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Btrfs Raid10 Two drives have failed. What are my options?

Here's my story: I noticed read errors on one of my four RAID10 Btrfs drives (/dev/sde). This occurred when I was attempting a backup using btrfs send/receive. I bought a new hard drive of the same size and attempted to replace the failed one. I…
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/proc/diskstats: No such file or directory

Trying to get some disk performance metrics (in particular, using munin), found that /proc/diskstats does not exist. Tried yum provides '*/diskstats' but nothing except munin was found. CentOS release 6.7 (Final) uname -a Linux domain.com…
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Smart Array P400 Drive Failure

I have a HP Proliant server with a Smart Array P400 RAID controller with 2 146 gb 10k SAS hard drives configured in a mirrored RAID configuration. Where could I find information regarding how a drive failure would affect this configuration? I am…
Cory Cavanagh
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Limit Hard Drive Write Speed by User in Linux

Background: I use a cluster with my coworkers and if anyone writes too many big files at the same time I can't even move the cursor in vim (the horror!). I'm not sure if it is more related to the number of files open or the "bandwith" of hard drive…
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Best practices for backing up company data?

Hopefully asked in the right website, as a company of 25 employees, we are using Google Drive for most of our data with automatic syncing. In case of a malware, these files would be deleted / encrypted due to the automatic syncing. What would be the…
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Two drive ZFS pool, second drive overwritten with data. How do I restore/copy data back to the second drive?

Data is intact in the first drive, second drive is "UNAVAIL". Reason for overwrite is my lack of concentration while applying dd command ... Command sudo zpool replace -f hgst 4596995095197485503 /dev/sdd Gives invalid vdev specification the…
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Bitlocker Drive cannot save files on this drive

I have a freshly installed Windows 2008 R2 Server with a C drive containing the operating system and d drive as a normal data drive. Ive turned on encryption on the d drive using Bitlocker. The encryption processed all the files and completed…
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Create VHD file from a folder?

My scenario : I have 100 Gb of data that contain a lot of folders and files , so is there a way to create a VHD file from this folders and files ? Any help is thankful .
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How can I find which logon script is being run?

I'm having an issue with network drives. Suddenly some computers and users aren't getting their mapped network drives from the logon script. I am NOT a domain admin, I don't have permission to login to the domain controller. And I know very little…
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End and start cylinder the same?

Today we had our DC replace a failing harddrive in our RAID array, this is the first time I have ever had to do this. However I am now trying to resync the array and I am having difficulties understanding how this systems even working right now. Our…
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Windows Unattended: Running a program from the OS boot drive and not "C:" drive

See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff715408.aspx for FirstLogonCommand, how do I specify a CommandLine for the OS boot drive and not just use "C:" like the examples do. The OS boot drive might not be "C:". Update: I am using C++ to write…
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Can not see drive in Remote Desktop Connection

I did an upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7. Since I did that I can not see my drive. Of course I set the local ressources settings and the remote settings. The operating system on my server is Windows 2008 R2. I did the remote session with the…
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Mirroring primary hard drive

I need to mirrior my life drive so that the hard drive we mirror it to is bootable. Does the server need to be off to do this? What's the best way to do this? It's a 160GB drive with anywhere from 60-100 GB actually used. Sorry, we're on Linux…
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Recommended Win2k8 Server software to fix my RAID-0 issue

I'm running an Asus P6T V2 Deluxe. It has six SATA ports and supports onboard RAID. I am using two of those ports for a RAID0 array of 1.5TB Seagate drives using the onboard RAID controller. One of them is giving me SMART warnings and I want to…
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Sharing a drive between Windows and Linux

The situation: I have these virtual machines that are used for building software, and I'm trying to keep all the builds on the same "disk", if you will. The virtual machines: 2 x Windows 4 x Linux (3 Mandriva and 1 CentOS) What is the best way to…
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