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Exchange Server 2010: move mailboxes from recoveded and mounted edb to user’s mailbox
One of our exchange servers crashed, and I am trying to recover the mailboxes.
We had 1 exchange 2003 server named "apex" and 1 exchange 2010 server named "2008Enterprise.
the exchange 2010 server ...
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How to recovery a 5TB raid 5
We have a 5TB raid 5 virtual disk cluster... I think the MBR got messed up and windows server 2003 no longer is able to view the contents of the virtual disk...
All the disk recovery software I have ...
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can i say “NO” to “Clone multiply-claimed blocks” in fsck?
I need to know if i can still mount the volume when i tell fsck "no" in that question.
i dont need to repair all the files in the volume, i just need recover one single file for this event.
the ...
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Virtual installation vs bare metal for disaster recovery
I am part of an service company that has a server solution that hosts different field software to talk to industrial alarms and such. The original implementation didn't make use of any kind of ...
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How can I create a “fail whale” for my website?
I have a website that we load-balance across a few machines. The load-balancer (a Brocade ServerIron ADX) is on the local network. I know it has the capability to configure a "backup" ip address to ...
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How to mount parition in from a working driver in RAID1
One of hard drives in array is dead, I'm unsure if it's raid0 or raid1, what I'm trying to achieve is mount the working drive and make a backup of what's left.
If I mount /dev/md127 then I can see ...
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Best Disaster Recovery Setup for Domain Controller with Additional Services
I'm setting up some new Windows 2012 servers to replace old ones currently on 2003. One of my concerns is to try and have a suitable DR plan to get them back up and running if we have a major failure. ...
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Data Recovery
I am looking for a way to recover data off a perfectly good external HDD. Not a problem usual.
The drive was being used as a backup drive for computers that I was working on during a reformat. ...
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Bare-metal recovery on dissimilar hardware [Win/Linux]? [closed]
I'm planning a disaster recovery for our servers, and have been looking at this solution. I know of Clonezilla, but it does not entirely comply to the "different hardware" part.
I could still ...
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Disaster recovery plan development best practicies or resources?
I have been tasked with leading a project regarding updating a old and somewhat onesided disaster recovery plan. For now we're just looking at getting the IT side of DR sorted out. The last time ...
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How to start MSSQL Server with corrupt model db
After moving some databases around (restoring, deleting, etc) we experienced an issue creating new databases. Specifically, When trying to create a new database MSSQL Server it failed because the "The ...
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App Fabric Cache Configuration and disaster recovery site
We have previously used App Fabric caching across several servers at the same data center. In that case we placed the configuration file on a SAN disk at that site.
We are now going to deploy an ...
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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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Transparent geographical DR website failover
We've already got webservers that are loadbalanced. And even though outages shouldn't happen, they do, for a variety of reasons. (central switch failure, misconfigured ISP routers, backbone failures, ...
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How Log shipping works on secndary Oracle DB [closed]
We are located here in Canada and have an Oracle system in Europe which we are looking to prepare a DR system. The ideal is to have the DR system here in head office (Canada) but question would be ...
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How do I recover Exchange 2007 mailboxes into Exchange 2010? [duplicate]
I'm running SBS2008, and had a catastrophic system failure that left me without a working Active Directory (the full-system backup failed to restore the AD correctly). However, it's proved impossible ...
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Recovering Exchange 2010 from only one server
We've following setup:
a) Physical server Hyper-V
Exchange 2010 CAS 1
Exchange 2010 MBX 1
b) Physical server Hyper-V
Exchange 2010 CAS 2
Exchange 2010 MBX 2
We do backups. But for the sake ...
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switching dns server providers
I'm trying to wrap my head around something that I thought I kinda understood, but clearly there's some piece missing.
We're currently using Zerigo as our primary dns, with slave dns running on ...
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AWS ElasticCache - Cross Site - Disaster Recovery
I'm using AWS ElasticCache (MemCached) and can see how instances can be created at different data centers/sites. (eg: singapore A or B)
There is no AWS Automatic Replication of ElasticCache from ...
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Exchange 2010 two nodes disaster recovery
I currently have one on-premises Exchange 2010 Std server sitting on a Windows 2008 R2 Entreprise. The server is backed-up on tape and now I've been asked to add an off-site replication for businness ...
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Out of band notification when UPS loses mains power?
We're currently looking into upgrading our UPS and possibly having a small petrol generator on site in the eventuality that the UPS battery is used long enough to drain it completely.
Realistically, ...
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Active Directory disaster recovery with DPM
I have a sort of catch-22 question here.
Suppose I'm using Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (2010 or 2012, it works the same way) to backup, amongst various other things, my Active ...
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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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Accessing data on SAS drives if server fails
If my server goes down, how can i access the data on the SAS drives?
I don't have another server to plug them into, and even then connecting the drive to a different controller (while keeping the ...
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Recovering with DDRescue Cannot Complete (write error: Read-only file system)
I'm trying to recover a corrupt VDI using vdfuse to mount the VDI and using dd_rescue to rescue the borked partition.
dd_rescue seems to be working fine but once it reached about half of the ...
