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recover a single mysql database on a busy master-slave replicated system [migrated]
Looking for a strategy or tool to deal with recovering a single database to a point-in-time in a busy replicated system.
I have 12 databases running on 2 MySQL 5.0.77 servers in master-slave ...
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IRP/DRP for CentOS software RAID
We're finally trying to start doing things right by getting proper servers. We've got a HP server (With B110i but it's not being used as RAID controller) and it's running a CentOS 5 derivative with a ...
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Restoring Win2K3 R2 server with Active Directory
We have had a server in a data center for about 6 years now. A few days ago motherboard went bad. In order to get the services running back quickly, a tech team decided to place it on a new ...
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some Zimbra project planning questions
I am planning to deploy a ZCS machine in a remote DC on colocation.
Using the latest Community edition
Hardware:
2x SAS disks for OS in raid1,
8x SAS disks in raid10 for Zimbra,
32Gb RAM 8 CPU ...
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Professional Dropbox type services for DR/Backup
Should I consider these kind of cloud services for off site DR?
We are a small company currently run backup across our servers and then allow dropbox (paid version) to ensure that we have backup's in ...
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Good Linux disaster-ready filesystem?
I'm working on this emergency open wi-fi network project and it includes a local website (nginx + MySQL). In order to eliminate SPOFs, we're going to setup at least two of everything (server, switch, ...
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What happens when multiple DNS servers fail?
I'm designing a business continuity plan. The company's website uses two internally-hosted servers at two different datacenters to provide name resolution. I've been asked to add a third WHOIS ...
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Offsite network/data center for disaster recovery
I'm designing an off-site server room for disaster recovery purposes. This off-site space will house duplicates of production servers and backup systems (around 10 Windows systems in total). The ...
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Symantec Backup exec recovery test of my exchange server
I came into a new environment which runs pretty old systems. Windows Server 2003 with Exchange 2003. They backing up servers with Symantec backup exec 11d.
For compliance reason and that I can sleep ...
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Failed to Attach DB on replicated SAN
We currently have a clustered SQL Server 2005 which has replicated SAN disks for our DR solution, to test DR we break the SAN synch and then attach the various DB's on the DR server.
Our web servers ...
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How to take periodic snapshots of VMs and efficiently transport them off-site
I'm running KVM on Debian Squeeze and have VMs ranging from Debian to Windows Server 2003 to XP and W7
My plan is to move these VMs to qcow2 and use libvirt's snapshot-create to take periodic ...
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Disaster Recovery with one 2008R2 DC and a 2003R2 DC
I am working out DR scenarios and one was making me scratch my head:
Currently our domain has a 2008R2 DC and a 2003R2 DC. I know bringing restoring DCs can sometimes be harmful to an AD if others ...
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Need help with estimating required bandwidth for SAN array to SAN array replication over WAN
I have a long-term goal of setting up a DR site in a colo somewhere and part of that plan includes replicating some volumes of my EqualLogic SAN. I'm having a bit of a difficult time doing this ...
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Engineers are using explosives to remove hard rock outside our office building. What countermeasures should we take?
Our building is located approx. 100 meters from the explosive charges. They happen several times per day, and really shake the entire building a lot. This is going to go on for many days and the ...
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Restoring lost files- FAT filesystem reformatted to NTFS
I am trying to recover files from a FAT32 WinXP partition that was overwritten with a fresh XP install after if would not boot. To skip details of why it won't boot skip to the next paragraph. I was ...
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Disaster Recovery Planning, tower or rack?
I'm working on this project to develop a system with centralized information regarding emergencies delivered via open Wi-Fi on a small city.
I'm from Chile, so we thought of this system to work ...
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Ubuntu 10.04 install is missing /etc/rc0.d, is there a quickfix?
I have no idea how this happened, but /etc/rc.*/ is simply missing.
As a result, aptitude and apt-get don't work right anymore.
Is there a quick-fix for this? I really don't want to reinstall the OS ...
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Edit Hard Disk Serial Number with VMware
I'm virtualizing a Rockwell AssetCentre Server and I'm looking at Disaster Recovery scenarios. This server contains a lot of other Rockwell Software like RSLinx, Logix 5000, Logix 500, and more...
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How to move Private-Public-logs from old SBS 2003 Exchange to new intall of SBS 2003
This is what we have, a crashed SBS 2003 with Exchange 2003. The Exchange priv, pub and log files are located on another RAID array and the Exchange data is OK.
I want to install another SBS ...
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how to actually use mysql slave as soon the master is failover or got burnt
now i have mysql master-slave replication that works fine, I googled the whole net and mysql site to find the standard procedure to make use of the replication but none found. as if like admins are ...
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Physical proximity of Disaster Recovery site [closed]
We are researching a hosting company to hold our DR site. The problem is that they are in neighboring states. One host is in Herndon, Virginia. The other is in Charlotte, NC.
Are these too close ...
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How to recover data from failed Intel Matrix Storage Console rebuild process?
I have a server with 3 hard drives:
one System Drive and two drives in RAID1 for data.
Raid1 is done via Intel Storage Matrix software. Today Intel Storage Matrix said that array is degraded and must ...
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Oracle rman incremental copy
I want to use rman to sync my hot and running database onto a backup system.
The archive-logs are tranfered to another room and can be accessed any time. Image I pull the plug on both servers when ...
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MSMQ Disaster Recovery
I'm looking into utilizing MSMQ in our enterprise applications. The one area I haven't been able to find information on is with disaster-recovery.
Scenario
A fire has broken out in the server room. ...
