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How to reduce or shrink the MFT (Master File Table)?
I have a dedicated windows server 2003 with more than 3 millions of files, recently I created a new partition to separate the website files from the OS.
Later I reduced the site of the OS with some ...
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Do I really need the PHP maxlifetime hourly cron job? [closed]
On my Debian Wheezy, every half-hour a cron job runs:
find /var/lib/php5/ -depth -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -ignore_readdir_race -cmin +$(/usr/lib/php5/maxlifetime) ! -execdir fuser -s {} ...
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Ubuntu maintenance general advice
I'm a developer by trade but I've been asked to maintain our Ubuntu servers and am in need of some general advice as I don't really have any experience in this area...
Does apt-get upgrade only ...
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How Serviceable are Tape Drives?
I'm contemplating an auto-loading tape drive as part of a backup strategy. This would be my first experience with tape backup. The cost-effectiveness of tape drives seems to depend on the assumption ...
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Nginx: maintenance mode with “is a developer” check
It's much variants described in Internet how to display maintenance page with nginx. But I didn't find the solution to check if user is a developer and not to display maintenance page for developers.
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What is the ibdata1 file in my /var/lib/mysql directory?
Logging in to my Webmin control panel, I noticed that virtually all of my disk space is full. I searched for the ten largest files/ directories on my system and found that a file called ibdata1 is ...
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Tomcat behind Apache: redirect everything to maintenance except one
I need to redirect all requests to a maintenance page except a specific URL that could still give me the possibility to access the normal website.
I googled but I did not find anything.
Right now I ...
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What Data Center room routine maintenance tasks should be done?
Beyond the work done "inside" equipment (administration, programming, network config) there exists physical equipment and rooms. This physical room equipment needs care and feeding as well on a ...
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windows 7 - sql server 2012 - Maintenanace Cleanup Task
My Team Foundation Server creates backups. I want to clear backups that are older than 5 days. Create Maintenanace Cleanup Task in Maintenance Plans of Management of Sql Server 2012. Point there ...
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what can I do when the server refused to connect by ssh
I have a server running well before but today I can not ssh to it, it shows me:
ssh: connect to host 10.0.0.117 port 22: Connection refused
I guess something is wrong with it but I can not log onto ...
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Gentoo maintenance [make updating]
I have installed and adjusted Gentoo distro with GNOME-3.1. To achieve this installation I had to add many-many lines to package.accept_keywords. Now (after a couple of months) I've decided to update ...
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Warn users that the server is under maintenance
From time to time, an OpenERP production server needs some maintenance: upgrading a few modules, probably having a server restart.
My issue is, I would like to have a way to stop regular users to ...
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Daemon to manage maintenance scripts
I have a bunch of "night shift scripts" to maintain a server. The problem is, the "action window", when those scripts may run is always different. Sometimes there's nothing going on for minutes and ...
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Resize Debian in VirtualBox [closed]
I have a VM with one HD of size 3GB and I'd like to enlarge its HD to 7GB.
So I execute this command on the host (while guest is shutdown):
VBoxManage modifyhd debian.vdi --resize 7168
Then I run ...
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Failed Simple Maintenance Plan only when Full Backups do not run
Let me start off that I'm new to SQL administration and have inherited an older server that serves the main DB for our day in/out operations. So, my apologies in advanced to my beginner questions.
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How to set only specific nginx server block into maintenance mode programmatically
I am looking for a solution to automate one of our application's deployment process. In the beginning of deployment, I would like to programmatically set the specified server into maintenance mode and ...
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set all apache sites offline with temporary static cached original pages
I would like to set all virtualhosts on my server down for maintenance for some time.
The temporary page should contain something like
sorry, the page www.xxx.com is down for maintenance. you ...
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Visual way/program to show is hosts/servers are up [closed]
My company manages a number of sites and if their servers or firewalls go down we need to know, what we'd really like is something that pings the host every few minutes and shows on screen if they are ...
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Is there a practical server host naming convention? [closed]
To maintain many servers, how do you give a name to your servers?
By only server's hostname, I would like to classify the server's kind of service, whether virtual machine or not, stages(alpha, beta, ...
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Find files/folders that are filling up disk space [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I determine what is taking up so much space?
I just had an old server go belly up because it ran out of drive space. I am logged in to the shell, and I'm trying ...
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Multiple Server Reboots / Server Maintenance [closed]
During our server maintenance events, we may reboot a group of servers (possibly a hundred or more) at a time to pick up security patches or other software updates. Sometimes these reboots have to be ...
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What are these tmp directories for? And IF can they be eliminated, HOW?
I should have included the fact that none of these files are visible from Windows Explorer, and only show when looking for *.tmp at the command line.
AND they don't seem to be possible to delete.
I ...
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How to take a redirected web application offline temporarily
How can I take a redirected web application offline such that the user sees the page only for scheduled maintenance and not when the server has just crashed, or is otherwise unavailable?
As I ...
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Solaris 11: image packaging repository svc:/application/pkg/server remains in state “maintenance” (mounted as iso)
On my Solaris 11 machine, svc:/application/pkg/server is always in the state maintenance:
$ svcs -l svc:/application/pkg/server
fmri svc:/application/pkg/server:default
name image ...
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Redirect all traffic regardless of port or protocol to temporary page
I have a server with multiple domains. Both http (apache) traffic and http-alt (tomcat) traffic.
If/when I take the server down, I'd like to be able to redirect people to a temporary 'undergoing ...
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How can I have Apache display a static maintenance page for all but certain users?
