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Windows XP IIS 5.1 MetaBase corrupted somehow, reinstalling doesn't help

Somehow my MetaBase.bin is corrupted on my Windows XP machine. I've attempted to uninstall and reinstall IIS numerous times. I did see the Reinstalling IIS on WinXP machine post here which I made sure to follow exactly however after uninstalling IIS…
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in MSSQL Server 2005 Dev Edition, I faced index corruption

When running stored procedures in MSSQL Server, I found it failed and the DBMS (MSSQL Server 2005 Dev Edition) notified that some indexes are corrupted. Please advice me, here below is DBCC logs: DBCC results for 'itopup_dev'. Service Broker Msg…
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Backing Up User Data when data is not in use. Should I be concerned?

This may be a dumb question. I would like to use duplicity to make backups to Amazon S3 of directories, each of which contains a different user's data. Each directory could be written to at any time. So I have two questions: Should I be concerned…
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Ubuntu 20.04 VM Corrupted Javascript files when installing NPM packages

I'm experiencing something weird on Ubuntu server 20.04, Its virtual machine running on XCP-NG 8. I tried several versions of nodejs 14, 16, 18 but nothing solves the issue I can't even install nodejs through APT the only way that worked was through…
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xfs_repair runs instantly, surely this should take some time to run?

I'm trying to troubleshoot some issues with multiple database engines crashing and logs suggesting corruption while reading from disk, so I'm running xfs_repair on a 2TB NVMe which contains the files. However the program runs instantly which doesn't…
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Any way to recover data from a corrupted RAID 6 array?

I have a pretty old RAID 6 array on MegaRAID 9361-8i / Windows (which has 16x 8TB HDDs). Recently, I found 2 HDDs were dead according to Megaraid Storage Manager, and replaced one of them with a new drive. There was a little hiccup during the…
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What could cause files to end up zeroed out?

A client sent us an external hard drive where at least half the files are corrupt. They are broad mix of filetypes (images, documents, etc) and there is no discernible pattern into which are corrupt. They appear as their original size, however, when…
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Raid 10 Centos 7 failure after power cut suddenly

I have 1 server that using RAID 10 software. However, after recent power failure the server no longer can boot and stuck at grub rescue. Using ls command for all device n the server does not detect the content thus cannot reinstall grub. Using…
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Filesystem to protect the storage medium

I'm working on an embedded system which will act as a server, the problem is the environment where it will run is so aggressive and it will suffer abrupt power interruptions. So I'm planning to mount the root filesystem as fake-writable using…
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Windows 10 1909 OS Corruption Preventing Further Updates

We have multiple computers on the domain which have corruption within the OS. This corruption prevents the install of updates or upgrades. I know the computers which have issues from the results of the command DISM /online /cleanup-image /scanhealth…
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weird filesystem behavior (corruption?)

Something very weird I came across, any thoughts would be much appreciated: Some software (httrack) created a directory structure. Using my user (which also ran the software), I cannot view the directory: ls -ltra feed/ ls: cannot access 'feed/.':…
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Monitor Linux Server filesystem health and suspicious activities

I run my own, small server here. The server runs on Ubuntu 18.04. There is one single HDD using LVM on a partition together with EXT4. LVM is used for taking snapshots. I also use Webmin with Virtualmin for administration. During the past weeks, I…
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List all files with corrupt filenames recursively

I've got a Linux server with some directories and files structure on it. Apparently somehow someone uploaded a bunch of filenames, which got corrupted. Consider the following example: └── parent ├── foo1.jpg ├── f+�o2.jpg └──…
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PDF Corruption When Sending with Microsoft Products

I have the same PDF corruption problem in two different offices that I am the tech support for. Office 1: Started in the middle of December. PDF received from outside the office and is viewable with no problems. I have no control over how it is…
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Very strange disk corruption error

I have a server, where I deleted a large file. Let's call it ~/tempfile.txt. Somehow, the deletion didn't work properly, and the disk got corrupted -- meaning, du -hs * doesn't show that file existing. But df -h shows that the root partition is…
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