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Cleaning Hyper-V R2 unused vhd and snapshot files?
We are using Hyper-V R2 as a platform for virtualizing development and testing environment.
After month of use, with creating / deletion of many virtual machine, the vhd store is filled with a lot of ...
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One SQL, lots of SharePoint 2010 Servers, and lots of Databases to clean
I have a dedicated server running SQL server and many web servers running SharePoint 2010 installations. All the SharePoint web servers are using the same SQL server for storing/creating databases.
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How to run a program for a limited time as a specified user without leaving a trace on the linux system? [closed]
I have to run a non-trusted, third-party application on a linux server.
The program should be run as a specified user for a limited time, for example 30s.
During this period, the program can use all ...
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How to clean up the MemcacheQ db files?
My MemcacheQ is started with:
memcacheq -d -r -H /db/baamboo -N -R -L 2048 -T 300 -l 192.168.6.29 -p 22211 -u memcacheq -t 8 -m 512 -P /var/run/baamboo.pid -v
It's eating the hard disk space. Found ...
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Linux SUSE - How to clean up PATH?
By doing an echo when I am logged in as root I can see I have a lot of junk in my PATH (probably from running tests and then forgetting all about it).
What's the best way to clean it up? I am not ...
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TFS Destroy /startcleanup - how do I start the clean up manually?
I ran TFS Destroy on a file that was too long.
But I forgot to add the /startcleanup command. It is now several days later and the file is still referenced in the TFS Database (or so says my ...
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SQL Maintenance Cleanup Task Working but Not Deleting
I have a Maintenance Plan that is suppose to go through the BACKUP folder and remove all .bak older than 5 days. When I run the job, it gives me a success message but older .bak files are still ...
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SQL Maintenance Cleanup Task 'Success' But not deleting files
I have a maintenance plan setup for a databases on a server. As part of the backup is a Maintenance Cleanup Task.
SQL Version 2008
The task that 'succeeds' is setup as:
Delete backup files
Correct ...
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Linux/iptables: best way to clear all rules, leaving anything open
Currently have this snippet:
iptables -F // flush all chains
iptables -t nat -F
iptables -t mangle -F
iptables -X // delete all chains
Is there a possibility that some impervious rule will stay ...
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Freeing up space in my SVN repository
I have an SVN repository hosted on a freemium site with a maximum repository size. As I approach this capacity I am aware of files I've checked in that I know I can remove permanently to free up disk ...
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JBoss 5: $JBOSS_HOME/server/$INSTANCE/tmp cleanup
I've noticed since moving to jboss 5, tmp files for each instance are handled differently. In jboss 4, the entire directory was purged at each jboss restart. In 5, the applications are exploded to ...
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How to determine a disk consuming service in Windows 2008 server?
How to determine a disk consuming service in Windows 2008 server? I have a problem on Windows 2008 server with a constant growing used disk space? How to determine which service consuming most of the ...
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closing ssh ControlPath
I found the instructions on kerneltrap's mail archive: "scp batch mode?" to be insightful an useful, however when I issue the command to close the connection
# Bring the connection down.
ssh -S ...
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Is it safe to remove all files in the /var/log when cleaning a server's history?
I need to erase all system logs etc. from a running Debian machine that's primarily running an Apache server.
Is it safe to remove all the files in /var/log without recreating (by touching?) any of ...
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Scan HTML for unused assets in folders
I have an aging website I'm managing and I'd like to remove all unused external files (.css, .jpg, .js, etc.) that are currently in various folders all over the site.
Is there a tool out there that ...
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CentOS Insufficient space in download directory /var/cache/yum/base/packages
I was trying to yum install libpcap when I got
Error Downloading Packages:
14:libpcap-0.9.4-15.el5.i386: Insufficient space in download directory /var/cache/yum/base/packages
* free 0
* ...
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Quick-n-Easy way to remove outdated ActiveDirectory users?
We have around 70 current employees, but 178 accounts in ActiveDirectory. The prior administrators never removed old accounts, and sometimes they weren't even disabled.
As it is, I am considering ...
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How to revert the compressed attribute on files in Windows for a whole drive
Someone at my job (a sysadmin) actually performed a "cleanup" task on WinXP which at the same time compressed all the files on my HDD with the Windows compressed file attribute (Filenames get blue in ...
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HP storageworks ultrium 448
Goodday,
I have never cleaned the servers at my work but they are now running 5 times a week for 5 years.
Now they asked me to clean it with the tape that has come with it.
My qeustion is how do you ...
