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Mysql disaster recovery
We just got a major disaster: somebody made an uncontrolled update on the production database, and obviously, the backup process is not working since a long time, so we got a major data loss. A 40 ...
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Fail recovery for an Hyper-V VM
i'm testing a recovery at my job of a VM in Windows 2008 server with Hyper-V.
what to know:
That server called "vm_server" for further reference, got 3 VM running 24/7 on it.
One is for Active ...
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Recovering Exchange 2003 backup to Exchange 2010 server
Our old 2003 mail server has died, and we are hastily setting up a new one based on Exchange 2010.
We looking for a way to recover the 2003 data into 2010, any idea if possible?
Thanks.
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Restore Windows Server 2008 R2 from a Windows Server Backup (.vhd)
I have a crashed (BSOD) Windows Server 2008 where i luckily have a backup from the night before the crash. This backup was made by using Windows Server Backup, doing a full system backup on a NAS. ...
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How to recover basic networking utilities on Debian?
I am administrating a small server for LAN, providing basic services such as web-proxy, ldap, kerberos, afs, etc. Yesterday there was a power cut so server halted. When I restarted it no network ...
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Exchange 2003: recover mailbox when migrated to 2007
We have migrated almost all of our mailboxes from Exchange 2003 to 2007 so both are still up and co-existing in our domain. One mailbox is missing some mails, and I tried to recover from an Exchange ...
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How to enter into BusyBox when booting?
I have occasionally installed cloud-init package in Ubuntu, which blocks me from booting. Neither recovery mode works. Because cloud-init installed some upstart job configuration.
So I want to enter ...
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Recover overwritten filesystem
I made an oopsie- insofar as a filesystem with important data was overwritten as an LVM volume. I never actually wrote any data to the disk though, only hosed enough of the partition table to mark it ...
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Windows Server 2008 Backup Failure on WinRE Partition
I'm setting up Windows Server 2008 R2 backup for the first time. When I try to do a test backup, it fails almost immediatly with the following error message.
Log Name: Application
Source: ...
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Rebuild Directory Structure
We have an HD with 3 partitions, 2 are correctly identified but the third one is being reported as "unrecognized file system" by the WindowsXP Recovery Console.
This third partition was used to ...
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How do you recover from a zimbra crash?
My server running zimbra crashed hard and now the zimbra server won't start. Here is what I get in the logs:
Nov 24 21:04:14 zimbra1 slapd[21258]: @(#) $OpenLDAP: slapd 2.4.21 (Mar 24 2010 18:25:37) ...
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Why mdadm's RAID-1 is resyncing from scratch despite of the bitmap?
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md0 : active raid1 nbd0[3] sda10[0]
53246315 blocks super 1.2 [3/1] [U__]
[>....................] recovery = 1.0% (537088/53246315) ...
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How can I switch Linux running OS from disk to running from RAM without restarting?
Is it possible to switch to running Linux from RAM or RAM disk after starting starting initially from disk?
eg. You need to make an image of your hard disk, FTP it to a remote location, some time ...
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After applying archive log in oracle, what time is it now?
I have restored the database and applied the archive log. How can I tell the latest transaction timestamp I have recovered to?
This is oracle 10g R2 standard (no flashback enable)
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Reinstalling YUM on CentOS via RPM
So, our server got into a complete meltdown. Random files are missing, an fsck fixed something out of any of the remaining files...and thanks to sysadmin's faulty backups, I ended up trying to recover ...
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How to uninstall domain controller role from server with command prompt
I have the following problem:
I need to create a test Win Server 2008 R2 as Virtual machine, and set active directory on it. Never did this before, so I just experimenting.
The problem is, after I ...
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How to clone a windows xp recovery partition
Its all in the question. The partition is on a slave drive.
Bob.
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Getting the path of items on your network
I have a ReadyNAS on my network that I can't SSH or rsync into because it doesn't allow connections on port 22. I can, however, see the machine in Ubuntu's filesystem GUI under "Network". If I open up ...
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Recovering data from failed Raid configuration with 4 drives and two raid sets (Asus P6T / Intel ICH10r)
I've added the complete detailed version for my question below for those who can help, but want to quickly summarize my question first. I setup two Raid arrays using (4) WD Raptors, a striped set for ...
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Restore Windows from local system image
Back in the day (late 90s) I worked with a school who partitioned their desktop systems into two drives, the main Windows drive and a secondary hidden drive which held a system image for easy restore ...
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Plesk crash recovery
I had a dedicated server, running CentOS with a Plesk control panel, that had a hard drive crashed. The hard drive was put into a USB enclosure and connected to a new server.
When I SSH into the new ...
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Where are fixmbr.exe and fixboot.exe located?
You can boot into the XP cd (which I have) and use those commands, but I'm making a legal custom recovery CD. I need these files to put on it? I've searched the internet, scoured the actual cd, etc. ...
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MySQL failed to start after killed a long running “LOAD DATA INFILE” process
I killed a MySQL process which is running a LOAD DATA INFILE command to load a 9GB .csv file into a table in a InnoDB database.
Now, when I run mysql DATABASE, it just stopped and showed
Reading ...
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MySQL data recovery (innoDB) - missing .frm files but intact ibdata
A recent server fiasco left me with a by-all-appearances intact ibdata file but only half of my .frm-containing directories. I've copied all of this to a fresh mysql install, and have successfully ...
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How can I automatically boot into the Advanced Boot menu in Windows 7
Rather than playing the F8 game on startup, is there a way (command line etc.) of configuring windows so that shutting down Window and rebooting will always come up with the advanced boot menu or ...
