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Restore Windows Server 2008 R2

Earlier today, I tried to restore my Windows Server 2008 R2 server from a Windows Server backup file. The process it followed (which I had used in the past on Server 2003) was Do quick load of OS from CD Restore backup from external drive. When…
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how to restore ubuntu image with iPXE

I would like to create a backup of one of my Ubuntu systems. Put that backup file/image on one of my web servers and use iPXE or gPXE to restore it onto multiple servers. I'm assuming that I need a specialized application or distro that can be…
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Benefits of "System Restore" feature?

Do you have "System Restore" feature enabled on your computers? Few years ago I had bad experience with System Restore on Windows XP and after that I disabled it. I never missed it. On Vista laptop it didn't bothered me as it wasn't in my way.…
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Perform a full time-machine restore without an install disc?

I have a computer with a blank hard drive where, fortunately, the user has a complete Time Machine backup. Unfortunately, my Leopard install Disc was eaten by an unhappy disk drive, and while I do have some install discs kicking about, they are…
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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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how to find memory on my system

A long time back on a production server of mine I had created a few virtual machines. On Ubuntu using virt-manager I have forgotten their configurations i.e. How much RAM did I allocate to those VM's can some one help me to figure that out.I have no…
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Restoring II6 server after a hardware failure

We had an array lose 3 drives on an IIS6 server. We now have the drives runing...for now. What's the best path to restoring the server to functionality. We have a backup of system state and the interpub directory. Thanks
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How to restore with multicast 3 systems: Windows 7, Windows 2008 and Linux?

We have used an old version of Norton Ghost to do backups and restores of computers. There are few groups of computers with the same hardware and we have used multicast. We have had Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Fedora Linux on each computer.…
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nic not working after TEST sbs 2003 restore to dissimilar hardware

restored an sbs 2003 backup file to different hardware rebooted, and things took a while, i tidied up the drivers and such, removed ghost nic in device manager etc, re-ran the connection wizard for internet without issues. i hard coded the ip…
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Ubuntu Desktop system restore?

We are using all the desktop ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04, we are looking same thing like system resorting to back date like windows feature. Around 500 desktop and 79 server we want to setup. Thanks
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PowerShell Call Restore Point in Windows Beside Sequence ID

So I'm aware that using Restore-Computer -RestorePoint ID I can call a specific restore point in my script, where Windows will rollback to. My situation requires a different approach, which I've seen no documentation on. Assuming I have 50+ clients,…
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Windows Server 2019 Essentials not showing System Protection > Create Restore Point

The entire System Protection tab is gone! I wanted to create a restore point before installing something, and I wanted to change some "Previous file versions" settings on a network share. What's going on? I seem to get previous file versions at the…
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Home Server restore fails cannot find boot device

I am using Windows Home Server to backup my PCs. I recently had a hard drive failure on one of my WHS connected PCs and obtained an identical sized/speed drive for my laptop. I used the latest home server restore CD and did the restore. It said it…
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How to fix SElinux contexts and labels after restoring from backup

I have a server running Centos7/XFS with SElinux that had a problem (unrelated to SElinux) and had to be restored from a snapshot that was several weeks old. This server also makes a nightly rsync backup to a dedicated offsite backup Docker…
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Windows Domain controller recover test

I'm testing a Exchange 2012 VM recovery in a Hyper-V test server. I have this VM, 2 DC and a Exchange server: SRVDC1 (pdc, nm, rid) SRVDC2 SRVEX2 As far as I know I need to recover also a Domain Controller to let exchange run, then I choose to…
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