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Maintenance Cleanup Task(s) running 'successfully' but not deleting back up files
I have a maintenance plan setup for all my user databases on a particular server, which does all the usually things at various intervals.
The 7th and final subplan is a two stage cleanup plan; ...
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What is the best tool for visualising hard drive usage on Windows Server 2008 (Web Edition)?
I've recently been tasked with cleaning up our Windows Server 2008 (Web Edition) server's website data folder.
There are over 50 sites hosted on this particular box, so I'm looking for an easy way ...
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Too little space on a rented Windows Server 2008 virtual machine. How can I free space?
I rented a VPS / virtual machine with Windows Server 2008 with 16 GB of HDD.
The Windows install was fresh so I went on to install the automatic updates, patches etc. I soon found out that I now have ...
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Best way to Start Over on my Dreamhost server?
I have made a mess of my Dreamhost slice and want to know if there's a way to clean install/fresh install/wipe everything and start over?
Is there a shell script to do this or would I have to do it ...
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Clean up Active Directory
Does anybody know of any useful Tools of cleaning out active directory, old computers etc.
Preferably a free tool. Windows server 2003 domain.
I have a lot of devices that I know dont exist and I want ...
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Active Directory: delete vs. disable departed employees
When an employee leaves your organization, do you delete or disable their Active Directory account? Our SOP is to disable, export/purge the Exchange mailbox, and then after "some time" has elapsed ...
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My mail queue is 70000+, how can I delete outgoing
My mail queue has grown to over 70000 emails. Is there any way I can do a filtered delete to get rid of outgoing emails from the MAILER-DAEMON@ without losing any potentially valuable emails?
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Create a cleanup cd/floppy disc?
I need to be able to do the following:
Boot from said disk
delete all C:\documents and settings\jafdkjewi folders (Excepting All Users, Default User, and Select Few others)
reboot
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Symantec - Flagging every local HTML file on my computer as a virus
I just ran Symantec Anti-Virus and it's flagging literally every since HTML,PHP,ASP/ASPX file on my computer as a virus. That's nearly 600 files on my laptop.
Can this be? How can a text file ...
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How do you remove the “ffsearcher” trojan?
Does anyone have any experience in removing the ffsearcher trojan.
One of our systems is infected. The virus scanner doesn't detect it, but our websense program is detecting all the internet ...
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Cleaning Dusty Servers
Long story short, my server room is a bit ... dirty.
Just had a little construction done, and there is pretty nice layer of dust on a few systems.
From my knowledge, I can either:
Use an ...
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What is your average PC Cleanup timeframe? [closed]
What timeframe do you communicate to your customer?
How long (total time) does it take to fully clean an infected PC?
How much time do you actually spend touching the machine?
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Bad results from malware cleanup tools?
As there's already a wiki regarding cleanup tools, are there any tools that have given you negative results (i.e. made the system worse)?
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Archived and queued Windows Error Reporting
Just ran Disk Cleanup on a computer here (Windows Vista), and saw 3 items in the list I haven't seen before:
Per user archived Windows Error Repo... | 402 MB
System archived WIndows Error Repor... | ...
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Is it safe to delete files in C:\Windows\Installer?
"C:\Windows\Installer" folder found on Windows Vista is taking around 1 GB of space. Can I safely delete it?
Cheers
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Powershell script to clean the most recently used programs on the Start Menu in Vista and Windows 7
Am looking for a powershell script that cleans (removes) all the items from the most-recently used programs from the Vista/Windows 7 Start menu.
NOTE: Cleaning the items does not mean disabling the ...
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Techniques for removing orphaned programs in Windows
Inspired by the questions on removing orphaned services and force-removing windows services, what techniques do you use to remove traces of an application from Windows? Traces include things like
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What is the $hf_mig$ directory for in Windows Server 2003?
What is the $hf_mig$ directory for in Windows Server 2003 and can I delete it?
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How do I responsibly dispose of backup tapes?
Our old tape drives have failed and we not using tapes for backup anymore. We still have a stack of DLT tapes with backups which may contain sensitive information like credit card numbers, social ...
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Sugestions for cleansing PC's before recycling / disposal
What procedures do people follow before recycling or disposing of old PC's?
Do you:
Remove the hard drive
Damage it beyond repair
Use a tool to completely wipe the hard drive. If so, which?
Other
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How do I clean up the right-click context menu in Windows explorer?
Sometimes applications plug into the context menu that I get on right-click on files and folders in Windows Explorer. After some time this menu gets really messy and I just want to clean it up.
Can ...
