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Running SpinRite on SAN attached LUN with NTFS corruption

Got a customer that has an issue with NTFS corruption that is popping up on SAN attached storage. The LUN is RAID-10 (4:1 spindle ratio). The machines are Windows Server 2003 (64-bit), and they are ...
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Why do I keep getting bad index files with Git [closed]

I keep getting the following error: error: bad index file sha1 signature fatal: index file corrupt And I know the short term solution is just to delete the index and away you go but my question is, ...
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iSCSI and NFS file locking and concurrency

I've got a linux host that need to mount a data share located on a NAS. The choice is between NFS v3 (NAS limitation) and iSCSI. The initial idea was to have a NFS mount to the file server that ...
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Linux Server HDD Corrupted

Today I put my forum offline just before scheduled Cpanel backup. An hour later when I checked it says DATABASE error occured(or whatever the database error was) I logged into SSH and perform reboot. ...
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Jenkins SVN checkout borks new files

I am running a Jenkins CI server which polls an SVN server and checks out the (Maven) project and builds it. We have recently changed the build server and I set up Jenkins afresh with the few ...
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Escape windows repair install and start in normal boot?

I have a corrupted file in the OS (running a poweredge t410, windows server 2003 RT). Booting up in safe mode shows it stopped at acpitabl.dat. Google results led me to believe that the update.sys ...
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File Possibly Corrupted [closed]

I have a question on another stackexchange site and it was mentioned that my file might be corrupt. Is there a way to verify this? I have access to mac/windows and the file will not open on either ...
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win2008r2: Delete corrupted directory without reboot

I have a recurring annoying issue on one of my Windows 2008 R2 Web edition servers. The drive in question happens to be a SSD, though I doubt that is relevant. I have a script that I run when I want ...
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Why did I experience checksum errors with a ZFS filesystem on an ESXi RDM?

I have a VMware ESXi 4.1 server which I recently added 2x1TB SATA drives to. This machine runs a NexentaStor Community VM which hosts ZFS filesystems. Before adding the new drives, all the ZFS zpools ...
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MySQL Corrupt Table - No Space left - Index File too big

I noticed that one of my servers was running out of disk space, due to heavy MySQL usage. I stopped everything using the database, freed up some space and restarted mysqld. Now, I checked my table ...
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MySQL: Increased buffer pool, ibdata1 corrupt?

I tried increasing innodb_buffer_pool_size via my.cnf from default 128m to 256m, but on restart attempt, mysql shutdown failed with: 130125 11:49:55 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 256.0M ...
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recover corrupted directory from ext3 partition

It's my mounted directory that i want to restore folder ostani. it's containt many php, css, js and etc files. how can i access. I use dd_rhelper for create an image and try to fsck to repair it. but ...
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Making SD card corruption-proof

My embedded linux device uses an SD card for saving certain diagnostics data, far too copious for internal flash. The problem is if the device is switched off unexpectedly, the filesystem (FAT32) on ...
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MySQL Tweaking for performance

[mysqld] myisam_repair_threads=4 key_buffer = 64M myisam_sort_buffer_size = 32M join_buffer_size = 2M read_buffer_size = 2M sort_buffer_size = 2M read_rnd_buffer_size = 2M table_cache = 1024 ...
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How can I prevent silent corruption on a dying hard drive? [closed]

With a drying drive (that has more and more bad sectors), on an ext4-journaled partition, a cp operation will sometimes complete without error, but the written data will either be wrong, or just won't ...
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ran fsck on a mounted partition, now centos 5 won't boot

Yes, I very stupidly ran fsck on a mounted parition. Immediate regret. What's happening now is I see grub, it starts booting centos 5, then it says: bin/sh: ro: no such file or directory kernel ...
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mdadm rebooted, array missing? can't assemble?

Not sure what is going on with my Array. I rebooted ubuntu 12.04.1 and got a error on startup that fstab couldn't mount the filesystem UUID I have for my mdadm array. After running a few commands a I ...
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Corrupt mysql system tables

I am having issues with the columns_priv table in the mysql system database. I cannot add new users currently. I have tried repairing it using mysqlcheck --auto-repair --all-databases --password but ...
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Why would an ext3 filsystem be rolled back on a Debian VM running in VirtualBox after loss of power to the host

A Debian Virtual machine runs as a Guest VirtualBox VM. It's filesystem is EXT3. The host system loses power and after booting up the host system and guest VM, I find that the VM's filesystem has been ...
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Recover from a corrupted couchbase install

We have a couchbase installation on a Windows 2008 R2 server that got corrupted (this was from before my tenure, now I want to clean it up). There is no add-remove entry in the Programs and Features ...
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How can I track down the cause of ext3 filesystem corruption?

We have a VMware vSphere 5 environment running CentOS 5.8 virtual machines. In the past two weeks we have had five incidents of virtual machines having a filesytem become corrupt, requiring an fsck to ...
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Corrupt label; bad magic number

While trying to install Solaris 10 on a Sun Blade 2500 Silver, I got an error: OpenBoot indicates me a problem with the hard drive: "Corrupt label; bad magic number". Later, during the Solaris ...
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How to store data on a machine whose power gets cut at random

I have a virtual machine (Debian) running on a physical machine host. The virtual machine acts as a buffer for data that it frequently receives over the local network (the period for this data is ...
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Single file changed: intrusion or corruption?

rkhunter reported a single file change on a virtual server (netstat binary). It didn't report any other warning. The change was not the result of a package upgrade (I reinstalled it and the checksum ...
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Which is more durable? MyISAM or InnoDB with innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=0 [closed]

I am trying to determine the difference in durability between MySQL's MyISAM and InnoDB when innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=0. I am aware of the some of the benefits of InnoDB with ACID. However, ...
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iSCSI no longer recognizing NAS drives

I have two NAS (Seagate Black Armors) connected to our network through iSCSI to a Dell Optiplex 760 running 32-bit Windows 7 and Windows iSCSI Initiator. For some unknown reason, within the last week ...
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mysql.proc has gone corrupt. How can I fix it?

