..by Guillaume Ross
If it appears your subplan to delete backup files is not deleting anything though the logs report the job as working ok, make sure you’re only specifying ONE extension in the options, and that you do not put a dot or any other special character! So create one subplan for bak and one for trn..
In an attempt to see if it was worth it to switch to Google’s DNS, I made a quick performance comparison.
Using DNS Performance Test (DPT) , a tool that uses a random list of domain names, I tested performance over 500 (502 to be precise) queries. First, to my ISP’s servers, then to 8.8.8.8 (Google’s).
This test is far from scientific as I ran both test back to back, didn’t try multiple periods in the day, etc. But whatever, it’s fun !
ISP / Google
Worst Query time: 1166ms / 880ms
Average query time: 167ms / 145ms
Timeouts: 8 / 4
So it would seem that for now Google is slightly faster. However, this is probably nowhere near enough to convince me to give Google some even more logs to profile me, no matter what the privacy policy says..
Here is a list of what I used last week, right after taking the ICM course for vSphere, in order to pass my VCP exam.
This little document packs a lot of punch, read it a few times !
This document is longer, and includes a lot of interesting info about vSphere. Could be just what you need if upgrading from an older certification !
And finally, I used a few test exams:
VCP vSphere 4 Practice Exam – The SLOG – SimonLong/Blog.
All exams from Simon Long were useful, the ones concentrating on the maximums will help you know if you know that stuff by heart as you should. Be aware that I felt that the actual exam was a good 20-25% harder than the test questions of the main test exam.
I then used the mock exam from VMware (you can find it after login into myLearn).
Be sure not to attempt the test exams before you are relatively sure you’re ready, as they don’t have many questions and doing them too fast will then make them useless as you will already know most questions and answers. VMware’s mock exam felt a bit easier than the real one too, by about 10-15%.
Good luck to everyone!
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Latest build of Chromium 4 as my default browser for a week, on OS X.
Let’s see how I can survive this.
First step: Install AdBlock+ And Subscribe to EasyList. That was why I could never survive Chrome before. Oh well that and the fact that the window decorations on Chrome for Windows make me want to jump out of the Window. (no pun in…yeah it was intended).
If you are trying to perform EFS recovery by backing up encrypted files on a client machine and sending the backup file to a dedicated recovery workstation, remember this:
1) You need to be a local admin while performing the backup, and the restore, in order to back up the data stream even though you don’t have access to the encrypted files.
2) If a policy is disabling EFS on the recovery workstation, ntbackup won’t tell you that it can’t create the encrypted files because EFS is disabled. No. It will simply SKIP the files. So if you have files that get skipped, try to manually create a folder and encrypt it. It has to work else you will not be able to restore the backup properly..
How does Time Machine work with FileVault?
To restore individual files, you can mount the Time machine sparsebundle files and browse them. I believe Apple should document this better, I have yet to find a clear precise document describing how it works.
Here’s a test:
I ran a backup manually. It backed up about 265megabytes. This was right after iTunes downloaded an update for my iPhone. This is weird, because that is stored in Library/iTunes/iPhone Software updates, which is in my FileVault user data.
I ran a second backup right after. It backed up 726Kb. Sounds like not much has changed.
Then, I copied a folder (mp3 album) from my NAS to a folder called Time Machine Test in my home folder.. 91megabytes of files.
I started a backup. Sure enough, it backed up about 91megabytes.
After the backup completed, I mounted the Sparsebundle file, and my files were there. I could copy them back properly.
Manually retrieving files from a Time Machine Sparsebundle with FileVault
So Apple, HOW does it REALLY work? What only gets backed up at logoff? Why can’t the UI show me those files and let me restore them when I can mount the sparsebundle and do it myself?
Having issues similar to:
Trying to enable EFS on a specific OU, while it’s disable at the top of the structure or domain?
Recovery certificates from two different GPOs mixing up instead of being replaced?
Overall EFS GPOs looking like they aren’t merging properly?
Well, it’s not because EFS GPOs are supposed to behave like black magic. Turns out there’s a bug, Microsoft’s aware of it, but doesn’t think it would be a good idea to FIX IT on Windows XP and 2003.
Thankfully, all it means is you need to edit your GPOs from a Vista, 2008 or Windows 7 machine.
Opening my EFS GPOs in Windows 7, switching the Allow/Don’t allow and applying the ‘change’ fixed my GPOs. A few minutes later, and stuff was behaving like it should’ve been… Can I have those wasted hours of my life back, Mr. Ballmer?
Msi Wind Forums • View topic – 100% Working Snow Leopard Retail install
This solution seems to work. Here are the exact steps I followed
1) Image your Snow Leopard CD
2) Restore the image on your USB stick
3) Run NetbookMaker (the instructions mention running Netbookinstaller which is an error)
4) Boot the USB stick
5) Format the drive as 1 partition, make sure in options you select GUID partitions. (This is in Utilities/Disk Utility if you’re not used to this)
6) Install…
7) Boot and install the Realtek drivers ( http://files.binaryfactory.ca/windtools/Realtek_RTL8187SE_MacOS10.5_Driver_073_UI_1.6.2.zip )
Reboot. At this point, video works, Wifi works, sound doesn’t, and I haven’t tested everything else.
9) Enable Filevault. The whole point of Netbooks is to bring them to places where you’ll forget them isn’t it?
9.5) Enable Time Machine (See point 9)
10) Install 10.6.1 as I had forgotten to slipstream it to my USB stick. I didn’t install the combo. I’m such a rebel.
More to come tomorrow or Friday !
I recently got a Lacie D2 network drive. It has been working pretty well, I’m using it for SMB share, AFP share, time machine and to share movies and music to my ps3.
I own a copy of Office that is the download-able version. It is basically a selft-extracting exe that then runs a setup.
I had it stored in a SMB share on the Lacie drive. I ran it. The setup crashed. Then, AFP crashed on my NAS. Rebooting it made things worse. AFP wouldn’t start. Bonjour wouldn’t start. Not long after, SMB wouldn’t start.
Logfiles seemed to indicate that the system’s drive was full. I presume the system is stored on Flash storage in the NAS itself.
I contacted Lacie support. They could only instruct me to reset the unit to factory settings. At least, no data was lost.
I then asked if it could be related in any way to me running a setup file directly from the share, expecting them to tell me there is a known issue when reading a file and writing a lot at the same time or something similar..
Instead, I got this reply:
Tech Support dude.
Makes no sense
Posted: September 3, 2009 @ 7:23 AM
It was related to running the .exe file on the drive. The file is proprietary to an OS such as XP, Vista, or Mac OS X. Running the file on a non-conforming OS is going to create severe havoc and other issues. I am glad the reset resolved the issue.
Regards,
Tech support dude