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Questions tagged [maintenance]

maintenance is keeping hardware and/or software systems in a healthy state by performing tasks such as updating, cleaning or replacing parts.

maintenance is keeping hardware and/or software systems in a healthy state by performing tasks such as updating, cleaning or replacing parts.

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SQL Server 2005 - Logs not being deleted

I have a SQL Maintance Plan that is set to backup my transaction log. I have it set to expire the transaction log after 2 days. The transaction log get created fine, but the old ones never get deleted. Here is the SQL that maintance plan…
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AWS EC2 replacement instance

I've inherited our AWS management duties for the time being and I've received a notice from AWS about some of our instances needing regular maintenance. The EC2 instances are pretty primary, a proxy server and a WordPress install. From the email it…
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bind9 + lighttpd: Accept all requests coming from certain name servers and reply with static page

So, I've this situation: A server (under CentOS) with a lot of domains with around 2 TB of data under them, and I'm migrating it all to another machine with faster I/O. The migration details / software are not important here. Due to some internal…
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How can I do this to a Maintenance Plan

i've got a pretty simple maintenance plan that does a full backup of my db to a network'd location. works perfectly. I'm wanting to 7zip the backup file AFTER the backup was done. Is there a way i can do this in a maintenance plan? maybe using…
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MSSQL-Server: rebuild vs reorganize Index and Update Statistics

We had a database which was very slow (MS SQL SERVER). Now we figured out, that the indexes were never rebuild oder reorganised. (At the moment it is not clear if this really was the problem but we want to do this frequently now.) But now the…
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What maintenance tasks should I run on my MS-SQL 2008/2012 servers?

The servers are using database mirroring for high-availability running SQL server standard on newer hardware. The existing plans were setup by a DBA many years ago and are using the built in maintenance tools available in the UI. Daily: Full Backup…
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IIS maintenance with client IP exceptions

I'm have no experience with IIS server, but I will have to perform site update. Is there an easy way to put maintenance page, which will be shown to all clients except ones connected from predefined IP addresses? Usually I've performed similar…
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SQL Server file growth extremely slow

I have a database with a size around 100 GB, and I have serious problems expanding the size of the database. This is my setup: SQL Server 2005, Version 9.0.4035 OS: Windows Server 2003 SP2 x86 Running as a guest on Hyper-V Data file and log file on…
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Advice: ideal hosting situation for a mid-sized company with lackluster IT?

I'm used to asking strictly technical questions, so I hope this "Dear Abby" style is appropriate. Potentially-Excessive Background I'm a web designer and developer, good at a lot of things and excellent at very few. I've used various VPS products as…
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Azure SQL Data Sync between SQL Azure and Azure VM

I used two have 2 SQL Azure databases and they were automatically synced using this service: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql-database-get-started-sql-data-sync/ Now one of the databases had been moved to an Azure Virtual…
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What regular server maintenance is recommended for Hyper-v server VM's

We have around 10 server instances (VM's) running on our Hyper-V box (mostly Windows Server 2008 R2) These do various tasks such as File server, Domain Controller, Web server, SQL Server etc. Is there any particular regular maintenance required…
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SQL: name without a login name

I have noticed that when I open SQL server enterprise manager and I navigate to the list of users under a specific DB, I found users with"Name" but some have no "Login Name" value. What does this means? Does it means that the 1)users cannot log…
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How to prevent nginx throttling conflicting with maintenance mode?

We use the HttpLimitReqModule nginx mondule for rate throttling and have found that it conflicts with our "maintenance mode" because both components are using http status code 503. When throttling is activated (via the limit_req directive), nginx…
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Ubuntu server: Delete first folder in directory

How can I grab the first subfolder in a directory and delete it? I found a script to monitor the free diskspace. It sends an alert email if space runs low, but I want to also delete some unneeded stuff. I have a backup folder where I save daily and…
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Debian and apt upgrade

I have GNU/Linux Debian Servers (Etch/Lenny) in production. I want theses systems to stay up to date. I have installed apticron with tells me what packet needs an upgrade. What is the good practice for production servers and stable releases of…
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