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Do you backup your phone? I sure do.

On the security awareness blog is a post about losing your data.. on your phone.... and in the post they ask the readers if they backup the information in the phone.. or print it out as they couldn't recreate it easily. uh... wanna bet? I can. In fact Read More
posted Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:17 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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SBS "CAN" exist with other domain controllers Rob....

So Rob sent me a comment via the blog........and since he didn't give me an email address.. I have to address him via this way.  But before you click to download the updated 06-015 patch, or reboot your box for the iTunes/Delta hotfix for ISA 2004 Read More
posted Tuesday, April 25, 2006 5:10 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Hey Cool! I Dr. Watson'd!

Remember the other day when my cheap test box did this? http://msmvps.com/blogs/bradley/archive/2006/03/21/87198.aspx When I rebooted back into it tonight... Hey!  Cool!  I got a Dr. Watson!  And yeah.. I should at least set up a USB Read More
posted Saturday, April 08, 2006 10:12 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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To anyone who thinks that their tape backup runs slower after SP1

A tape backup device performs slowly after you install Windows Server 2003 SP1 or hotfix 873422: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=907418 You may be right....... Read More
posted Monday, February 06, 2006 6:42 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Got backup issues?

http://blogs.technet.com/edwalt/archive/2006/02/02/418665.aspx Wayne today happened to post that his home box suddenly could not backup and all his VSS writers vanished. Ed to the rescuse with that blog post about reregistering the VSS writers to the Read More
posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 8:46 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Rotations of Backups

At the MCPmag Handy Andy chat earlier today the conversation came up about tape/disk rotations....and the interesting comments surrounded the number of rotations depended on the clients needs for retaining data.  Many took a special backup once a Read More
posted Tuesday, January 17, 2006 9:46 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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So why do people think you need something special for restoring?

I find some of the comments to my "Drive monkey" posts funny... for one... I personally think that the robustness of USB drives versus tape is tied to whether the server natively supports USB 2.0 or you have a good USB card.  Then comes the follow Read More
posted Tuesday, January 17, 2006 9:18 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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So what does your Tape monkey change ...when you don't use tape?

Speaking as the office monkey here... I use Lacie harddrives now and as the 'drive monkey' I swap out the drives by turning off the power and unplugging the usb cable and power cord and swapping the devices out.  This ensures that I don't have that Read More
posted Tuesday, January 17, 2006 7:30 AM by bradley | 9 Comments
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Yes Virginia, sometimes USB Drives do go bad

So I've been using Lacie harddrives to do my backups and this morning I get the message that the backup failed and in the log file is this: Verify StatusOperation: Verify After BackupActive backup destination: FileActive backup destination: G:\Backup Read More
posted Wednesday, December 07, 2005 9:20 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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The importance of System State backup

When you perform a system state backup on a domain controller that is running Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 1, Backup may fail: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=909265 The moral of this KB is?  Don't move the log files. I haven't seen Read More
posted Monday, December 05, 2005 5:18 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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The restore

Always what comes up is the question of “do you test your restore?” But how do you test that restore?  The SBS podcast gang make the point of testing the restore... and I'll be flat out honest with you... I've renamed files off my box Read More
posted Sunday, December 04, 2005 11:00 AM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Ensuring those foundations are there

When you build a house in California, you pour a concrete slab and then build from there.  When you install a SBS 2003 system you install it on a server.  The foundation.  The slab.  And as long as your foundation is good and solid, Read More
posted Thursday, December 01, 2005 8:36 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Mr. Backup setup Wizard? Can you dump me to a log file please?

So I was rerunning the backupwizard to change to a new storage location here at home and I got this.... An unexpected error occurred (80070057) at the end of the configuration wizard.  Okay, I say, I'll just go find the backup wizard log... Read More
posted Saturday, November 12, 2005 6:06 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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How does one move data?

How does one move data from one machine to another?  A variety of ways... OEM - Using OEM computers I use the XP file and transfer wizard to transfer settings from one computer to another and then I 'hang' the old drive off the inside of the new Read More
posted Friday, October 28, 2005 12:30 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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So what's your backup plan?

Being the victims of the NTT/Verio shared web hosting meltdown over the last couple of days was a stark reminder of how important it is to have full redundancy at a different location for our very small business. We don't need much and we can't afford Read More
posted Tuesday, October 25, 2005 7:14 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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Do you backup your CALs?

Do you go inside the Licensing console and backup those CAL licenses?  What?  You don't?  You do realize that if you have to [heaven forbid] rebuild the server, that you will have to call up PSS/Licesnsing and reactivate the CALs.  Read More
posted Tuesday, September 20, 2005 11:39 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Mind telling me which one, dear?

So the backup failed last night and I remote in to look at the log file errors.... “Verify of "F:"Backup set #3 on media #1Backup description: "SBS Backup created on 9/19/2005 at 7:00 PM"Verify started on 9/19/2005 at 10:30 PM. Error: An inconsistency Read More
posted Tuesday, September 20, 2005 9:21 AM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Having a lot of log file history

My HP has lots of monitoring that it throws up in the Event logs and in today's monitoring email it told me that my Power supply number 2 kicked on.  Hmmm... so I remoted in and looked for all other instances of Event 4181.  My log files Read More
posted Sunday, August 28, 2005 3:15 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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A little conversion in order

So I get hit on IM that my backup failed.. HUH? You see I had put in the rotation a new Lacie harddrive tonight ... went off... and at 9:14 got hit on IM [I have my server set to hit me on email, cell phone messaging and IM with those monitoring error Read More
posted Friday, August 19, 2005 11:03 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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The data everywhere

Once upon a time a guy in the office bought a computer... a computer with a gig of harddrive space.  HUGE!  What in the world made you buy a harddrive so large?  You'll never use that much space! We said to him... Fast forward to today.... Read More
posted Thursday, August 04, 2005 7:01 PM by bradley | 2 Comments
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Backup backup backup backup backup backup backup oh and I did I say how about checking the backup?

So there you are backing up every night and it's going beautifully. Uh.. one thing. Have you checked that backup?  Gordon blogs about the lovely “case of the missing backup”.  Can't we all relate to that tale.  What you thought Read More
posted Friday, December 24, 2004 9:11 AM by bradley | 1 Comments
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Hey.. nice hack dude!

One day in the blogosphere and Sean Daniel of Seandaniel.com shares his SBS 2003 backup hack. Very cool!  Thanks Sean! Read More
posted Tuesday, October 05, 2004 8:17 PM by bradley | 0 Comments
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From today's mailbag... Ron asks about backups

Ron via Yahoo.com writes to “via E-Bitz:”  “I am looking for a decent solution for backing up a SBS 2003 Server with about 30 GB of user data.  The current Seagate Travan system is both slow and unreliable.  (Lifetime Read More
posted Wednesday, September 29, 2004 6:34 PM by bradley | 11 Comments
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Small Business Server 2003 – Backup and Restore CHAT

Small Business Server 2003 – Backup and RestoreJoin experts from the SBS team on June 30th 2004 to discuss tips, techniques, and best practices for SBS backup and restore. June 30, 20042:00 – 3:00 P.M. Pacific time 5:00 – 6:00 P.M. Read More
posted Tuesday, June 29, 2004 10:00 PM by bradley | 3 Comments
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Backing up Small Business Server 2003

Mike Gunderloy talks about “Backing up Small Business Server 2003” with two third party programs.  Currently on my office network I use Ultrabac backup software for SBS and I'm a fan.  At home on my SBS2k3 I use the native backup program and I honestly Read More
posted Thursday, June 03, 2004 6:13 PM by bradley | 1 Comments
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