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Questions tagged [maintenance]

maintenance is keeping hardware and/or software systems in a healthy state by performing tasks such as updating, cleaning or replacing parts.

maintenance is keeping hardware and/or software systems in a healthy state by performing tasks such as updating, cleaning or replacing parts.

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Scheduled task to clean a directory on Windows Server 2008 R2

My Microsoft Exchange 2010 installation server suffers from disk space absence sometimes. To work around this problem I usually just go ahead and remove log files on my mailbox folder. I have to do it every 3 months. Is it possible to set up a…
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How often would you run the Postgresql maintenance tasks

After reading the Postgresql documentation, we found that it's recommendable to run the Vacuum tasks daily: We recommend that active production databases be vacuumed frequently (at least nightly), in order to remove dead rows. Nonetheless, we're…
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SQl 2005-2008 vs. SQL 2000 maintenance

At my company we've been using SQL Server for quite a while and have followed the recommended upgrade path. I've noticed that over the last couple of years I'm spending way more time rebuilding indexes and doing general functional maintenance than I…
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Email Daily Maintenance Plan Report

Im currently running a Maintenance Plan on SQL Server that does the following: 1 daily full backup Hourly transaction log backup 1 daily maintenance cleanup On the reporting options I have it set up to send a report to an email recipient, so now…
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SQL Maintenance Cleanup Task Working but Not Deleting

I have a Maintenance Plan that is suppose to go through the BACKUP folder and remove all .bak older than 5 days. When I run the job, it gives me a success message but older .bak files are still present. I've tried the step at the following question:…
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Is GHC porting to FreeBSD stopped?

I'm playing with GHC package on FreeBSD 8.1. I installed GHC with pkg_add -r ghc. But it was not worked well. I tried some more but I realized the installed GHC version is just 6.10.x. This version is came out in 2009. Current recent version is 7.x,…
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MSSQL Certification 70-432

I work for a small software company and once I'm certified in implementing and maintaining MSSQL, I have the opportunity to move over to implementation from support. My question is what do you suggest as good resources, practice tests etc to…
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best way of minimising disruption to a website following major changes

I was wondering what the best way of minimising disruption to a website caused when major changes may introduce bugs. For example, does anyone do this: /site_files_1/...current build... /site_files_2/...new build... where the site root is…
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Rails Site Maintenance/Monitoring

I am setting up a daily maintenance task for my rails app. When the task is complete is sends me an e-mail that summarizes the tasks activity. If you were doing the same, what kind of tasks would your run? What kind of information would like that…
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advice on database index maintenance

I have a fairly large table, which I have to keep up, with some very, very fragmented indices. This seems to be causing problems with performance. I would like to have neat fresh crisp indices on this table. I also have some rather annoying…
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automated mysql maintaince

Is there a script doing mysql maintenance ? or how can i make it manually, using cron tab ? and what steps should a good mysql maintenance run ? (MyISAM)
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MSSQL2005 database hanging during maintenance

Our database server has a maintenance plan which runs each night: Back up databases & logs (10-20GB max) Check Database Integrity Rebuild Indexes Update Statistics Normally this all executes in under a minute per database. However, in the last…
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run installer on all machines on domain

is it reasonable to automatically run an installer (for an activex control) as administrator on all machines in my domain, using an out-of-the-box windows (any version)?
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query maintenance plan schedule

can I query the schedule of a maintenance plan? I want to automate checking that backups were run. Thanks
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"Site Down for Maintenance" what kind of maintenance work do they do?

I'm a moderate web developer. I haven't managed any high traffic websites. Generally, I observe that only high traffic websites are down for maintenance. stackoverflow.com will also go down for maintenance. I always wonder. What kind of maintenance…
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