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Mirror Server IIS

We are keeping two IIS servers, each has a copy of sites.Both having DNS entries. How can I switch to immediately upon a failure. The objective is the secondary server should start running when the primary fails.
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Good way to simulate a disk failure in vSphere

I need to be able to demonstrate SQL Server recovery procedures and since our DBs are all virtualized and using a SAN for backend storage, I need to know what the best way is to simulate a disk failure and recovery using a tail-log backup. I've…
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SMART: Raw Read Error Rate Errors on Mirrored Drives

Thanks for reading. I have a pair of 150GB WD Velociraptors that have failed SMART status. The only fail they have is the Raw Read Error Rate, which is as follows. .........Status:....Value:....Worst:....Threshold:....Raw Value:....Predicted TEC…
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A faulty Caviar Blue hard drive?

We have a small "homemade" server running fully updated Debian Wheezy (amd64). One hard drive installed: WDC WD6400AAKS. The motherboard is ASUS M4N68T V2. The usual load: CPU: an average of 20% Each week about 50GB of additional space is occupied.…
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Raid0 assemble disk again?

Our server recently suffered a disk failure, so our hosting provider put a new Disk in with CentOS so we can login and see if we can recover the data. We had 2 x 120 GB SSD drives in software RAID0 config - our host set this up for us; we didn't do…
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re-use after logical failure

I may not have enough information for a good answer but here goes. I have a home ubuntu server with one wd 1.5 TB hard drive that was about 1.5 years old. After a 2-week shutdown it wouldn't boot. Couldn't read error messages because this…
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Linux RAID10 hit bad disk while re-syncing. Is it hosed?

I have a Linux software RAID10 device on md0. It's made up of 4 1TB disks sd[abcd]. Yesterday Smart emailed me to say a disk was going bad (seek errors going up and reallocated sectors). I rebooted with a new drive and added it to the array.…
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p410i Mirror failed couldnt find same disk

I have an HP server with an P410i RAID Card installed. I had two SATA Drives connected (250GB each). The RAID was configured as a Mirror. A few days ago the drive one (1) failed, and i had to remove it. Tried to find the same part number here in…
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Drive stopped working on windows server 2003 and I receive a "controller error"

I have a Proliant 360 Hp server with Windows server 2003 R2. I can only access the server in safe mode. The event viewer is completely filled up with this error: The driver detected a controller error on Device\Harddisk3\DR3 I figured out which…
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A drive is failing on Windows Server 2003. How should I back it up? How should I restore it?

My drive is failing and I have a new one ready to go. Can I just create a BKF file on a separate drive with the Backup utility, then shut down, swap in new drive for failing one, insert Windows Server 2003 disk, and restore the drive from the BKF…
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CentOS server boots but won't allow login (ext3_abort_called, remounts read-only)

I've got a CentOS 5.5 server (HP ProLiant with two-disk RAID array) that was working fine until a power failure last week. (Long story, but UPS was not properly configured at that time.) After the power failure, the server came back online and…
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Hard drives continuously failing in Fujitsu RX300 server

We look after a Fujitsu RX300 S4 server that has 6 x 500GB SATA drives in a RAID-6 array, running from an LSI MegaRAID card (built into the motherboard). A couple of weeks ago, one hard drive flagged itself as being faulty (orange light on the…
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Hard Drive Failure

I posted this a few days ago: Unable to write to root partition We thought that an add on card may have been conflicting with the motherboard, so we installed a new motherboard. After that everything worked fine, and we were able to run the server…
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HPE SSA : replace both HDD & bay in a logical volume

We have a HPE DL380p G8 server with smart array P420i in Slot 0. There are 4 drives in a RAID-10 array and 3 drives in a RAID-5 array. There is no spare drive. Yesterday one of the drives in RAID-10 array (in 1I:2:1) failed and we replaced it with…
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What's the normal order of messages in dmesg when a USB HDD is failing?

I have a USB hard drive attached to a Debian GNU/Linux server. I'm trying to format it (NTFS), with this command: # mkntfs -v /dev/sdd1 which takes a few hours, because it checks the disk too. While checking, dmesg -T shows the following: [Wed Jan…
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