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Saving Private RAID ‘en

Over a week now I have been having serious performance issues with my private SAN (I am using OpenMediaVault) here at home. I noticed the issues and reviewed everything from services to software recently updated. Later to discover one of my HDD (Hard Disk Drives) in my RAID set were having issues The symptoms were that all […]

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SQL Server backup in multiple parts

“It’s so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there’s no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That’s pretty well known.” – Robert Atkins Recently I have been working with my dB Administrator to get some DR backups to our […]

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My 7zip backup excluding specific file types

I have been using 7zip to backup files on my system and recently wanted to exclude unwanted file types from my backups. File types such as Thumbs.db and .tmp files to be precise.  With the command line you’d use the “-x!” parameter. For example: C:Program Files7-Zip7z.exe a -t7z F:Backup.7z F:MyFiles*.* -r -x!*.db -x!*.tmp Here is […]

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Exchange 2010 SP2 | Mailbox Export Request

Exchange 2010 has many improvements.  As we know when things change they do not often stay the same. In this case the method used to export exchange email boxes to PST files. Back in a previous post I went over the steps of exporting a mailbox to PST. To do this all you needed was […]