A recent client issue was the failure of Exchange Granular backups to a backup to disc (B2D) location using the latest Backup Exec 2010 R2 plus hotfixes and updates. On the surface it seemed quite strange. Tape based versions of the same backup job worked. For readers not familiar the GRT option is simply to […]
SQLIO is a tool provided by Microsoft which can also be used to determine the I/O capacity of a given configuration. You can find it here or simply google it. The purpose of the tool is to help you compare various disk or other IO device configurations for use as an MS SQL database location. […]
Can’t believe that I haven’t mentioned this before as I must use it at least once a month and frequently more often. I regularly have to transfer the contents of drives for analysis or recovery and it always bugged me that it would fail on a particular file and halt the transfer. So I use […]
A service from Adobe (in the style of dropbox but not requiring an installation of anything) is called Adobe Sendnow. It allows you to upload files and have a link sent to your recipient. Even better it cleans up afterwards. So about Sendnow – which you get at https://sendnow.acrobat.com/welcome.html Adobe SendNow supports a broad range of […]
As you will see Plurk can also be used to display WordPress posts using the Wp-Plurk addin – from here http://www.ferdianto.com/wp-plurk or via the wordpress plugins site So as you write – you can have your display updated. Short and sweet Actually there may be a compatibility issue with 3.1 and Wp-plurks so not so much […]
During the conversion of a Redhat ES 4 (Nahant) physical server to an esx3.5i host I was having repeated failures after around 15 minutes. From vmware-converter-agent.log I found this error “/sbin/mkfs.ext3 did not finish producing output after 300 seconds“. An researched this to find that there is a hard coded limit on the length of […]
I had to say goodbye to an application that has served me well for a long time. My feed reader of choice was Attensa River of News which due to the fact that Attensa no longer support or develop it and that it was increasing unable to subscribe to certain types of feed – I […]
I was reviewing the setup on an IOmega storcenter ix2-200 and noted that there were some updates for the firmware. Specifically for performance of usb attached devices which I had noted were slow during recent use. So if running one of these perhaps as an iscsi target or as a nas storage space – worth putting […]
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