[OT] Adaptec SATA RAID card upgrade

Does anyone know if it's possible to replace an old Adaptec 1210 SATA raid card with an Adaptec 1220 card? We have an old machine here that runs a legacy app with a 1210 card. It's started just dropping the raid array until we reboot the box. After a reboot the array appears again and everything is

Finding expired AD computer accounts

I'm sure there are many ways to achieve this outcome, but is there an easy way to identify expired computer accounts, i.e. machines that haven't communicated with AD for x months? ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Finding expired AD computer accounts

Google oldcmp.exe Very easy cmd line utility that's very powerful. Have not tested with 08 yet, but works great. From: cs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Finding expired AD computer accounts I'm sure there are

backup for vista

Anybody have a good personal standalone backup for vista? It seems like vista ultimate will only backup the whole computer or your user settings. It does not seem like you can backup individual files or folders. andyandy ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~

Re: Finding expired AD computer accounts

gogle: Joeware ADFind. On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:25 AM, cs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure there are many ways to achieve this outcome, but is there an easy > way to identify expired computer accounts, i.e. machines that haven't > communicated with AD for x months? > > > > > > ~ Finally, po

Re: Finding expired AD computer accounts

Oops! Wrong Tool. Google: Joeware - OldCmp. On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:38 AM, MarvinC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gogle: Joeware ADFind. > > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:25 AM, cs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm sure there are many ways to achieve this outcome, but is there an easy >> way to ide

RE: Is the list down? No message so far this morning.

Hehe... BTW: You should be careful if you "fell" while old... you could break a hip. -sc From: Jim Majorowicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 2:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Is the list down? No message so far this morning. *snickers* The

Re: Finding expired AD computer accounts

That's great, oldcmp looks great for processing expired machines in batch - just the job. Thanks guys. On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:39 PM, MarvinC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oops! Wrong Tool. Google: Joeware - OldCmp. > > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:38 AM, MarvinC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> gog

RE: Measuring Scsi speed

A quick and dirty solutions would be to use PerfMon to see the difference in your hard drive speed (bytes/sec). Maybe PRTG? Thanks, Jake Gardner TTC Network Administrator Ext. 246 From: David Lloyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2

RE: Finding expired AD computer accounts

I've used http://cwashington.netreach.net/depo/view.asp?Index=1032 , it checks based on the password age of the pc. Thanks, Jake Gardner TTC Network Administrator Ext. 246 From: cs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:18 AM To: NT

RE: Measuring Scsi speed

We used to use a script to generate a huge junk file and back that up to tape and measure speed with whatever backup software we were using and determine speed with that. One big file fills the buffer, etc and shows faster speeds that a bunch of little smaller files do. A bunch of smaller files wi

How to monitor deletion of user accounts

Any thoughts on how to monitor the deletion of user accounts? I know to look for event code 630 in the security log, but this gets cumbersome across multiple domain controllers. I was thinking about trying to have the DC's log this information to a Cisco Mars box. If anyone has any info to share

Re: How to monitor deletion of user accounts

You could configure an Operations Manager rule to collect these events up for you, if you used it. 2008/11/5 Thomas Mullins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Any thoughts on how to monitor the deletion of user accounts? I know to > look for event code 630 in the security log, but this gets cumbersome > acro

RE: How to monitor deletion of user accounts

You could use LogParser http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=890cd06b-abf8-4 c25-91b2-f8d975cf8c07&displaylang=en It can grab EventViewer logs and you can parse it SQL style. Script it and loop through your DC's, then dump the data pretty much anywhere you want. Thanks,

RE: Finding expired AD computer accounts

Dsquery computer -inactive X (x=number of weeks desired) There's more you can do with dsquery. I also use the Joeware tool. :^) Don Guyer Systems Engineer Information Services Prudential Fox Roach/ Trident 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Ph: (610) 993-3299 Fax: (610)

RE: How to monitor deletion of user accounts

I don't know if you're looking for free, low cost or what, but we use Active Administrator for reporting on modifications to user accounts, OUs, GPOs, etc. Don Guyer Systems Engineer Information Services Prudential Fox Roach/ Trident 431 W. Lancaster Avenue Devon, PA 19333 Ph: (610) 993-3299 Fax:

Old computer and user accounts

>From somewhere in my memory I seem to think that old computer or user accounts should not be deleted. I seem to remember having issues after I did that at some point in the past but since I now have SCE in my network it would be very nice to have it discover new machines as they are added. I can