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DPM Bare Metal Restore
We currently use Microsoft's Data Protection Manager (DPM) for backups in a relatively small environment, but I'm still worried about our main active directory server.
I've been thinking that it'd be ...
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What things do you look for when picking a server hosting company?
We are going through an RFP process of changing hosting companies for most of our servers (~10 fairly powerful workhorses and database servers).
When the existing company was picked I wasn't at the ...
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Windows 7 Mirrored boot drive [closed]
I'd like to use Windows native disk management to mirror the boot drive in a standalone PC.
Where can I find documentation to create a recovery disk so that I can boot off the second disk if the ...
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Problems with Outlook after Exchange 2010 “switch over” operation
We have two sites and a DAG that spans each of them. There is one CAS Array per site.
Before hurricane Sandy we proactively switched over (lossless) to the DR datacenter. There were minimal Outlook ...
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Exchange 2010 Database dirty shutdown
We experienced a power failure, after i bring the server up the Mailbox database is on a dirty shutdown state.
I've ran
eseutil /r E00
and got
PS E:\BACKUPS_MDB_EXCHANGE\Mailbox Database ...
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Uptime concerns in case of AWS outage
I am running an Elastic Load Balancer backup by 2 instances in different Availability Zones in US East. I am using Multi-AZ RDS as well. Ideally this should ensure that if one AZ goes down, it should ...
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Blackberry Outage: How can I PIN a large number of users?
We lost power due to the hurricane and need to notify BES users that services will be restored soon.
How can I extract all BES users and send them a notification message?
Also how do I alter the ...
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How to monitor how much data transfers between Exchange servers in DAG?
I recently installed a second Exchange Server (standard, 2010) to our organization as part of a Disaster Recovery solution. The two servers will soon be part of a DAG. Before placing the server at ...
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Drive cloning dd or rsync/sync via KVM
I've got a crash and the system won't boot correctly. I am getting errors like:
ata3.00: status: { DRDY }
ata3.00: status: { UNC }
What would be the best way to save the main drive to make the ...
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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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Active Directory Disaster Recovery in a Small Business
This is hypothetical question, but one I’m sure that someone must have encountered and/or given some thought to before.
Situation:
Consider this, a small business is running an Active Directory ...
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Minimum distance of backup data center from main data center? [closed]
As we know having backups at a separate data center is a good way to achieve high recover-ability in case of prolonged data center down times. But then I thought what if it's a major disaster or an ...
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If DNS Failover is not recommended, what is?
As a followup question to his very popular question: Why is DNS failover not recommended?, I think it was agreed that DNS failover is not 100% reliable due to caching.
However the highest voted ...
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DPM Disaster Recovery
I'm using Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (2010, currently evaluating 2012) to backup my environment, and I have two questions about the disaster recovery process in the event of a ...
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How do I cancel windows server 2003 repair install?
System: Windows 2003 Server Enterprise
Scenario: NTDS db is corrupt and all attempts to fix with esentutl fail.
Ran chkdsk which seemed to repair disk error and give access to the ntds.dit file but ...
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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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Virtualization for hardware resiliency?
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to pool several physical servers to run a resilient virtualization environment. Our servers are getting more and more critical to our clients and we want to do ...
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What's the possible issue when i connect an hard disk and Windows Disk Management tell me “Disk is not initialized”? [closed]
I've a disk to recover. The problem is that when i connect it via Usb to Windows, Disk Management tell me "Disk is not initialized". So i try to inizialize it flagging "MBR" or "GPT" but Windows ...
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IT lead does not have a backup, DR plan in writing
This is a general management question to IT managers out there.
We are a small firm with about 4 servers in our colo cabinent. No full time IT manager. But we do have one person on monthly contract ...
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Recover data from SCSI hard disk
We've got an old server with SCSI hard disk. The server crashed last week and it isn't exactly known what hardware component is damaged. Since the server is due to be retired anyway we don't want to ...
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Battery Backed Write Cache
I recently got some U server price quotes and some of them include BBWC:
What exactly does it do?
Is it just for RAID configurations?
If there is a power malfunction, isn't the data loss ...
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IIS recover from HD Copy
i'm here on a new server and want to recover the IIS Role, the old server is as a backup (rsync copy) on a second drive. Anyone know how to recover the IIS from a Directory?
The Server is a Windows ...
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hosted failover(proxy?) service - does it exist?
We're in the planning phase to make our web application services redundant. Right now we've got our own physical servers at a colo, running a VMWare cluster connected to an EqualLogic SAN. It's a LAMP ...
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Clone a Red Hat RAID as part of a disaster recovery plan
I am looking for recommendations to clone a Red Hat mirrored raid to a single hard drive located in the same machine. The idea is if the servers hardware ever has an issue we have a similar hardware ...
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If my RAID card fails, how likely is it to corrupt the RAID?
My RAID card does not currently have a battery installed and its write mode is set to write-through. Data is rarely written to the RAID - large batches of data come in maybe every other week. Daily ...
