I want to buy a domain name. I plan to set up my own A, NS, and MX records using Slicehost. So I guess I just need the cheapest place, right?
How much I should be paying for .com or .org?
@hobodave Letting people know the full reason for a question helps to get better answers. If you're looking to get any hard drive cheaper than but comparable to the Dell PowerEdge R610, the solutions differ from if you were looking to get an exact replacement for that model.
Hi, does anyone have an experience with recovering an exchange database? I lost all the transaction logs from a 400 GB database, it's in a dirty shutdown state :(
Yeah, that's about all you can do (assuming no backups...), and the last time I ran it, it was about 10min/GB (every DB is different of course). Hope you took a copy before starting the /p as it destroys anything it can't fix.
I don't know what to do, I don't think they will accept being another day without an email, I suppose I will have to recreate mailboxes to get emails coming in and then somehow get the old emails from the old database
just had a great call with HP's 3Par guys - managed to sort out a really good discount structure - reckon I'm going to be buying their kit as default now over XP/EVA :)
I welcome any suggestions, the server itself is running, I created more another storage group and a new email database. If I create a new user, everything works, the problem is how to restore the current users
the management wouldn't accept to be without emails for another day
Well I know zero about Exchange, but I was thinking that if it's going to take some time for you to repair their mailboxes, you could possibly set up a different mailserver which would just accept and hold all mail for them, so as you get mailboxes fixed the backup MX could deliver email... that way, the emails sent today aren't bouncing
If email is that important to management then they need to fund it that way. Perhaps time to see if one of the places like mimecast (other vendors are available, I'm just a happy customer) that give you filtering + journalling + webmail can take you on in this state so you can get mail flowing to them and accessable via webmail
if I delete the current users and create them new mailboxes in a different database the email will start coming in, it would take ages to recover the old mails though and I don't even know if exchange allows to delete/disable users when the database isn't mounted
Josh is right, that's a potential downside of any mitigation right now. Sometimes people have to accept that - you know what - sometimes things take as long as they take.
I'd say that going through creating a "backup" to hold mail until the primary is repaired is counterproductive because by the time you get it sorted out you'll have the other database hosed or repaired.
If you have it working and in your current situation, start remaking mailboxes, keep working on recovering from your old database and migrate old emails later.
@BartSilverstrim I agree. It really depends on if the users' primary complain is "I want access to my email now!" or "I don't want to lose any emails!"
The trouble is with people "not accepting" lack of email. I've been there, we've all been there, but sometimes people can "accept" or "not accept" all they like but ya still canna change the laws of physics
If anything from the "non tech" people in charge of firing you is "critical" to have running with little downtime, you need a plan in place for recovering your server if your server were to burst into flames tomorrow.
@BartSilverstrim - agreed. They can accept they're not cheap, then say "We can't afford it so we're not doing it" but they then can't complain if it turns out they need it
My company develops and hosts a custom eCommerce and CMS system. We provide this only under a hosted, software-as-a-service model. We are in full control of the hosting environment, and our customers have no control over the source code. They cannot deploy on their own hardware; they have to leas...
@BartSilverstrim The state archivist has set up a suggested retention time frame that we are encouraged to follow, but are allowed to deviate from so long as it is documented. Things like HIPAA that actually have retention requirements are a whole different ball of waxy substance.
@BartSilverstrim Yeah, HIPAA changes a lot of things. We have the advantage of pawning a lot of those compliance responsibleness on the individual entities within the university.
I was going to say: Post LOTS of snarky messages with grains of truth in them and get a good voting ration for the grains while others clean up the nasty... but your way of saying it works too
Hello,
Are there any blogs/ recommended readings on how to setup/configure/manage large ( 500 + ) unix servers in a single / multiple data center ?
I am trying to understand best practices, network design suggestions as well.
Thanks
Setting up any kinda datacentre from scratch isn't, with all due respect, coverable in one question here or anywhere else. It's a book's worth of planning and lots of questions.
Hello,
I am using Ubuntu 10.10.
I am generally good with computers but mostly with Windows, I'm not very familiar with Ubuntu. I'm trying to setup a website and I'm talking with a friend I have who works for a school IT department who is giving me advice.
He told me that I need to open a comma...
I am trying to secure a Linux server but i even also want to know the types of vulnerabilities associated and the attacks that happen and how so that i can completely understand securing a server
right but i'm looking for an article that supports the testbed approach
here's something interesting but it's a bit old: jstor.org/pss/249468 Organizational Mechanisms for enhancing user innovation in information technology
It's probably covered in the "Practice of Systems and Network Administration," ha. Testing things before full deployment is a rather fundamental practice.
@SLY You could always ask the question on the main board like most questions are, this really is just a chat space, we rarely answer anything more complex than lunch suggestions here
You'll probably get a few cuts from people scratching their heads as to why your managers won't understand the concept of testing before potentially damaging production systems...