DNS hosting services

Good morning list, I'm going to need to migrate our external DNS, who we've been perfectly happy with for some years now, due to some unrelated business decisions. I'd like to hear some suggestions from you as to who I might shop for this service. We're a global organization, with about 100 d

RE: USB printers on 2003 Server

Per your advice, I'm taking a step back from what I was trying to do. I hooked my Zebra TLP2824 directly to a USB port on my 2003 Server. When I try to install it, I get the warning that the drivers are not signed (or something to that effect). I tell it to continue anyway, and it looks like it'

RE: How to monitor deletion of user accounts

Usually a quick and dirty way is psloglist and eventcombmt to gather the 630's from the domain controllers. Z Edward E. Ziots Network Engineer Lifespan Organization Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 401-639-3505 MCSE, MCP+I, ME, CCA, Security +, Network + -Original Message- From: Thomas Mu

Measuring Scsi speed

Hi all, Does anyone know of a script / program I can run on a windows 2003 server to check i/o speed to an external scsi tape drive? Thanks David ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ ~

RE: How to monitor deletion of user accounts

We don't track deleted accounts, but we do track deleted groups, users added to high-privilege groups and other things through this exact method. It is quite easy to write the MOM/Ops Manager rules to do this collection and reporting. Malcolm From: James Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: How to monitor deletion of user accounts

Thanks Jake, That looks like just the trick. Shane -Original Message- From: Jake Gardner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:44 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: How to monitor deletion of user accounts You could use LogParser http://www.microsoft

Upgrade DCs from 2003 to 200 R2

Any pitfalls here anyone would like to warn me about? J Domain and Forrest functional levels are already Windows 2003. I gather there's a "higher" level with the R2 release? Thanks. Philip Hershey ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: Upgrade DCs from 2003 to 200 R2

What is 200 R2? I assume you mean 2003 R2. If so, there is no "higher" level that I am aware of. From: Phil Hershey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 10:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Upgrade DCs from 2003 to 200 R2 An

RE: DNS hosting services

Mark, I've used DNS Made Easy (www.dnsmadeeasy.com) for a few years with zero problems. There costs are very reasonable and they have globally distributed servers which should work well for you. -Jeff > -Original Message- > From: mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, Novem

RE: Upgrade DCs from 2003 to 200 R2

Assuming you mean 2003 R2 :), no there are no higher levels and there are no pitfalls. It is a non-event. The upgrade reminds me of a 'Feature Pack' like they had for windows 98. Some good stuff if you need it, and we certainly did for our file servers...but no big deal to do the upgrade. From

RE: USB printers on 2003 Server

I used to work in a factory that had loads of Zebra brand printers. We used D-Link print servers for our needs. They were parallel port models but I would guess they would also have USB ones. Each of the print servers run a web server and you can connect up and setup things like IP Address and t

Re: Upgrade DCs from 2003 to 200 R2

There are additional "features" but it would depend on if you need or want them as to if it was worth the effort. Jon On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:15 AM, David Mazzaccaro < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is 200 R2? > I assume you mean 2003 R2. > If so, there is no "higher" level that I am aware

RE: Old computer and user accounts

We disable them, place them in an OU and delete after 3 months. IIRC, the "thou shall not delete user and computer accounts" was back in the NT days, where there was a "limited" amount of IDs available. It's a fuzzy memory, so take it with salt. :^) Don Guyer Systems Engineer Informat

RE: Upgrade DCs from 2003 to 200 R2

You have to extend the schema, but there is no higher domain functionality. From: Phil Hershey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 10:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Upgrade DCs from 2003 to 200 R2 Any pitfalls here anyone would like to warn me about? J

RE: Upgrade DCs from 2003 to 200 R2

Yep, my three key sticks sometimes. J I gather there's a different functional level with R2, since I've just brought up a new R2 server on a new network segment, and when I tried to DCPROMO it, it reported our forest/domain were not at the proper level. Yet when I go to any of the Win2k3 DCs, th

Re: Old computer and user accounts

I was thinking it was something more current than NT4 like 2000 running in mixed mode but either way that is good to know. All of the ones I want to dump are at least 6 months in my holding OU. Jon On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Don Guyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > We disable them, place th