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How to recover from RAID 5 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to recover from RAID 5
there are 5 disk-array. i've lost the data of one of them. How can i recover?
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Exchange 2003 Recovery Items go back 3 years for 1 user
I have an Exchange 2003 environment serving approx 150 users.
We are quickly approaching the 75 GB limit, and need to clear out what I can until we can get a new server in place. (Probably months ...
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how to repair ubuntu 8.04.4 after uninstalling many things by mistake
While trying to install rmagick and failing, I thought I would uninstall libfreetype6 and then reinstall it. When I entered
sudo apt-get remove libfreetype6
It asked that the following packages ...
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Is there a risk of data loss on RAID1 when RAID controller stops working?
I heard that using RAID5 or RAID6 can be problematic: if RAID controller stops working, there is too much pain to recover the data when you do not have another controller of the same type.
Now, is it ...
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Linux file Recovery
Can anyone help me out in getting back a deleted file in linux. Instead of giving this command " rm -rvf *~ ", I gave " rm -rvf * ".
Is there any way to get all files back ??
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Can i recover command line deleted file on ubuntu?
I have mistakenly deleted a file via while connected ssh .
How i can recover that file or, if ubuntu has something like trash bin or so ?
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How to recover/restore SQLServer 2005 databases from MDF/LDF files
I have a SQL DB instance that was stopped/shut down improperly and the msdb system db along with the regular DBs have been "in recovery" for over 2 weeks now. sometimes after a reboot one DB in the ...
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Change dead disk in DPM 2010
I was backuping data on an 1Gb hard drive with DPM 2010.
This disk died but I replace it with another 1Gb hard drive.
But I don't find how to recreate data structure on this new drive from previous ...
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sql server 2005 instance unresponsive and all db's are 'in recovery'
we've got a sql server 2005 instance that one of our guys messed up, i believe they killed the sql server service and restarted the computer, and when it came back all of our databases are "in ...
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MySQL Server - Got error -1 from storage engine
I am currently trying to restore a MySQL table from the .ibd file.
I have been following the instructions on the MySQL reference manual on how to use DISCARD and IMPORT TABLESPACE to replace the .idb ...
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Migrate Windows Server 2008 to a new hard disk
I have a machine with Windows Server 2008. I want to change the hard disk drive, but keep everything else. I don't have a cd/dvd drive and don't want to buy it.
My first idea was to make a ...
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How to recover zfs pool when root fs fails?
I have a FreeBSD 8.0 amd64 box w/ 1 ATA drive for system root and 4 SATA drives as a RAIDZ pool. The ATA drive isn't mirrored nor part of any pool, but also doesn't hold any valuable data (other then ...
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How to recover from failed Mysql schema update, with replication?
I have two MySQL servers configured with master-slave replication.
Before we deploy a new application version we:
1) STOP SLAVE
2) Take a MySQL dump of the slave.
However, if a mistake is done ...
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Ext3 fs: Block bitmap for group 1 not in group (block 0). is fs dead?
My company has a server with one big partition with Mysql database and php files. Now this partition seems to be corrupted, as reported from kernel messages when I tried to mount it manually:
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ghettoVCB issue
I have setup a ghettoVCB script in order to backup three VM.
I put it in a crontab but I have an issue.
In my backup folder I have 3 different folders, one for each VM.
In each folder I have the ...
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Is there any way to recover files in /usr/local directory on Ubuntu?
We are running Ubuntu server on VPS. Some files were removed accidentally by placing unnecessary space this command:
rm -r /usr/local <directory to be deleted>
I know, that in most cases this ...
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preparing to migrate MOSS 2007 SP1 content into new server with MOSS 2007 SP2 with the same server name using builtin tools
To All Experts here,
I'd like to perform a MOSS server content migration from the existing single instance server (SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008, SharePoint 2007 SP1) all in one and by ...
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Should a restore of a database file for Exchange 2010 always be in a “Dirty Shutdown” state?
First off, note that I am not doing this recovery because of any actual problem, I'm just testing it. I'm running Exchange 2010 on Server 2008 R2, and using Windows Server Backup to a remote file ...
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SAN based Snapshots and Disaster Recovery
I wanted to know if anyone has has any expirience of using SAN based snapshots and replication between SANs for disaster recovery. My main worries are around databases and applications like Exchange ...
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Automatic o/s reset on a dedicated internet browsing Windows 7 pc
I have just purchased a new Acer Revo nettop PC for dedicated internet browsing. It will be the only pc on a home network.
My original plan was to install one virtual PC for family browsing, another ...
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Reset Windows user domain password
Is there a way to reset a user domain password remotely without login to a remote desktop to the domain controller? I could not find any MMC plugin in non-server Windows (Window 7 Ultimate in this ...
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SRM 4 Test Fails with message for some VM : Error: A specified parameter was not correct
Here are my architecture :
For the protected site
4 Host VSphere Enterprise Plus, each one with 2 HBAs FC connected to the switch fabric, connected to an EMC CX4-120
1 VCenter
1 SRM
For the ...
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Accidentally overwrote first 400MB of hard drive with ext3 partition - possible to rescue?
Accidentally wrote /dev/zero to the first 371MB of a 500GB disk. Is it possible to rebuild the partition table and/or recover what data hasn't been overwritten?
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unattended recovery from image
I've got quite a few machines which sometimes need to be restored from an image. There's a slight problem that those machines are at different locations, don't have keyboards and sometimes don't even ...
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Recovery models, log shipping and log backup frequency in SQL05
Trying to get a sense of the optimal setup in our environment.
I have a large SQL05 DB (500+GB) that is log shipped to a read-only system over a WAN. I'm currently running in FULL recovery model, ...
