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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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Is there a simple way in Azure to redirect all HTTP(S) requests to a "server down" status page?

I have a web server (Windows/IIS) hosting various web applications running as a VM on Azure. Now, I'll need to do some maintenance on the web server, which will involve shutting down and reconfiguring the VM. During this downtime (which should be…
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Server maintenance landing page - can it be on HTTP?

We are running two accounting systems on ruby on rails and sometimes we have to do maintenance tasks which cause downtimes, or just that they are simpler to do with downtimes. i.a. This week we where migrating our whole suite of lxc containers to a…
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One custom maintenance page for all errors (Nginx)

I want to show one custom maintenance page for all errors. What code should I put to my nginx setting below? and the file of my nginx setting is located at /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf. server { listen 80; listen [::]:80; server_name…
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nginx putting site into maintenance either blocks the maintenance file or still allows all files

I'm running a simple nginx server with php-fpm to serve my pages for me. I've been trying to put it into maintenance mode by redirecting all requests to 503 and then using a custom error page to display the 503. My problem is, whatever is wrong with…
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Does me hitting the serverfault site during routine maintenance cause the server/sysadmin team issue?

Not sure if this belongs here, but had the thought while trying the hit Stack Overflow during routine maintenance. Does me hitting stackoverflow.com when its down cause issues on the servers? If so, how are they handled by the servers? Would…
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Restore SQL dump in a running Kubernetes deployment

TL;DR: I imagine that there is a way to temporarily disable access to a pod / service so maintenance can be done. In this case: Block access to a database so a dump can be restored. $ kubectl exec podwith-postgresql-59b77ffb7d-fc4xj dropdb…
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MSSQL:Ultimate configuration for rebuilding indexes+statistics

My database is growing slower even though I have a bunch of indexes setup. Yesterday I figured out that I need to setup a maintenance plan to build the indexes etc. So my question is what's the ultimate configuration for this? Do I need All:…
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Maintenance Cleanup Task(s) running 'successfully' but not deleting back up files

I have a maintenance plan setup for all my user databases on a particular server, which does all the usually things at various intervals. The 7th and final subplan is a two stage cleanup plan; firstly old full backups are deleted, then old…
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Script to delete many old user profiles from file server?

I have a network share on a Windows Server 2012 machine that is used to store all the user profile files (My Documents, Desktop, etc). There are hundreds of old users I need to get rid of and I am going through them all one by one... first making…
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VPS - Maintenance Efforts

I'm contemplating about moving my current website to a VPS - Plan instead of a shared hosting which I'm on now to make the deployment process of updates a lot easier (the shared hosting environment i'm on now doesn't allow SSH access). However, I…
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Run AWS RDS maintenance manually

I received an email from AWS about one of my multi-AZ RDS instance. They basically said that there was going to be an upgrade during a certain period: We are contacting you to inform you that one or more of your Amazon RDS DB instances is scheduled…
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Disable maintenance mode from within recovery (Debian)

My rootserver's power supply died the day before and the hoster had to replace it. Since then, the server does not boot correctly anymore. Because of the sudden powerloss, it starts right in some kind of maintenance mode. The hoster is not able to…
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SQL 2005 SP4 Maintenance Plan Not Saving

I am using SQL 2005 SP4 specifically version 9.00.5000.00 it is the Standard Version and I am accessing it using SQL Server 2014 Management Studio. I am trying to create a rebuild index tasks from the maintenance plan wizard and it fails on the…
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Why isn't the Microsoft Update Catalog working?

The Microsoft Update Catalog web site seems to be very unreliable. If it isn't working, what troubleshooting steps are sometimes helpful? (Please note that the Microsoft Update Catalog is not the same thing as Microsoft Update, although they offer…
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Ensim maintenance mode

Following someone's procedure I ran my RedHat Ensim server through maintenance mode. /usr/local/sbin/set_maintenance /usr/local/sbin/set_pre_maintenance /usr/local/sbin/set_post_maintenance /etc/init.d/epld restart Something went wrong and…
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