RE: Upgrade DCs from 2003 to 200 R2

There is a schema update that needs to be applied, but there is no new functional level. ...Tim From: Phil Hershey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 7:24 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Upgrade DCs from 2003 to 200 R2 Yep, my three key sticks sometimes. :

Re: Old computer and user accounts

I archive the departed user's email if needed then delete the account usually with a day or two of the person leaving. Old computer accounts are deleted on a regular basis usually long after the user has departed. - Original Message - From: "Jon Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT Syst

Determine os version

Anyone have a quick PS or other cmd to show the version of a server 08 core machine. I need to know if it is 32 or 64 bit and std or enterprise. Tried connecting with server manager from a vista machine but it can't find the server. In the mean time, I'll be troubleshooting the remote connection

RE: How to monitor deletion of user accounts

A few more goodies if you want to go this route. ElSave allows you to save and clear an event log, http://www.ibt.ku.dk/jesper/ELSave/ LogParserLizard, it's a gui for LogParser Here's what you'd type on the cmd line on a server to get what you want, logparser -i:EVT -o:CSV -stats:OFF "SELECT *

Any FileNet users

If there's any FileNet-using folks out there I have a problem I would like got some insight on (off-line to keep from boring everyone else). Any insight would be appreciated. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: DNS hosting services

I've used easydns in the past with great success for about 30 or so domains, bought first a block of 10, then a block of 25 ... Not only hosted, but YOU make your own adds/changes/deletes via their gui , instead of waiting for a add/change/delete request making it through a ticketing system Eri

Re: Upgrade DCs from 2003 to 200 R2

We needed to upgrade to implement DFSR, and it was a smooth transition. We have a root domain with four subdomains and approx 70 DC's scattered about the globe, and had zero problems from beginning to end. - Original Message - From: Phil Hershey To: NT System Admin Issues Sent

RE: Any FileNet users

What filenet system are you referring to? The Filenet document image system, or the ibm ( I believe) system with the same name? From: Charles Whitby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 10:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Any FileNet users If there's any Fi

Re: Upgrade DCs from 2003 to 200 R2

+1. Its like a feature pack. There should be no issues. -- ME2 On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Kennedy, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Assuming you mean 2003 R2 J, no there are no higher levels and there are no > pitfalls. It is a non-event. The upgrade reminds me of a 'Feature Pack' like >

RE: Upgrade DCs from 2003 to 200 R2

If it weren't for having to restart the DCs, I could do it during business hours. J - Philip This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietary, confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any

RE: Determine os version

In powershell: Gwmi -computername tester -class Win32_OperatingSystem | fl caption, osarchitecture -troy -Original Message- From: Glen Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 7:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Determine os version Anyone have a qu

Find Recently Modified Files

I'm looking for something other than Windows search that will show me files modified in the last X days. For example give me a list of every file modified in the last 2 days or since X date. Seems pretty simple. Gracias ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

RE: backup for vista

You can cheat and install ntbackup ;) http://www.petri.co.il/installing_windows_xp_ntbackup_on_windows_vista.htm -troy -Original Message- From: andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 5:35 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: backup for vista Anybody have a

RE: DNS hosting services

We use dnsmadeeasy.com. They've hosted ~100 domains for us for the last few years. No problems. -Original Message- From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 10:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: DNS hosting services I've used easydns in t

Re: backup for vista

Wonder if this would work with Server 2008. I really miss NTBackup... On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Troy Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > You can cheat and install ntbackup ;) > > http://www.petri.co.il/installing_windows_xp_ntbackup_on_windows_vista.htm > > > -troy > > -Original Me

Re: Any FileNet users

IBM bought FileNet a couple of years ago, so they're the same. On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Steve Kelsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What filenet system are you referring to? The Filenet document image > system, or the ibm ( I believe) system with the same name? > > > > *From:* Charles Whit

RE: Any FileNet users

OK, Our support is another company. If they are the same, we use it, but I am not the expert. Let me know your questions and I will see who is the best to answer it. Offline address is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Charles Whitby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 11:14 A

RE: Upgrade DCs from 2003 to 200 R2

Thanks, Ken. I'd forgotten about having to extend the schema. I'll have to do that this weekend or otherwise after hours. REPADMIN reports no fails or inappropriate deltas. - Philip This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietar

RE: Find Recently Modified Files

Simple? Dir c:\ /s /o:d Copy-n-paste the last two days of stuff. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[E