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Full Server off-site backup for a small business
I work in a small company which is getting bigger all the time. We have out grown our old backup system (a Small NAS box and Sugar Sync) and would like to move to something better...
We currently ...
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disaster recovery plan for server migration
We are migrating from a DC and Exchange 2003 on an old Win 2003 server to Win 2008 R2 and Exchange 2010 in a virtual env.
We are worried hardware failure in our old server when we install adprep and ...
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Recovering a Hyper-V vhd from a snapshot
I'm going to leave out tons of related info that I hope isn't relevant to keep this lean - feel free to ask for detail.
My host is a Windows Server 2008 Standard SP2 (not R2). Last February we had ...
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iSCSI RAID 1 on two servers, fail scenario
Imagine I have two servers, each server has two disks in RAID 1. Now I merge the two arrays with iSCSI to one RAID 1 disk.
Two questions: Can I do the merging of the 4 disks in one go? I can't image ...
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Has anyone setup a temporary webmail server to catch emails during an outage?
I've recently been in a situation where an Exchange email server went down and we weren't able to bring it back online after 48hrs, so some incoming emails bounced. Also, users weren't able to send or ...
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Mysql data recovery
The linux machine on which we have the mysql has crashed due to a power failure. This probably caused the mysql server to crash too and we are not now able to restore/backup/export the database from ...
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Is it possible to create recovery CDs/DVDs from a recovery partition? [closed]
I recently acquired a HP laptop that has no recovery CDs or DVDs nor is there any software that will allow me to create them on the laptop. Furthermore is the laptop is infested with every imaginable ...
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When is it appropriate to run chkdsk?
A UPS failed and a Hyper-V box hosting 6 VMs went down (all Windows Server 2008 R2 x64, if it matters). When I booted back up, it did not automatically perform a chkdsk (which I have seen in the ...
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Can A Virtual Machine Be Converted to a Virtual Server e.g VMWare?
The Simple Question
Can I convert an existing VM to a Virtual Server (e.g. VMWare)? I'm using Oracle's one and only awesome product, VirtualBox, and I'm trying to setup a SharePoint Farm to ...
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Bare Metal Restore with Backup Exec 11d on Win 2003
So, I'm looking at a bare metal restore situation with my current setup. Not sure if this is possible, but looking at a hypothetical restore path to bounce off of with some Server Fault gurus ;).
As ...
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Where to start with Microsoft Exchange 2003
I am quite new to Exchange in general. I have done some server administration, but never with an Exchange box. Can someone point me in a direction that will give me a good overview and a set of best ...
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Oracle 10g Failover Database - How to fail back?
I want to know how the failover database concept works after recovery. We have defined our application to connect to a backup database in case the production database fails. If this happens, then all ...
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DNS disaster-recovery delegation issue
I'm trying to think through how to change the A record for a website I host in the context of disaster recovery.
I have the Apache and mySQL replication working, and tested locally by changing my ...
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How can I build a Linux proxy with maximum chances of recovery in case of hardware failure?
I'm ready to install our new proxy (Ubuntu LTS 10.04) and I'd like to set it up so I can recovery it easily and fast in case of any hardware failure.
I thought about using esxi and backupping the ...
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Reconstructing .bashrc from running session
I accidentally deleted my .bashrc. I still have the terminal running. What settings can I recover?
I already have the aliases (from the alias command). I assume that all ifs and cases are gone, but I ...
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Windows Server Backup for 2008 R2
When restoring a Windows Server Backup for 2008 R2, there is the option to format the drives. However, that formats them at the standard cluster size of 4K. Is there a way to change that during ...
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Restoring SQL Server 2008 R2
I am running SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. I'm using the standard backup and restore for the server portion and the native SQL Backups for the databases.
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Replicate Rackspace Cloud for Disaster Recovery?
Does anyone know how, if possible, I can replicate a Rackspace Cloud instance X to another instance, Y, for disaster recovery? So if cloud X goes down or has a problem the website will be served from ...
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Which Windows Server 2008 Backup Do I need?
I am looking at creating backups of our C: drive in case we have a major HD or OS failure... This is a web server, so I want the fastest way of restoring IIS with all the settings and all the program ...
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What is considered a disaster?
In doing research on a disaster recovery plan and trying to develop scenarios that must be accounted for, I realize that there are a number of different events that qualify as disasters. For example, ...
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Does SQL Agent need to be running in order to take manual SQL backups?
If we have a situation where SQL Agent fails to start, will we still be able to take a full manual SQL backup?
I don't mean scheduled backups and maintenance plans, just plain Right Click > Tasks > ...
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MySQL disaster and recovery plans
Can someone guide me to some articles/plans related to MySQL disaster and recovery? In this moment I run a master/slave configuration (NDB is not acceptable because is not ACID compliant).
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STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error} The initial session process or system process terminated unexpectedly
I'm encountering such an error after expanding disk space on a virtual machine using Hyper-V.
STOP: c000021a {Fatal System Error}
The initial session process or system process terminated ...
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Disaster Recovery Standby Server
I work for a small business with 25 users and 2 servers.
1 server is the DC running Windows Server 2003/Exchange 2003.
We want a reliable disaster recovery strategy for this server without having to ...
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Restore encrypted tapes with Backup Exec
I'm using Backup Exec 12 to try and restore some old tapes that were encrypted. I have a BE trial installed on an old machine trying to recover data from these old LTO4 tapes. When I attempt a ...
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Biztalk 2009 logshipping with SQL 2008
I am setting up biztalk logshipping for Biztalk 2009 database. Following http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa560961.aspx article, I am doing the following to setup biztalk logshipping on ...
