RMAN Retention Policy

I'm currently reviewing our company's backup strategy and in particular our retention policy. Currently, due to low disk space, we only keep the most recent backups on disk. The previous nights backup is transferred to tape and then deleted from disk before another backup is taken. Are we able to...

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Creating a new domain controller, sync then use as a backup offline active directory server

We want to create a new domain controller. Allow it to sync and then shut it down as a backup offline Active Directory server. Will this work? If we bring it up when the others can not be reached? We will update it one time a week or maybe 2 times a month.

TeachMeIT975 pointsBadges:

Automatically erase BrightStor backup tape.

Can we set brightstore to automatically erase a backup tape that is in the drive if there is data on it prior to stating the backup process?

Karl Gechlik9,860 pointsBadges:

journal entry’s entry specific data

Hi, I am trying to extract fields from security audit events. The problem comes when dealing with entry specific data field. This field contains lot of info which varies according to the entry type. Is there any API which returns information present in the entry specific data portion in a...

Pprasad1230 pointsBadges:

Alternative to EMC VisualSRM?

Could you kindly advise a competitive product against EMC VisualSRM Suite. I need to source for an alternative solution.

JenH0 pointsBadges:

How to recover deleted files of file server from client?

How to recover deleted files of file server from client, and server is not running with shadow copy??

Cdsathya5 pointsBadges:

Troubleshooting and Support for hard drive

What would you suspect when the hard drive access light turns on and off with no application running?

Dougla5 pointsBadges:

Track confidential data being input to Windows Domain computers

information being entered by any domain computer? We want to track confidential information and make sure it is not getting out of the company.

Karl Gechlik9,860 pointsBadges:

Network Management

As Enterprice network grow larger, management becomes difficult and certain tools and standards are neccesary for good network performance . I need an expert solution for network management in an Enterprise going through a similar scenario .I need help on what and how a system can be established to...

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Backing up Active Directory with two servers

We have a Active Directory and a AD2 server that replicate. Do we need to have another backup of AD or is this sufficient?

Troubleshooter24755 pointsBadges:

HP LTO2 Ultrium tape restore error

I am trying to restore a HP LTO2 Ultrium tape and keep on getting the  same error "error opening input file FM:2 Blk:10. This is followed by the next screen which states:" Expected header or filemark not found at logical 1:9" Is the tape capable of being restored, if so how?

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Add new hard drive in ESXi 4

I've installed ESXi 4 on a 40gb ATA drive.  I've also added two 1tb Hitachi SATA drives using the controller on an ASUS M4A785-M motherboard.  How do I format those two drive to make them available as datastores for virtual machines?

Glbetts5 pointsBadges:

Presenting a data store to Multiple ESX environment

I have a vSphere 4.0 environment and I have some LUNs from an EMC presented to the hosts in the vShpere environment. I have recently set up another environment with vShpere 4.1 and I would like to know if I can present the same LUNs to the new environment (vSphere 4.1) while they are still...

Nims5 pointsBadges:

Backup on V5R2 and Restore on V4R5

I have to Systems( one AS/400 running OS/400 V4R5 and An iSeries running i5/OS V5R2). Can I backup for example a file on the machine running V5R2 and restore on the one running V4R5?

RASHZENA0 pointsBadges:

Backing up a WSUS server

We want to be able to restore it to another server or even this one formatted.

Karl Gechlik9,860 pointsBadges:

Free IT Book: The Software Developer’s Career Handbook – Being Geek

This week's free IT book giveaway is Michael Lopp's The Software Developer's Career Handbook: Being Geek. Lopp hasn't written just another career book, he provides his first-hand experiences to advise on how to navigate the job life cycle. Lopp is a Silicon Valley-based engineering manager who's...

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How to connect more than one DASD to IBM mainframe

how to connect more than one dasd to ibm mainframe?

Ytyt5 pointsBadges:

Application in Visual Basic 6.0 to create path to removable disks

I am building an application where I want to put my data in a removable drive and my exe somewhere in any of the fixed drives. I can't be sure about the path to my removable drive because the letter assigned to it can change due to many reasons, like, another removable drive was inserted before...

Tataytanga5 pointsBadges:

Oracle 10g database issue

how to increase the space of mount point dev/sdc1 scsi

Chiya12335 pointsBadges:

Exchange 2010 Guest Backup

I am debating on purchasing Exchange 2007 or 2010. As of sp2 of 2007 you can do a host backup with a exchange 2007 guest and it will do the exchange back and clear the log files. My question is does exchange 2010 do the same thing? or do i have it wrong about 2007?

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