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SBS 2003 Can't Boot after restore from backup

I have a problematic SBS 2003 installed on a Dell PowerEdge SC430 server. The server has two SATA drives originally configured as a RAID-1 mirror using software RAID (i.e. no RAID controller). After a problem with disks, the server was rendered…
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Where to get some generic ruleset for the firewall of a domain controller?

I've blown up the firewall rules on a domain controller (DC). Since there are no restore points in Windows 2008 and restoring everything from a full backup is not a solution in this case, how do I: Either get the rules back from a full backup,…
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Best method to protect software PBX system from disaster

I have been put in charge of maintaining an old PBX system which is running Windows Server 2003 and TeleAdvantage PBX software. The big concern is that the company that originally built this PBX box is out of business and we have no way to simply…
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>Lotus Notes Backup Exec 12 restore options - Which one?

What do these restore options in backup exec mean when restoring a Lotus Notes database? Retain original IDs Select this option to restore the original database IDs. Assign new database ID Select this option to assign new IDs to the…
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How to Recover Mailbox from old NTBackup Exchange Backup File

I have a backup file that was created by NTBackup from which I need to recover a mailbox (preferably in PST format). Is it possible to extract this from this BKF backup file? We're running Exchange 2007 now. Thank you!
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Back-up Appliances and how easy they really are

So currently I am looking at a few options to improve my company's back-up solution and I stumbled across a few ideas and quotes regarding the following: HP x1000 G2 Network Storage System Dell PowerVault DL2200 Now, these both seem great, and…
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On Exchange 2003, Is there a limit to the number of email stores you can have?

Is there a limit on the number of "stores" you can have on an Exchange server? It seems that it takes a very long time to repair one large store and we are thinking it might be better to divide the stores up into smaller chunks so we can bring…
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Restore Windows Server backup into a smaller partition

A Windows Server 2008 R2 machine was mistakenly partitioned. The system partition is now larger than it should be. Because Disk Management doesn't let me shrink the partition to the desired size, I believe the alternative is to repartition the…
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How to create bootable backup image of windows install

I have received a new laptop and installed all drivers and necessary apps. hile the windows 7 install is fresh and fast I was wondering how I could make a bootable backup of the system in current state? Preferably, if my windows install gets…
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Copy a partition into a new image out of an existing dd image

How can I dd an image of a single partition out of a full-disk image? I know skip and count, but I am supposed to divide by bs, and since this is the first partition, it's start point is early in the image and dd says the number is not valid for…
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Restore single users Exchange 2003 mailbox from backup

I take weekly backups of exchange in full. I also take complete weekly backups of the entire server. It is a Server 2003 R2 with AD and Exchange 2003 all on one box. One users inbox has disappeared. She has 19000+ junk items now. It is possible the…
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Backup software Windows recommendations ~ ( PS: except Acronis )

So I am looking for recommendations for enterprise backup solutions for Windows. I am hugely disappointed with Acronis though on an individual station it's fine -- centralized = FAIL. Needs to: Support centralized management ( deployment if…
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Exchange restore from Outlook clients

We have an Exchange 2003 SP2 server on 2003, whose store got corrupted after IBM RAID got bad-stripes and bad-blocks. Unfortunately the backups were discovered out to be out of date, so now we facing almost a month worth of data loss (and very…
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Maintenance window and recovery for a large database

One of our teams is developing a database that will be somewhat large (~500GB) and grow from there (I know 500 Gigs may seem small to many of you, but it will be one of the larger databases in our shop). One of the issues they are grappling with is…
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Backup plan for production server

We have a production server (RHEL 5.3 64 bit) where all our domains are hosted remotely. We want to have a standard backup plan for our system so that on any physical damage the system can be quickly reconstructed from a restore point present in…
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