I have a server running Debian 5.0, and MySQL. Suddendly, MySQL stopped working, and after many attempts to fix it, I decided to reinstall it. I installed MySQL 5.1.63, and when started it goes to ...
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Corrupt qcow2 image

I seem to have corrupted my qcow2 image. I accidentally ran qemu-img create on one of my virtual machines while running. What seems to have happened is that qemu-img seems to have put a new tag on top ...
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strange usb file system corruption

We have a few X7DBT Supermicro motherboards that is using a Kingston DataTraveler 102 USB Flash Drive as a boot drive. The customer had 10 systems and they say that the site had a power failure. Once ...
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How to test integrity of user profile?

A customer of ours was having problems with our application. Eventually they let us know that their user profile was corrupted and creating a new user profile fixed the problem. For future calls, I'm ...
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How do I diagnose network corruption on an Internet path?

I run a few hosts on network A that make requests to servers (which I don't own) on network B, somewhere across the Internet. Unfortunately, many of these requests get corrupted. If I make the ...
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Cannot Hibernate - Power policy manager error [closed]

I run Windows XP. When I try to "Enable Hibernation" from Control Panel --> Power Options, I get the following error. Power policy manager unable to reserve hibernate file. The file or ...
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Windows Server 2008 repair logonui.exe

I'm fairly certain some data on my server got corrupted and from a dialog box that popped up I think one of the things that got corrupted is logonui.exe I think this because while the server goes ...
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how to send a corrupt netbios packet

I want to send a corrupt netbios Session Service packet to my machine, My goal it to check whether my machine restarts or not upon receiving the corrupt netbios packet (this has happened before and I ...
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Strategies for detecting corruption in Greyhole pools [closed]

Are there any good strategies for proactively detecting data corruption in a Greyhole pool. Suppose the following chain of events happens. c:\> copy swiss_bank_account.txt ...
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MySql crash: Incorrect key file for table

We have a MySql 5.5 database running InnoDB on Linux. One table (named table_search) is running MyISAM to be able to perform full text searches. The table has 823 368 rows. Yesterday we had a server ...
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Weird file corruption when using FTP. Any theories?

Sometimes when I'm uploading a large number of small files via FTP, some of the files' contents will be replaced with FTP control messages. For example, after uploading a website I'll notice that an ...
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Moving files with batch files from one pc to a server, to a another pc - worried about disk corruption

I use scheduled tasks that calls a batch file, that calls more batch files to move about three files from a pc, to a server, then to multiple other pcs. It all happens very quickly, as they are small ...
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logfile deleted on Oracle database how to re-create it?

For my database assignment we were looking into 'database corruption' and I was asked to delete the second redo log file which I have done with the command: rm log02a.rdo this was in the ...
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Detecting data corruption so we're not backing up corrupt files

I've been thinking about data integrity, I currently backup about 2tb of data and always have one backup of data from a year ago. My concern is if a file became corrupt on our production file server ...
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how safe are FS recovery operations?

I just needed to do a recovery of a vserver after a failed update. Because the scope of the affected files wasn't exactly known, I completely restored most directories, except /home which was not ...
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CentOS Superblock corruption?

I'm on CentOS 5.2 and I'm having a problem booting my two database servers. Our IT department performed a SAN upgrade over the weekend and now I can't boot - they say the upgrade went fine but ...
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NTFS error 55 after rebooting a Windows 2008 Web Server

This one really drives me around since a year or so: Having a public Windows 2008 Web Server (behind a firewall) that runs perfectly smooth, I have lots of troubles when rebooting this server (e.g. ...
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Corrupt files' contents, while FS is OK

Looks like my USB HDD is old and corrupted: rsync: read errors mapping "path/to/file.jpg": Input/output error (5) Syslog: kernel: [58927.940676] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code kernel: ...
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Outlook 2010 clients corrupts every .pst archive opened

We have got an installation of Outlook 2010 that corrupts every .pst archive opened with it, except for a newly created test archive which only had one mail in it. All archives cannot be opened and ...
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Corrupted RDP Certificate

One of our machines crashed earlier, so I connected to it to find out what the issue was. It has been spitting out the following error in the logs for the past couple of days apparently... The RDP ...
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md5sum of large files gives different results sometimes

I have an AMD quad core, 8 gb RAM, 1 SSD EXT2 (2 months old), 2 HDD EXT4, approximately 1 year old. I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 x86-64 and when I compute the md5sum of large files (9 GB) sometimes I get ...
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Prevent data corruption on ext4/Linux drive on power loss

I have some embedded boards running American Megatrends bios with embedded linux as the OS. The problem I have is that the industrial flash ide's will be corrupted on power loss. I have them ...
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MySQL table keeps corrupting, need a simple fail over solution?

One of my clients servers recently crashed at the planet, we got an automatic email from them that they had to do a hard reboot. Since then mysqld stops running occasionally and then shopping cart ...
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Intermittent javascript download issue

I posted this question on stackoverflow, then it was suggested I try here, as it seems it could be a server issue. After having no issues on my development xampp box, once I put my site live onto my ...

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