Hii i!! How we can assign space quota for Archiving of a mailbox? what happens if that space quota get fills? we are using Lotus 6.5.Plz help

Answer Question   |  November 26, 2008  6:55 AM
Disk quota management, Email storage limit, Lotus archiving, Lotus Domino 6.5, Lotus Domino 6.x, Lotus email, Lotus email archiving, Lotus email management, Lotus Notes 6.5, Lotus Notes 6.x, Lotus Notes archiving

Sysplex Split
Does anyone have experience with splitting a sysplex with isolated dasd and tape on each new plex? How do you move tape data between the new plexes efficiently? The only methods we are aware of are very awkward at best, e.g. copy tape to dasd, ftp dasd file to other plex, copy back to tape. [...]

Answer Question   |  November 24, 2008  8:29 PM
DASD, Mainframe, Plex, Sysplex, Tape Backups

Accessing a mirror database without main database failover
How can I access my mirror database on a SQL Server without a main database failover?

Answer Question   |  November 25, 2008  7:53 PM
Database Failover, Database mirroring, Failover, Mirroring, SQL Server database

exchange email messages during offline defrag
What happens during offline defrag to exchange 2003 email messages? Where do they go & do they return after defrag?

Answer Question   |  February 1, 2012  4:32 PM
Defragmentation, Exchange 2003

Replicating SAN to DR Site
We are looking to build a warm DR site across town. How are other companies managing to duplicate their data in a reasonable time to another location? We are looking to copy around 150 GB per day. We don’t need up to the minute data, up to the hour or two is acceptable.

Answer Question   |  December 1, 2008  4:21 PM
Data Replication, Disaster Recovery, Disaster recovery planning, DR, SAN, WAN

Dynamic Hard Drive – convert to basic – XP prof
Can you convert a dynamic hard drive to a basic one? If so how would you do it?

Answer Question   |  May 6, 2012  3:37 PM
Dynamic Logical Partitioning, Hard drives, Windows XP

implication of upgrade in Hard drives to 72gb from 36gb on windows NT using RAID 5
implication of upgrade in Hard drives to 72gb from 36gb on windows NT using RAID 5

Answer Question   |  November 25, 2008  1:03 PM
Hard drives, Hardware Upgrade, RAID 5, Windows NT

Backup tapes usage
when backup is running how do i check that, the backup is using which tapes drive and to ensure which ATL it’s using?

Answer Question   |  November 24, 2008  6:49 AM
ATL, Automated Tape Library, Backup, Backup & recovery, Tape Backups

Thumb drive formatting
I have a thumb drive with items saved on it. All of a sudden my computer is saying the drive is not formatted and wants to do so. How can I open the thumb drive and will I lose the information saved on it?

Answer Question   |  January 30, 2012  8:37 PM
Thumb drive, Thumb Drive Formatting, USB Flash drives

How to Change NTFS file folder permision From Remotely or By Group polices.
Hi All, I have near about 100 system in a Active Directory Domain network . and this all 100 system use in near about 150 user in deferent time . And they Save there data in Local system as well as in File server share folder. I have given right for network share folder NTFS [...]

Answer Question   |  November 21, 2008  7:28 PM
Active Directory, File permission, Group Policy, NTFS, NTFS permissions, USB security, Windows Server 2003

Combining HSM and Backups
Were looking at replacing our tape backup system, and at the same time were thinking our expending our storage by getting a HSM solution. What we are not sure of is whether these two issue should be combined. My original vision was that a good tape based HSM system (Tivoli,…) and a tape robot would [...]

Answer Question   |  November 24, 2008  1:00 PM
Apple, Apple Xserve, Backup, Backup software, Hierarchical Storage Management, HSM, MAID, Massive Array of Idle Disks, NFS, Tape Backups, Tivoli Storage Manager, Xserve

Can I backup to disk with BRMS?
Can I backup to disk with BRMS?

Answer Question   |  December 8, 2008  10:07 PM
AS/400 backup, Backup, Backup Recovery and Media Services, BRMS

iSCSI SAN Server suggestions?
We are in the process of purchasing a new SAN server. I was curious if anyone has any good or bad experience with HP, Netapp, Dell, Fujitsu or others. We will be using Exchange 2007 mostly in the environment and need something that is very expandable. Thanks

Answer Question   |  November 24, 2008  9:40 PM
Exchange 2007, iSCSI, iSCSI SAN Server, SAN, Storage management

Intercompatibility issues with Microsoft and VMware
Microsoft is saying that they won’t support VMware software: “Microsoft does not test or support Microsoft software running together with non-Microsoft hardware or virtualization software”. (Source : http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=897615.) I would take it this means that I cannot install MS exchange 2007 on VMware? Another thing that I would like is to have all OS files [...]

Answer Question   |  November 20, 2008  9:34 PM
Microsoft, Storage, Virtualization, VMware

Exchange server 2007 recovery storage group backup
Has anyone successfully restored a backup of an Exchange 2007 store/database using the Recovery Storage Group features of Exchange 2007? I keep running into issues restoring the database, not emails. Using Symantec Bakup exec 11d

Answer Question   |  November 20, 2008  6:08 PM
Backup, Backup & recovery, Exchange 2007, Exchange Backup, Exchange Backup & Restore, Recovery Storage Group, Symantec Backup Exec 11D