Yosemite Backup for Tandberg Data Administrator is the supplied software, you get a trial version with the hardware. Now it seems to cope with my installed software on the server (Windows 2008 64 bit version which is a Domain Controller and also an Exchange 2007 SP1 server) now to backup the Exchange I’ll need to buy the Server Backup Plus as I need the Exchange Option, which happens to mean it’s going to be legal to install on 3 servers which will come in useful when I get Matrix and Neo back up and running.
it was dead easy to get going after the reboot for installing the drivers (not needed but it makes things easier to use the eject button which is built into the caddy of the mechanism). The first backup is running just now and is 4% done, not bad for a few minutes.
Do them regularly and have a schedule for them because if you are a lone person the last thing you’ll want is to loose those old photo’s or the downloaded music, now if your a company IT guy you are dealing with other peoples data not just the companies survival or not if it goes wrong. Now I just suffered a server go down because I changed something that shouldn’t have done it but it did and I was lucky my email is buffered off site for a few weeks in case just a thing occurs and it is just Exchange for the most part that seems affected and I can get in and save our data. I learnt there’s no such thing as never all over again and gone out to buy a Tandberg RDX QuikStor 160GB Removable Disk Cartridge and Enclosure to backup those files before I start reinstalling Windows and Exchange. The Tandberg is a good combination of space that has a chance to grow with the server and my data, current drives are up to 500GB, and speed because it is after all a hard disk and not some tape so it can be used to get your files off no mater what system was running on the server because it will in theory mount on anything. I’ll let you know when I get it but even the included software sounds pretty decent.
I know now / remember a lot more about my home domain because I bought http://www.elcomsoft.com/esr.html in the Pro version and it was so easy to use and powerful it loaded the Areca controller driver from my USB stick and I was in. Sadly the DC was not, I had been planning on making it before the accident but in the mean time my ML370 generation 2 has failed with a fan error, good thing you can get a recent later generation from EBay which will take the RAID card and also the hard disks for not a lot of money. So of to moving the card and the disks I go and then I’ll get into our files.
to Matrix using http://www.elcomsoft.com/ the next thing is the Domain Controller Neo but I’ve got confidence back from having found the right Areca controller from a USB stick and Neo is a Compaq real server with our real data on it
Everything is installed without problem (no surprise) and it looks very good and it’s addressed the one niggle I had with the previous beta – T-Mobile Connect support when running 64 bit version didn’t work and I was forced to download a version of the driver from T-Mobiles web site. I have a 32 bit version of Office running just fine while I wait for a 64 bit version which is coming when the beta is released later in the year. Now I’m not going to get involved with the games of predicting when this or that will be released and I’ll settle for when it’s ready. Now why does this effect a server user group, simple there is also a Windows Server 2008 R2 release due – I’m downloading that and I expect the same story when I fire that up in a Hyper-V machine later.
If anyone has an answer to either of these I be grateful if you leave a note here.
the first one came in an email today
“I have a SBS 2003 box all setup and running , and also a Net gear SSL-VPN concentrator , things were working fine meaning mu user in remote locations could connect to the VPN and access the shares, until I started to run the wizards that opened up the Remote Word Space SSL connection, now all my traffic seem to go to the URL on the 2003 server box instead of the SSL VPN URL . I am not sure how to either add a link on the 2003 web page that can point them to the SSL, or what the best configuration would be ? as all SSL connections all use port 443 , so I cannot really change the port mappings.”
The other one comes from me, I’ve got a copy of ERD Commander by WinInternals (now Microsoft) but it does not detect my Areca 1220 (SATA) RAID card and I cannot use it’s very powerful password recovery feature.
I got to the bottom of what is up with my original server – disk 8 cannot be detected or is somehow missing, the cable may be missing from the drive bay. The give away was that the controller is capable of RAID 6 and though drives 1 to 4 are the same size and detected 5 to 7 was detected and though 8 was their in it’s caddie it was not showing up in BIOS of the card.
This teaches me something importantly – document what you do. You could be looking at it one day, I’m lucky I remember what is in there from an Areca controller to the the type of server it is – Supermicro do some good work. It’ll be nice to figure out what is up with Matrix (the servers name) but at least I know it’s not the servers actual hardware.
Avoid the Linksys 160N (from Cisco now) I was unlucky enough to buy one that only had a version 1 firmware and no chance of an upgrade, their support was awful and very unhelpful apart from ‘can you reset everything back to factory defaults …’ not surprisingly that did not fix the problem of it loosing connection to the internet and dropping the wireless compatibly step forward the D-Link 655 which has survived 10 days and the latest firmware no trouble. It’s so trouble free it just sits in the office and works, no complaints at all, nothing like the Linksys heap of crap which is so troubled I’d not even give it away or keep it as a spare.
Before TEC was DEC and they were very good, I am sure the TEC’s are good too because I’ve not had a chance to attend one (I was involved in the accident a couple of months before the 2008 one). They have the advantage of being smaller than a TechEd and a lot higher level – they are not for the faint hearted but are very welcoming and the people are the best I’ve met at any of the tech things I go to regularly. Gil organises one hell of a good conference with speakers who really know there stuff. Highly recommended, it was no small part in my education and success in my career. This year’s is at http://www.tec2009.com/ and I know is very late for this year but you should go if you can and money and the shitty conditions allow, there will be another one next year and there is one in Europe.
if you are lucky enough to going to this year’s I’m jealous but for those who have thought of going I can recommend them - they the reason I’m where I am, they cost money to go to and spending money there but they are very good value. Now the first one I went to was back in 2001 at Atlanta and if you make an effort and don’t go mad they needed cost a fortune. So head over to http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2009/ and browse it, if your interested you’ll and you go you’ll not regret it.
I did not know this was still causing problems but if you need a self signed driver for 64 bit Windows there are very good instructions on the technique I use here, I did not know this was a great secret but it appears after years of using this technique that it is. Microsoft I feel had no choice they needed something to force the industry to get with the program and start signing their files and if your on a budget a can not afford anything they also provided the tools free but for for those that have a budget and will be distributing there files to everyone the signing codes are not very expensive but I agree with Mark they are overkill for one off’s and personal use. So good luck.
Have a look at the Migration Portal for a look at the way MS are developing the tools available to us all.
HSBC announced a 12.5 Billion through a right issue but on the back of a profit half the size of last year but still 6 Billion pounds – most of the redundancy’s will effect the states, not a bad choice because it was the purchase of Household that brought the exposure to the loss and a bunch of problems.
The bank still feels one I’m happy to have my money in and I’m still confident about my salary insurance being delivered – the only bank I can say that off if I honest.
The phone has been updated with a move to T-Mobile and their Vario 4, which has GPS and a very nice touch screen which is 640 by 256 and does a nice job of showing web pages and info in general. I got the Web and Walk add on for browsing on the phone, and the best thing it’s still cheaper than my old Orange contract each month. And I liked the C600 but it was well past it’s sell by date. It’s nice to have GPS now I don’t use more than Google Map’s but it’s nice to have and when I get out and about more will be useful for tracking where I am. Now the really useful bit is the slide out keyboard which is full QWERTY and for me is a real godsend because I’m not ready to use an onscreen keyboard. Now I cannot wait till Windows Mobile 6.5 comes out in June or July and I should have a free upgrade.
Now I’ve had the same number since my Scottish Telecom days in 1997 and it was nice once more to have it PAC’ed across today and with my contact taken care of by Exchange it was a doddle to move my life to see new phone.
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