RE: Measuring Scsi speed

Iometer from Microsoft should be able to do that just fine. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: David Lloyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Se

RE: Find Recently Modified Files

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Find Recently Modified Files Simple? Dir c:\ /s /o:d Copy-n-paste the last two days of stuff. Hey M, It will be very hard to "Copy-n-paste" if there is no redirection to an output file. Dir c:\ /s /o:d > modfiles

Re: Find Recently Modified Files

I think tree size pro will do that. On 11/5/08, Martin Blackstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for something other than Windows search that will show me files > modified in the last X days. > > For example give me a list of every file modified in the last 2 days or > since X date. >

RE: backup for vista

Acronis TrueImage Home very well. Automates the entire process with full or differential backups, is fast to backup, simple to restore and easy to manage. I purchased version 11.x; the newest version (2009) came out a few weeks ago. http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

OT: Boston area professionals

There is a Network Administrator position open in the Downtown Crossing area that I have influence over. I wouldn't normally post something like this here, but given the economic climate, etc, it seems potentially wasteful not to. If you are in the local job market, feel free to contact me for deta

RE: Determine os version

Gave it a shot just for the heck of it... The term 'Gmwi' is not recognized as a cmdlet, function, operable program, or script file. Verify the term and try agai n. At line:1 char:5 What am I doing wrong? Christopher J. Bosak Vector Company c. 847.603.4673 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You need to install

RE: Find Recently Modified Files

From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Find Recently Modified Files Eh? You can copy-n-paste from a cmd shell window. Edit -> Mark -> Select -> Enter But you forgot that we are dealing with Martin here. That means he will have millions of files altered in the la

RE: Determine os version

Maybe the fact he said gwmi and you typed gmwi? -Original Message- From: Christopher J. Bosak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 10:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Determine os version Gave it a shot just for the heck of it... The term 'Gmwi' is n

RE: Determine os version

To the coffee machine. Thanks. Christopher J. Bosak Vector Company c. 847.603.4673 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You need to install an RTFM Interface, due to an LBNC issue." - B.O.F.H. (Merged 2 into 1) - Me -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, N

RE: Determine os version

Yeah that might do it. I am sorry, I should have used the whole command-let phrase to simplify. You can use get-wmiobject and that will probably make more sense and give less chance for error. -Troy -Original Message- From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, No

RE: Find Recently Modified Files

TreeSize Pro seems to be more than willing to show oldest but not the newest. -Original Message- From: Don Ely [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Find Recently Modified Files I think tree size pro will do that.

RE: Measuring Scsi speed

If it is an HP tape drive, their free tape tools utility (used mainly for updating the firmware) has built in test for tape speed as well as hard drive speed. From: David Lloyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:42 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Measuring Sc

Re: Measuring Scsi speed

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:42 AM, David Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of a script / program I can run on a windows 2003 server to > check i/o speed to an external scsi tape drive? To build upon other replies: I would try a combination of real-world and "synthetic" tests.

Re: Find Recently Modified Files

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Martin Blackstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for something other than Windows search that will show me files > modified in the last X days. Try this: GFIND -daystart -type f -a -mtime -2 where "GFIND" is the GNU "find" utility, ported to M

RE: OSX machines suddenly can't connect to Win2003 PDC

I don't use ADmitMac, and at this time it's cost prohibitive. I unbound one Mac from the domain and now cannot rejoin it. It gives me the invalid forest/domain entered which just means it can't see the server. I tried resetting the machine account on another Mac, but the server reports it's not cu

RE: USB printers on 2003 Server

Have a look at this: http://www.zebra.com/id/zebra/na/en/index/products/printers/desktop/tlp2824. html Zebra ("Zebra's Desktop series thermal printers") print drivers are not Windows Server compatible. Zebra recommends ZebraNet PrintServers. It might work with other brands. Use only newest printing

Virtual Center down more than 14 days

Anyone know what to do if you virtual center is down past 14 days? I have it running as a virtual machine and cannot boot it up anymore. The virtual center says there is not enough licenses. Best Regards, Phil ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: Find Recently Modified Files

That utility is actually called find - I think, Ben, that you've renamed it for your own installation. Definitely understandable, since the Windows 'find' command is both useless and not for the same purpose as the gnu find command. Still, this is definitely the way I'd go, though if Martin can't

