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how safe are FS recovery operations?

I just needed to do a recovery of a vserver after a failed update. Because the scope of the affected files wasn't exactly known, I completely restored most directories, except /home which was not affected. While recovering, the server was in a…
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NTFS error 55 after rebooting a Windows 2008 Web Server

This one really drives me around since a year or so: Having a public Windows 2008 Web Server (behind a firewall) that runs perfectly smooth, I have lots of troubles when rebooting this server (e.g. after a Windows Update). Nearly every time when I…
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MySQL table keeps corrupting, need a simple fail over solution?

One of my clients servers recently crashed at the planet, we got an automatic email from them that they had to do a hard reboot. Since then mysqld stops running occasionally and then shopping cart stopped letting users add products to their cart. I…
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MySQL: Corrupt ARCHIVE table. Help, Please?

I'm a programmer and a total newbie as a sysadmin... Today I started receiving error emails from our production site: Incorrect key file for table 'xxx'; try to repair it I found the server with 2 out of 4 cores pegged at 100% CPU by MySQL. Took…
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To salvage data from unresponsive VMWare Infrastructure Web Access Virtual Machine's VMDK file (Win 2003)

Similar to my previous question Cannot delete unresponsive machine on VMWare Infrastructure Web Access on Windows 2003 host and now YET another virtual machine has stopped at 95% (while starting up) for no just reason. Unfortunately in this case…
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PHP fails to start sessions - disk corrupted?

In my Linux server, I can't login to my PHP application having an issue related to PHP sessions: PHP Error Logs: [Sat May 21 21:27:50 2011] [error] [client ] PHP Warning: Unknown: open(/tmp/sess_8lh0d15nu33p5r659ge35spn13, O_RDWR) failed: Invalid…
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ubuntu 9 index corrupted

I upgraded to Ubuntu 9 and I am now getting this error: Tracker applet There was an error while performing indexing Index corrupted. I've tried re-indexing, but the problem still shows up. Does anyone have any ideas?
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How do i stop Squid proxy from corrupting jar-files?

Our internal corporate NTLM proxy (Also Squid i think) randomly returns 407 errors for some reason, and it's pointless to even try to get someone to fix that. I have on my Windows computer an installation of Cntlm proxy on port 3128 to be able to…
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HDD partition corrupting

I manage a server for a nursing home. The system is running 3 x 320GB SAS drives in a RAID5 array. This is split into 6 partitions. The partition which stores all the users profiles becomes corrupt every few months. Write caching is disabled on the…
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Mysqld not starting due to apparent db corruption

I am very new at admining mysql, and bad for me, something caused the db to get clobbered. There are many error messages in the log that I am not sure how to safely proceed. Can you give some tips? Here's the log: 110107 15:07:15 mysqld…
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advisability of taskkill to close an application

Before running backups on the data from an application I need to close it cleanly without risking an improper shutdown and data corruption in a Paradox Database. How likely is that, if I use taskkill and force the process to close in a batch file?…
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Corrupt Exchange 2007 Mail Box

We have a power user that we suspect has a corrupted MB (missing emails, etc.). To troubleshoot the issue further, we want to delete this user's Exchange MB, create a new one, associate it with his AD account, then restore the mail from Backup Excec…
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MySQL on a laptop for remote workers - MyISAM keeps corrupting

We have an application that is used by remote, mobile workers. It intalls WAMP (Server2Go) on a laptop and uses MySQL to store data locally. All tables are MyISAM. Once a day, the workers sync the database to our central server via HTTP scripts…
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Dell Laptop randomly stops booting after ATA HD Upgrade

The standard laptop here is a Dell D600 with XP SP3, which came with an 80 GB drive originally. One of them was upgraded to a 160 GB internal drive. Ghost was used to transfer and expand the original installation to the upgraded drive. All was…
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Removable SATA backup drive corruption

Currently we have 2 SATA hard drives housed in removable enclosures (NTFS partitions). Each week the drive is swapped out with the other one after the backup job has completed. The files that are copied are large virtual machine files ranging from…
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