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 Percona's backup allows for full and incremental backups and it is open source.  I tried it on a Redhat 6.2 server called Redhat62 and ...

I have users that use laptops to work remote.  Unfortunately, when they VPN into to our server they can route, but they have problems with...

All this was done in a lab.  Don't do this on a production server.  There is my warning and disclaimer. I did a full backup of my ...

I've used samba for a long time and love it, but I ran into a product called Centrify that is so easy to setup and use for kerberos auth...

Steps I use to install MySQL to a different directory.   The truth is I just use the rpm and let it install in the default /var/lib/mysql ...

After a reboot I noticed that my iSCSI LVM was missing.   I did an lvscan and it was listed, but as INACTIVE. I ran lvchange -a y /dev/v...

I installed Redhat 6.2 today.  I added Linux integration services 3.2 and after I added the service I no longer had a cdrom drive or my net...

This is how you setup a Physical Disk, Volume Group and a Logical Volume using the command line in Linux. This example will be from a ...

1. Using Putty login as the user you want to create the key. 2. type ssh-keygen –t rsa. 3. Now this will create two files id_rs...

I finally found out how to delete network printers in windows 7.  One way is to login as administrator’s privileges’.  That is too easy. ...

I have setup our Exchange Server, DNS Servers and Google Apps to Dual Deploy our email and to act as a secondary mail server.   In my opinio...

Just a quick tip on monitoring the queries that mysql is handling on a production site. You can use the mysqladmin tool to return a list of...

LVM Snapshot script Used for copying a MySQL schema to a test environment There are so many ways to do this, but our need was to no...

I had an employee with the following problem.  They were unable to VPN and were receiving the errors in the Title.  They were also unable to...

Here is what I did. I was trying to add a new user, but I continued to get a message that Exchange was unavailable or offline.  Yet, no on...

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I bought a USB hard drive and it was formatted for apple with the GPT partion.  My windows XP machine recognized the hard drive, but not the...

cd to /var/spool/lp/admins/lp/interfaces vi the printer that you want to change the IP Address. Look for the line: PERIPH=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ...

There are two ways to start recording your interactive session in MySql. 1. From the Command line: (I'm only typing the command ...

I struggle to get the president of our company Iphone to work with our windows 2003 server.  I used this document to setup the IPhone. htt...

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I was a little surprise that the upgrade wasn't as seamless. I followed the instruction from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950050, b...

Why would you want to do that? Well there are many reasons, but most important is to get to the data. Here is how I do it. I use Ben's ...

I've made some changes to how I backup my Virtual servers. The other way I wasn't able to copy over the previous backup so I wasn...

The script I had for backing up my Windows 2005 Virtual server does not work in Windows 2008 using Hyper-v. So I started looking for anoth...

First run this command from a dos prompt and put in your MAK license Key. slmgr -ipk xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx http://support.microsoft....

I tried to remove a domain controller today from a virtual environment and was unable to. I found this article that shows you how to force ...

I found out that when you upgrade from Windows Virtual server 2005 to Hyper-v you want to remove the vmadditions from your windows maching p...

My host system has 4 virtual servers on it. When I upgrade the host from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 I now get an invalid license error in...

To create a shadow copy run this command. vshadow -scsf D: To list the shadow copies run this command. vssadmin list shadows To mount ...

I have Windows 2008 setup with Terminal Services running really well. I then changed the name of the server and Terminal server doesn't...

Microsoft has introduced SteadyState for locking down computers so the public or users don't ruin them. You can reset them. I read an a...

I've been trying to figure out a way to backup my virtual servers unto a External USB Hard drive. This server will be our disaster rec...

I wanted to replace a phone that was dead with one that my company let me borrow until the one that I ordered on ebay arrived. Here is what...

I've had this happen a couple of times. I tried to connect to the server using VMRC PLus and it would just hang. Here is what I've...

How to Upgrade from MySQL 4.1 to MySQL 5.1 I downloaded the files. MySQL-server-community-5.1.23-0.rhel4.i386.rpm MySQL-client-comm...