RE: Virtual Center down more than 14 days

there is not enough licenses. Best Regards, Phil __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3588 (20081105) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN

HP switch "ip-helper" command

Got a potential customer wanting to put all his prod servers in my datacenter including DHCP with a metroE WAN. He wants to go switch to switch using HP 2850s. I'm a Cisco guy so I'm wondering if HP has an equivalent to the Cisco ip-helper command that can be applied on a interface (physical

Re: HP switch "ip-helper" command

Sure does... On each VLAN, put the following: ip helper-address So, one of my vlans looks like this: vlan 124 name "VLAN124" ip address 192.168.24.1 255.255.255.0 ip helper-address 192.168.10.191 tagged 40-47 This is on my core switch, a 3400cl. On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:51 PM, A

RE: Virtual Center down more than 14 days

center is down past 14 days? I have it running as a virtual machine and cannot boot it up anymore. The virtual center says there is not enough licenses. Best Regards, Phil __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3588 (20081105) __ The

RE: Virtual Center down more than 14 days

st Regards, Phil __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3588 (20081105) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com _ This e-mail,

RE: Virtual Center down more than 14 days

st Regards, Phil __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3588 (20081105) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com _ This e-mail,

RE: Find Recently Modified Files

Logparser can parse files and directory. I use it to monitor changes on my file shares to keep an eye on things -Original Message- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 11:06 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Find Recently Modified

RE: HP switch "ip-helper" command

Sweet Kurt, thanks so much! Shook -Original Message- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 4:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: HP switch "ip-helper" command Sure does... On each VLAN, put the following: ip helper-address So, one of m

RE: Virtual Center down more than 14 days

al center says there is not enough licenses. Best Regards, Phil __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3588 (20081105) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus.

ESX backup solutions?

We are looking at some packages for backups and the like of ESX guests. Most things I've seen say that VCB comes up a bit short, and the two products I've seen much about are vRanger, and esXpress. Any experiences, anecdotes, etc on either of these? Other options worth looking into? Da

RE: ESX backup solutions?

We use vRanger Pro for ESX images – but we also backup in the guest too using our standard network backup software.  - Andy O. From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 4:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: ES

RE: ESX backup solutions?

We use vRanger also. The provides a means of restoring the virtual machine. For speed of file restores, though, we still do D2D backups of the file systems separately. No experience with the others. vRanger does have a means of restoring individual files, but it is very time-consuming, since i

Re: Find Recently Modified Files

To use a nice new, more native tool With this as inspiration http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/yli628/archive/2008/01/28/powershell-script-to-list-files-modified-after-a-certain-date.aspx PS:> $DateToCompare = (Get-date).AddDays(-2) PS:> Get-Childitem –recurse | where-object {$_.lastwritetime –gt $

RE: ESX backup solutions?

Damien, I've used esXpress for about 1.5 years and I highly recommend it. All in all, it's a fast, inexpensive, and easy to use product. I back up to an 8TB NAS box via FTP then copy full backups to external USB drives weekly for off-site storage. You can backup to a VMFS volume, or use FTP,

RE: Find Recently Modified Files

This was a great one. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 11:22 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Find Recently Modified Files On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Martin Blackstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm

RE: ESX backup solutions?

We are looking at a combo of VCB and standard NetBackup file agent within the VM guest OS. What are the shortcomings of VCB you are worried about? -sc -Original Message- From: Andy Ognenoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 5:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues

Re: backup for vista

I've been looking at Vista backup solutions during the last few days since I had to replace my home XP system with one running Vista, and found my old version of Ghost isn't compatible with Vista. I saw complaints about corrupted backups with Acronis that concerned me, though I have the impress

RE: backup for vista

I've only been using it a few weeks, but all my test restores (individual files, not complete images) have been 100% successful. Just received this offer this evening: Save 15% on Acronis TrueImage Home: http://www.wugnet.com/affiliates/default.asp?pageid=1522 Roger Wright Network Adminis

Re: backup for vista

Did you verify the backups? That seems to be one of the main points where the backup is reported as corrupt. I found the discussion about this I was referring to at http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=185256 and I see that even though they are recent posts, they mostly reference ver

RE: backup for vista

I received EMC's Retrospect with an external drive I purchased recently, and I have been very happy with it - I've even performed a full restore recently, and had no problems. Sean Rector, MCSE -Original Message- From: andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:3