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Diagnosing permission problems with Cobian Backup to network share
I'm running the latest Cobian 11. I have a Synology DS412 NAS. All of my machines (Mac and Windows) access this just fine when I'm logged in and I browse to it manually.
I have Cobian installed as a ...
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Web server keeps going down, how can I find out whats causing it?
I am pretty new to running a VPS. I am using http://www.pingdom.com/ to monitor my server and notify me when its down.
What is the process I should go through to determine why is causing the server ...
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Diagnosing Random Network Lag
I'm having trouble diagnosing some random lag on a 6 server LAMP cluster serving a MediaWiki site. While we're serving some 100 pages/sec the servers themselves are running fine with less than 0.5 ...
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How to troubleshoot a hanging Linux machine [closed]
There is this popular job interview question:
Given a machine hangup (let's say RHEL) how do you trouble shoot the problem?
My answer would be:
1) I'd use (what is the name of that server BIOS ...
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Server Crash Diagnosis…Are there any 'black box recorder' style programs available
My redhat server is crashing every three weeks or so at 4:15am ish on Sunday mornings.
(well it was sundays the last two have been Thursday mornings at 4:15ish)
Looking at the logs (mysql, httpd, ...
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What diagnostic information can I give my system administrator to help him diagnose the cause of slow performance on Windows XP?
I'm not a sysadmin, but a developer. Lately, my colleagues and I have all seen a big slowdown in the performance of our Windows XP machines, especially the laptops. In fact, performance is so bad on ...
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Hard drive fail - How to regain confidence on the drive or make some use of it
After a hard drive fail (lots of corrupted sectors) I reformat it, but the drive give me no confidence to use it in production.
Is there a tool to stress test so I know I can use it?
In which ways ...
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What's the best way to track Jitter and Packetloss
I need to track Jitter and Packet Loss over a MPLS line. What's the most accurate way to capture this information without interfering with the data being sent back and forth?
Is SmokePing the best ...
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Free Tools for Hard Drive Diagnostics [closed]
Are there any free tools available to perform hard drive diagnostic?
I have an old 3.5 IDE Samsung HDD which I use as an external drive through USB connection. I recently started to have problems with ...
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How to troubleshoot hanging linux server
I have several Ubuntu Server 8.04 machines at a remote location. Every couple of months or so, one of them would stop responding and need to be power cycled. From looking at my log files it seems that ...
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How to troubleshoot Windows? Post your checklist
There is sometimes a situation when Windows suddenly goes crazy: is slow, unresponsive, some things don't work, it crashes. I wonder how do you approach diagnosing those issues.
I'm merely a ...