@BartSilverstrim Re: case studies as a sales tool, I've got no problem with that, except when they sell management a bill of goods and it don't work they cry to me, not the sales droid :-/
@BartSilverstrim LIsten? To an engineer? What do we know? We just studied this shit for years and spent our professional careers designing systems that don't break. We know nothing about the real world :-D
I am available by the way, as an external consultant, to tell your bosses exactly what any of you want me to tell them, but in management-bullshit-speak :)
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@BartSilverstrim "I have a database on this USB key with valuable irreplaceable company data in it. It's not backed up anywhere. I want to rip the key out of my system without properly stopping the DB server. Why can't I do this?"
I especially like the part about "Oh I have no clue what I'm doing with Postgres, so I'll just shoot random processes in the head until the volume isn't in use anymore!"
@sysadmin1138 I think they're just as readable as unix lines until you hit some of the more complex logic like loops, ifs, etc; then it's just a f-ing bee's nest.
After the questions like how to empty /dev/null and then this guy running a database from a volume he wants to remove...while the application is running...and then getting downvoted for saying that's not smart to do that? Today is just weird.
@alvosu your understanding of pg_start_backup()/pg_stop_backup() is not quite correct -- it does not quiesce the DB, it just rolls a new WAL segment and makes a marker so you can copy the data away
And it would be silly to encrypt the volume with the database just to quick-flush it to something else that's not encrypted. Why is it even something to argue...close the application if that's what you're using to store the database and you're removing it. Why is that more difficult?
If it's a dupe, lemme know and redirect me and I'm on my way guys.
I'm a dev on Visual Studio, I have 2005, 2008 and 2010 installed atm, along with VB6, and SqlServer Dev 2005, 2008 installed as well, not to mention various and sundry developer's tools like Notepad++ and ReSharper and Reflector....
@BartSilverstrim if it gets me the answers to my question and saves almost all my data (and preferably reinstalls my tools and buys me a new pony) then yes
@BartSilverstrim then in that case, is shutting down the server necessary to remove the volume? doesn't seem like it is
@drachenstern no harm you coming here, we won't berate you, honest, though you may not get a better answer here than on the main board - we talk about cheese and biscuits in this room
@BartSilverstrim that's ok, so long as he types real slow, us Southerners should be able to understand him plain enough ;)
@BartSilverstrim then you can't remove the volume, regardless, because the next time the application server starts up won't it try to open those same files? Alternately, removing the volume (if permitted at all) will cause the server (in one sense or another) to crash, no?
@drachenstern In the particular case we're discussing (serverfault.com/questions/232245) postgres would just refuse to start if its data directory is missing/invalid
@BartSilverstrim Postgres is pretty picky about its data directory -- you'll get something to the effect of "postmaster cannot access the server configuration file "/tmp/postgresql.conf": No such file or directory"
@Zoredache well, so it's my desktop, but at work..., but I'm referring to the fact that I'm on a Windows Domain at the office and we have mixed profiles so I've not got a NT6 profile on the network.
I was torn between SF and SU because of that, but this is definitely a work issue, not for my home
@Chopper3 "You're obviously just flailing about trying to make the dialog box go away. Your input devices are in a 15 minute time-out now. Try READING the damn error message while you wait. Error Code PEBKAC-001."
@Zoredache I am the user, not the network admin. I know they can pitch in if I ask them, but I also know their plates are full. And until it gets done I'm working on a machine that may fall over at any moment (again) so am trying to expedite the process.
I do not, however, have the machinename(or IP) so can't begin to actually migrate anything
Still my point is that your question is more of an end-user question. As a sysadmin, I would simply transfer an image of your box to a VM so you could restore things later, and then rebuild.
after a couple issues with exchange nad outbound email, the presidents of my company want to switch to google apps...
i know nothing about google apps, and im pretty familiar with exchange
they want to know the benefits of going to google apps vs the down side of leaving exchange
can anyone he...
@drachenstern It can really be reduced to the "outsourced versus in-house services" discussion. If someone can spot a nice question that covers that ground we could close it as a dupe.
@voretaq7, I don't agree that it is entirely outsourced vs in-house. There is a huge difference in the features offered by Google Apps and Exchange. With many drawbacks for each side. I am not aware of any single table or resource that does a feature by feature comparison of the two.
@DanBig Just having a weird situation with my maintenance plans. They started failing when I pointed them to backup to another server. Found a quick fix that said to add a '\' to the start of the package path in the actual job itself.
Hello,
Are there any blogs/ recommended readings on how to setup/configure/manage large ( 500 + ) unix servers in a single / multiple data center ?
I am trying to understand best practices, network design suggestions as well.
Thanks
I am trying to secure a Linux server but i even also want to know the types of vulnerabilities associated and the attacks that happen and how so that i can completely understand securing a server
after a couple issues with exchange nad outbound email, the presidents of my company want to switch to google apps...
i know nothing about google apps, and im pretty familiar with exchange
they want to know the benefits of going to google apps vs the down side of leaving exchange
can anyone he...
