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Tue, Jul 21 2009 4:10

This should help a lot of people with there backup woes on SBS2008

Don Murphy in the SBS2k list said.. Quite a few months ago I ran into an issue with ShadowProtect on SBS 2008. Long and the short of it is there is an issue in the Exchange vss writer that was fixed in Update Rollup 9. This should help a lot of people...
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Fri, Sep 26 2008 20:04

Backup and Restore Small Business Server 2003 using Data Protection Manager 2007

Corporate America: The Technical Side: Backup and Restore Small Business Server 2003 using Data Protection Manager 2007.: http://ctsitguru.blogspot.com/2008/09/backup-and-restore-small-business.html Stealing from a newsgroup pot from Andrew Alaniz --...
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Thu, Sep 4 2008 0:28

Can't please them all can you?

http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisewindows/archives/2008/09/exchange_backup.html Show me an Enterprise customer and they probably are not using ntbackup to backup Exchange. Show me a SBS 2008 server and there's a backup api under the hood that...
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Sat, Jun 7 2008 20:20

Buy her a bigger purse

http://uksbsguy.com/forums/p/2096/6544.aspx I got one question about backup... Strong beliver of tapes but now not supporting what is the poor PA meant to do now when the external HDD do not fit in her handbag. Seriously though, apart from now having...
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Thu, May 29 2008 22:15

About that cloud....

Some online backup services insecure - heise online UK: http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/Some-online-backup-services-insecure--/110771 Does the cloud have maintenance windows that match your needs for maintenance? Read that. The Cloud has issues. Be...
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Fri, May 23 2008 22:19

Latest VSS hotfix -- 949391

When Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) tries to delete hardware support snapshots on a computer that is running Windows Server 2003 or an x64 version of Windows XP, the operation may fail: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;949391...
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Tue, May 20 2008 21:49

Debit to cash... now THAT was my favorite journal entry

I met Jan Spring, VP of Sales of Efolder ( www.efolder.net ) in New Orleans and she and Jim Muglia (long lost relation of Bob Muglia, Senior VP of Server and Tools -- trust me long story-- ask him sometime) talked about Efolder. About 5 seconds into the...
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Wed, Mar 5 2008 21:37

Making an image

A couple of people pinged and asked if I could have done a StorageCraft backup instead of the EnCase one I did for the examination of the laptop. Honestly it would have been easier. EnCase is sometimes a bear to get it to make a true boot image of the...
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Wed, Jan 23 2008 1:23

StorageCraft and VMware/VPC

When in Virtual PC or VMWare and restoring a StorageCraft image you have to think of where you are at. First off.. you need to share out the location of where the image is at. Then you boot the StorageCraft ISO into the virtual PC or VMware. Choose option...
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Fri, Dec 28 2007 1:44

Catalog a backup file

From the mailbox tonight ...which is kinda fitting since I'm using a backup for my lost SYSVOL issue... Sometimes there's a backup you need that just isn't listed in your tape (or hard drive) catalog. Click on Restore, and then on Tools and...
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Wed, Dec 19 2007 1:38

Getdataback to Get Data Back

Bob Nitrio pinged me the other night that I paved over my ISO repository in my zeal to test out Bitlocker and at the time I was running Longhorn. He suggested GetDataBack from http://www.runtime.org/ to get my ISO's back. As you can see in the image...
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Sat, Dec 15 2007 23:39

Either have a backup ..or don't care

I just winced just a little bit.. in my testing of bitlocker on my beta test box I just accidentally paved over the drive on that server that stored all the downloaded ISO's from the beta site. Fortunately, while I can do a little wince at the time...
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Mon, Nov 26 2007 1:38

A shrinking backup window

Chris reminded me while we were in AU of the adjustment he made to the backup program in SBS.... Here’s my blog article on modifying bkprunner.exe to use /FU to restore SBS performance when backing up to file: http://chrisara.blogspot.com/2007/09/modifying...
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Mon, Oct 22 2007 1:03

Beer for a laptop

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/10/19/laptop.beer.ap/index.html While it's admirable that he's offering beer for a return of his laptop that has the business financials and the logos, the reality is that for any business, one shouldn't...
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Tue, Oct 16 2007 19:33

Online backup - is it for every data?

To: sbradcpa@pacbell.net Dear IDrive-E User (susan_bradley) , Scheduled Backup status. Scheduled Time : 10/11/2007 2:55:23 AM ---------------------------------------------- Backup Set name : susan_bradley Backup Operation : Scheduled Version No: 1.1.2...
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Tue, Sep 18 2007 14:07

VSS hotfixes

On the topic of VSS hotfixes, Chris was saying that the optimal VSS hotfixes are now: A new Volume Shadow Copy Service update is now available that fixes various Volume Shadow Copy Service problems in Windows Server 2003: http://support.microsoft.com...
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Tue, Sep 18 2007 1:58

Availability of a Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) hotfix rollup package for Windows Server 2003 to resolve some VSS snapshot issues

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940349 Availability of a Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) hotfix rollup package for Windows Server 2003 to resolve some VSS snapshot issues Chris says there's a new VSS hotfix... okay mark your watches... it's almost...
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Sat, Sep 15 2007 2:02

Would you like a terrabyte or two?

http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=10882 I terrabyte for about $300 2 disk raid for about $400 - http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=10953 And both in Ethernet or USB 2.0 Wasn't it just yesterday that I thought a 1 gig hardrive...
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Fri, Aug 17 2007 16:45

StorageCraft Hardware Independent Restore

Okay so read this... and then go back and read it again and let it sink in of exactly what this means to your backup strategies. StorageCraft has put their HIR (the Hardware Independent Restore) that "oh my goodness wow I can restore to ANYTHING"...
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