Questions tagged [image]
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Image Colocated Server?
This may be a silly question.
I have a colocated server that is running server 2008 R2. I use it for IIS, MailServer, SQL Server and MYSQL. I also have some custom dlls installed for some of my classic asp work.
Here is my concern... How do I back…
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What software can create OS image backups for platform independent servers
I have a couple servers for which I use the inbuilt backup tools to make OS backups, is there software that can automate the process and make similar format backups. Are there any freeware tools available, paid software will do too.
Edit:I have a…

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What controls the image quality in IIS based on the following example?
I had this question before "Resize image on the fly make the image lose quality online but locally works nice"
And what i got now is that it's not a problem of local or online, i ran this resize on the server itself "dedicated server", and i got the…

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Custom WIM image to be deployed through SCCM 2007 r2
I have captured a WIM file using imagex. It is windows 7 with a few apps that wouldnt install properly.
I now want to deploy this through SCCM but for some reason it keeps failing. When it loads the WinPE it reboots shortly afterward.
The last error…

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Big image: jpg or png?
I'm making a site which has as a banner a 1000x375 image. Which format is recommended for this? (in terms of downloading/displaying times)

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Converting raw image to LVM. Won't mount afterwards
According to this post, it should be okay, to use dd to convert a raw Xen image to LVM.
What I have done
dd if=/vm.img of=/dev/vg00/vm
I can mount vm.img with mount -o loop vm.img /root/tmp. It only have one bootable partition.
But I can't mount…

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Is it possible to create a wim from a set of specific folder and not the whol partition?
I'm trying to find out whether it's possible (or not) to create a wim file from a set of specific folder (C:\windows,C:\somethingelse,etc),
and I was wonder if you guy could help me out ?
Thanks in advance.
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Image serving and storage mechanism
My website publishes entertainment news daily. There are many number of images and videos we publish every day through admin panel. Currently the overall folder occupied 20 GB to store videos and images.
The main problem with this is, it is taking…
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Create a custom WinXP with auto-installed applications
I'm looking for a way to create a custom Windows XP that would contain specific applications.
I get to install lots of WinXP nowadays and instead of fetching all the software all over again I wish make some sort of custom-image of that XP…
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Where to get domu images for quick deployment
I'm looking for a place where I can get prebuilt xen domu images like the readymade AMI's that amazon provides for quick deployment, but freely available to integrate into non EC2 environments.
Do You have any suggestions?

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Need Vista x64 boot disk to access hard drive & external drive
I am evaluating drivesnapshot (www.drivesnapshot.de) for backing up and restoring disk images for Vista PCs. I have drivesnapshot backups working on 2 Vista PCs, but on the x64 PC, I cannot get a boot disk working that allows me to see/access the…

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Need disc image help pronto!
I recently got a job as a junior network administrator. Last week the senior admins did their yearly reinstall of server 2003, exchange, drivers etc on the main server.
I've been asked to back up the disc so that next year they can just copy over…

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Drive Image Backups of Virtual Machine Host (without VM's)
I have a virtual machine host that runs about 4 virtual machines on a separate drive.
If I create an image backup (a la Acronis True Image or Ghost, etc) of the VM host's system drive and then restore that image, will my VM's still work as if…

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How to create running server images Linux?
We have CentOS and Fedora server running on old hardware. We got new Dell servers.
We are looking any open source tool which can take backups and restore all the partition as it is, with out rebooting the server.

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KVM - Reduce Storage Size of QCOW2 File To Specific Size
I want to reduce the storage size of the VM's running on a Linux 8 physical machine from 2 TB to 400 GB. The actual size of VM's is around 100 GB. But the space we give it as allocated size is too big and I want to reduce it.
What I'm talking about…

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