Note: There is a much more current article on how to do this here. We have five hard drives, two SCSI controllers, and an external drive cabinet: (1) 3 Gig IDE in the CPU cabinet hooked up to the primary IDE channel (1) 4 Gig SCSI hard drive in the CPU cabinet hooked up to […]
How to implement RAID 5 and RAID 1 with NT Server
Ftape configuration
Believe it or not, we have been struggling for almost four years to get our tape drive to work. We originally had an FC-20 with a 768 meg native 3020 Colorado tape drive. By the time the kernel and ftape had caught up to our model, we had replaced it with an Iomega Ditto Max […]
Scheduling backup of directories with tar and cron:
Tar is quite useful for copying directory trees, and is much more powerful than cp. To copy directory /home/myhome/myimportantfiles to /share/myhome/myimportantfiles: cd /home/myhome/myimportantfiles tar -cvf – . | tar -C /share/myhome/myimportantfiles/ -xv To schedule this to happen every day at 1am: crontab -e vi will run. If you are unfamiliar with vi, push ‘i’ to […]
Simple multi-tape backup with tar / Standby File/Print Server
We have a share available via NFS called share. All of our software, documents, versions of websites are on this share. It doesn’t contain any live systems stuff, but it is quite large. We bought a 15/30 gig DLT drive for cheap on Ebay, and some used DLT tapes to go with it. Many of […]
SYSLINUX
[Updated 8/27/02] SYSLINUX is a bootloader for Linux using MS-DOS floppies. It is good to learn how to create your own SYSLINUX recovery diskettes for disaster recovery. [On a related topic, check out SuperRescue CD. SuperRescue is an iso image you can burn to a CD. The CD is bootable and has a suite of […]
Quickie backup over the net with GNU tar
If you want to back up a bunch of files over a network (or locally), one approach is to go into the directory you want to back up, and execute: tar cvpf – . | tar xpv -C /share/backupetc092901 This will save permissions, as well as grab hidden files, dates, symbolic links, /dev stuff, etc. […]
Using Last Known Good Configuration To Restore an NT System
In this article we used the Windows 2000 recovery console to fix the filesystem on an NT server. Let’s use the recovery console to make a BSOD. We’ll just disable a required boot service: Let’s reboot: Nice!! That is what we wanted. Now, we could boot again and fix with the recovery console: That works […]
Finding Files Over a Certain Size
Try this: find . -type f -size +90M -exec ls -l -h {} \;
Creating an NT Emergency Repair Disk
Rdisk is used to recover your system from boot problems, registry problems, or OS corruption. Run rdisk by start->run->rdisk. You can specify /s if you wish to restore your security permissions. Rdisk is a little misleading. You might assume that simply pushing the Create Repair Disk button would work, but it doesn’t. Make sure you […]
Recovering an NT System With an Emergency Repair Disk
To use the Emergency Repair Disk we created in this article, you need to boot with the three NT setup disks that can be created by running winnt32: If you don’t have an NT box, you can use the NT distribution cd from MS-DOS or a Windows 95/98 command prompt and run winnt /ox. Boot […]
