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Initialize Disk - Will It Wipe my data?

I have four disks from a Buffalo Terrastation NAS which were setup in a RAID5 configuration. The terrastation apparently runs a linux based software RAID. Unfortunately one disk has failed entirely, and I have a second disk which is working…
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Partial clone of virtual machine in VMware

I have to clone a virtual machine hosted by a VMware ESXi server. In particular, the virtual machine has three disks: is there a way to clone the machine not entirely? In other words, I don't care about two disks of three, I want the same machine,…
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Copying parition tables (only) on two GPT HDDs of 4TB each

I have two hdds of 4TB each on CentOS 7. I need to copy partitions of one to the other so that I can use the second to take periodic backups from the first. Tried sgdisk using -R option but it did not help, while parted was able to read correctly…
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Terminal servers, VM clone keep getting kernel-power 2008r2 crashing both servers

I'm desperate at the moment to get an answer to the following problem. Als servers are managed in our VMWare-vcenter environment. We've got 2 terminal servers, term01 and term01 and we also got a loadbalancer. Some weeks ago we had a Cryptoware on…
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Cloning Windows 2012 R2 domain controllers with KVM

Virtual domain controller cloning is a new feature from Windows Server 2012 that I use because it's a very useful and simple way to add additional domain controllers to an Active Directory domain. This feature requires that the hypervisor supports…
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Which directories to exclude before full Ubuntu synchronization?

I have two Ubuntu server which I want to synchronize so that I can run the second server when the first server is down. I want to do the synchronization using rsync. But I read, not all the directories (for example /boot and hardware specific files)…
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Pacemaker - how to monitor and stop service on wrong node (without dependent services)

I have four nodes A-D with service1 clone (clone-max 3) and with 3 virtual IPs. I have constraints - clone-ip1, clone-ip2, clone-ip3 - this works well when only pacemaker handles services. I'd like Pacemaker to "audit" the nodes automaticly so when…
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Windows 7 Cloned hard drive boot repair

I was handed a hard drive today and told to make a clone. The clone is supposed to be inserted in a workstation and booted up. I've never seen the hardware from the original, but I'm certain it doesn't match that of the workstation. The cloning went…
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clone running windows with tool running within it

I've been told there's a tool which can be ran from a currently-running Windows to create an image of it, which later can be used, or converted to a format which can be used by vmware. Since I have some special conditions I wouldn't discuss, I need…
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SSL certificate on cloned server, common name not same as server name

I've cloned a rackspace cloud server and put it into a load balancer, whilst removing the original server. The site seems to respond fine but then I have a problem with the SSL certificate, as I'm getting an error message on https pages. The error…
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How to P2V a RAIDed IBM Netfinity 7100 W2000 server

I have a legacy machine from IBM (A Netfinity 7100) running a Windows 2000 SP4 server OS. We are trying to move it to a virtual environment (KVM under Linux) to decommission this old, costly hardware. We have tried everything we know so far with no…
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LXC container clone has no network and SSH stopped

I was having this networking problem with LXC containers (question and answer here:bridging LXC containers to host network with different IP range) and if I have found a solution, I still have not found the reason of the problem: I started with a…
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Best way to do a full backup of CentOS 6.5 running on VMWare

I have inherited a mission critical pound server running CentOS 6.5 running on VMware. Server needs updates and patching for Shellshock but we do not want to do anything to it without having a complete backup and restore plan in the event of things…
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Migrate Non RAID 2008 Single Drive Server to SSD

I have a customer running a custom app that would benefit from improved SSD speed. Their existing server is running Windows 2008 with a single SATA drive (no RAID). The server has an open drive bay and I have a 2.5" SSD that I'm about to install in…
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vmware vsphere clone vm

this is my first time cloning a vm ubuntu 12.04 production server on a mvware esx enviroment. Thus I´m a bit scared of lose sight of something. The Server is nothing more than a webserver apache + postgresql Database, and uses openssh, Nagios for…
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