I found out an interesting quirk when backing up DFS (Distributed File System) files using Symantec Backup Exec 11D. I have a full backup setup, basically selected the entire drive to backup, finishes every night with no errors.
You go back into the job in Backup Exec and try to do a restore, what do […]
What do you do if you want to look for combinations of word strings in Gigabytes of IIS log files but don’t want to spend any money?
You download a program called Strings.
This is a SysInternals program now owned by Microsoft that will search through text files for word strings and kick them out to […]
Do you need something to monitor the bandwidth usage on one server? For instance if you have a hosted server that has limited total usage. Well if you want a simple free tool download NetMeter.
You can get real time statistics, totals including day, week and month. It will also project your usage over the […]
I have uninstalled Symantec Endpoint Protection from my laptop. The trial was coming to an end and with the findings of the new management console problems I didn’t see a reason to continue.
See previous posts here:
Part I
Part II
Instead I have moved on to BitDefender Total Security 2008. I have just installed it and it seems […]
So I am running Solarwinds Orion 8.5 on a Windows 2003 R2 server. I installed Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 (KB110806) on the server and it broke Orion’s website. The website would come up then when I tried to login I would get the following error:
Orion Website Error An error has occurred with […]
How often do you find that one of your servers has a drive that is full or overnight has doubled in space usage. If you are like me you don’t want to spend the time to look through explorer to find out what the size of each folder is manually.
An easy free tool to tell […]
So we have a couple of down and dirty backup servers that run backup scripts and a free backup program called SyncBack. These methods of backups are cheap (free), easy and fast. One problem you run into is when replicating data to multiple locations that have different retention times you need a way to clean-up […]
I ran across a pretty sweet product today. It is called Yoggie Pico and it is a security suite for your laptop that is based off of a USB stick. It is a hardened Linux box running off a 520MHz processor is a USB stick. It is supposed to provide all of the security you need […]
If you are giving away a hard drive, selling it, or even disposing of a hard drive that you have had your data on you are going to want to wipe the drive clean.
Just because you have “deleted” your data doesn’t mean that someone can’t recover it. There is a utility called Secure Erase that […]
Promqry
Kind of a sweet little tool my buddy sent me. I installed it and ran it, doesn’t do you much good if you aren’t an Administrator of the boxes you are scanning but it is an easy to use tool. Good program to have in your toolbelt if you are paranoid like me.
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