I need to be able to put our site into maintenance mode, excepting certain users to allow for QA/Dev to be able to test changes to the site/database during the maintenance mode.
The problem is that ...
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Filesystem check on ext3, debian
How can I perform a filesystem check on ext3 partition on linux? I am looking for a solution that check every file on the filesystem that is it accessible.
UPDATE:
I would run it on a server without ...
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Maintenance plan on databases fail because of file level locking on db's
We are running a shared SQL server with a maintenance plan that is scheduled to run every night. The maintenance plan does reindexing on all db's but the maintenance plan now throws an error because ...
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Automating enabling and disabling specific services for brief maintenance windows
For short periods of time (generally measured in seconds or minutes), I need to enable ftp (vsftpd) access on a webserver hosting WordPress so that plugins, themes, etc can be updated via the WP ...
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Hot Swap Ultra320 SCSI LTO-Tape Drive
Can an Ultra320 SCSI LTO tape drive (or any SCSI device) be hot swapped without needing to power down the system? The current LTO tape drive is the only device on the SCSI host.
If the above can ...
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Update Statistics Strategy after Index Maintenance Activity
Since Index Rebuilds will update statistics data for the concerned indexes with full scan, so it is not advisable to update statistics on those indexes using the Update Statistics with default sample ...
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What maintenance is required for a Postfix setup?
I've taken a look at the setup and configuration process for a Postfix server, planning to use it for just sending emails out from my server. So far, I have these steps:
Setup Postfix
Configure ...
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What are the basics of laser printers and their maintinance? [closed]
Printers are mysterious Pandora's boxes from Hell, of which I know little about. I turn to you demon-tamers for your knowledge.
What are the key parts of a laser printer?
What are the typical print ...
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How often would you run the Postgresql maintenance tasks
After reading the Postgresql documentation, we found that it's recommendable to run the Vacuum tasks daily:
We recommend that active production databases be vacuumed frequently (at least nightly), ...
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Easiest way to show Maintenance page during EC2 instance down time
I need to perform some maintenance, which involves down-times of my EC2 production server. I would like to serve some user friendly Maintenance page meanwhile.
The easiest solution, I was able to ...
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Windows Server 2008 - Simple Method for Web Request to a Maintenance Page URL?
I'd like to setup an ASP.NET page that performs some maintenance for a web application.
What is a simple method for making a web request to the URL for this maintenance page?
I typically use ...
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Is a 'high' IO rate healthy?
I do a lot of work with my Linode that currently hosts a site, but every now and then (usually once every two months or so) - I'll get a warning about my IO rate being too high (Usually just higher ...
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What is the best practice for log rotation and backups [closed]
We know logs are important. What is the best practice to maintain them?
Logs can get big - so we go for log rotation. And sure we don't want to lose the logs - so we go for their backups.
What is ...
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Is Weekly Online Defrag of SBS 2003 Exchange Store Frequent Enough?
(this post is a bit lengthy, so advTHANKSance for those who who stick with it to the end)
I have a client whose SBS 2003 server suddenly started crashing every night. The symptoms of the crash ...
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server offline for battery swap? [closed]
I'm a HostGator customer, and they frequently post notices that such-and-such server will be momentarily offline for a "battery swap".
What exactly are they swapping? I assume it can't be the CMOS ...
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Maintenance page on nginx, best practices
I want to configure the server to show a maintenance page when it exist. I tried this code and works:
location / {
try_files /maintenance.html $uri $uri/ @codeigniter;
}
But I noticed it would ...
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IIS Maintenance page for multiple sites
Is it possible to have a single maintenance/holding page for all sites on an IIS server?
I have one server with 30 sites on it for example. I want to do some maintenance to the server itself which ...
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Windows Update Group policy - scheduled install window rather than time?
I've got a small infrastructure of about 20 servers that are all on a domain and receiving updates from a local WSUS server. The group policy at the moment is that automatic updates are configured to ...
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How can I setup scripts to run as period maintenance against my SQL Server?
I need to be able to run maintenance scripts against my SQL server to expire records and generally clean up the database. Is this best accomplished with some sort of trigger or something within the ...
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Server CPU spikes suddenly and becomes unusuable - Tips to monitor/analyze this?
my server has been going down over the last 24-48 hours, CPU spikes from 15% to 100% and server becomes unusable and all my sites go down as a consequence of it.
Any tips on how I could track what is ...
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What are a regular maintenance you need to perform on your Linux server?
I have a server that host few websites, I haven't done any maintenance for about 2 month other than looking at a couple logs and compressing them.
Just wondering what are a regular maintenance you ...
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Can I Run SQL Maintenance plan to rebuild indices anytime?
Can I Run a maintenance plan that does Index Maintenance anytime?
I've got a slow database right now and I have a index maintenance plan that is set to run every week. I did database update ...
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Scheduled Server Maintenance Holding Page
we are going to perform scheduled maintenance on our server, which runs IIS etc. We may need to restart the server to update Windows etc. I am wondering if it is possible to configure our DNS records ...
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Is GHC porting to FreeBSD stopped?
I'm playing with GHC package on FreeBSD 8.1.
I installed GHC with pkg_add -r ghc. But it was not worked well. I tried some more but I realized the installed GHC version is just 6.10.x. This version is ...
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Setting up Ola Hallengren's sql jobs
I've installed Ola Hallengrens Maintenance scripts and it has created the jobs for me.
DatabaseBackup - SYSTEM_DATABASES - FULL
DatabaseBackup - USER_DATABASES - FULL
DatabaseBackup - USER_DATABASES ...
