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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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Squid reverse proxy: maintenance mode

Currently I am trying to configure my squid (3.1) reverse proxy to always display a static webpage when the one and only backend webserver is under maintenance. There is no need for an automatic switchover. The maintenance mode shall be activated by…
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Website/Server down for maintenance - Redirect to 'Landing Page'?

I have been given the task to make it so when customers try to access their websites while maintenance is taking place (Whether on their website, or taking the whole server offline) they are redirected to a 'landing page' as such. Is this possible?…
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How can I deploy a 503 maintenance page when upgrading a Digital Ocean droplet?

Usually when I perform maintenance that requires briefly taking my site down, I put up a 503 page using something similar to How can I make Nginx return HTTP 503 when my proxied app server is down?. However, I'm about to upgrade my Digital Ocean…
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Manage oVirt environment

I'm starting to deploy oVirt in one of my works, and I have a lot of questions about how to manage everything when you start using it. First I'll describe my setup. I have three machines, two ProLiant DL360e Gen8 servers and one common PC. All of…
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Does it make sense to store IIS logs on a NAS?

This is the scenario: We host several websites on multiple webservers, and I'm thinking about a way to consolidate the log-handling for all webservers. Would it make sense to store all logs on a common NAS-device, with a dedicated machine that does…
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MS-SQL Server Implicit_transaction on table

I'm trying to experiment with implicit_transaction on sql server. However, after executing: SET IMPLICIT_TRANSACTIONS ON; INSERT INTO [Interface].[dbo].[Log] ([String], [Time], [theUser]) VALUES ((SELECT [String] FROM [Interface].[dbo].[Log] WHERE…
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Updating software on Remote Desktop Services

We have Remote Desktop Services setup under Windows 2012 R2 in session mode, meaning we are not virtualizing machines. The software we are rolling out is our own, so we can make sure it plays nice in a multi-tenant environment and we want to save…
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How to forward to Amazon S3 when in maintenance mode with nginx using 503?

During website maintenance, it is sometimes necessary to shutdown our website. Our current method is to touch a file which will trigger the web server (nginx) to redirect traffic to a maintenance page hosted in Amazon S3. It is important to host the…
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SQL Server 2012 Management Studio Connect after some time (File not found error)

I've a root server with Window Server 2008 R2 where MS SQL Server 2012 is installed. Get a error while connecting. Management Studio Error Message File not found This error only occur directly after start. Then i wait 2 Minutes. Everything is…
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How to maintain servers without disconnecting clients?

I am designing/developing new messenger service (just like Yahoo, Gtalk messengers). So, my clients will be continuously connected to the servers. I like to know how such servers can be maintained (applying fixes, upgrades etc) while clients are…
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MBSA fails MSSQL folder permissions because MSSQL$SQLEXPRESS has access

I am not sure what exactly it's expecting. If you remove this user the check passes, but the server fails. How can it be resolved so the check passes, yet it has the limited permissions MBSA is looking for?
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Can't select database for transaction log backup in maintenance plan

I am running into a problem while trying to save a transaction log database backup maintenance task: Add the 'Back Up Database Task' to the maintenance plan. Edit the task. Select backup type: 'Transaction Log'. Select any database running with…
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windows 7 - sql server 2012 - Maintenanace Cleanup Task

My Team Foundation Server creates backups. I want to clear backups that are older than 5 days. Create Maintenanace Cleanup Task in Maintenance Plans of Management of Sql Server 2012. Point there folder, file extension bak, checkbox 'Delete files…
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Setting Up nginx Site Down That Responds Differently to Ajax?

I am trying to set up an automatic site-down page for nginx. So far I have this: location / { try_files /sitedown.html @myapp; } location @myapp { ... } That works well enough: if sitedown.html is present,…
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SQL Server database refuses to back up to USB disk

I have few databases on a SQL Server 2005/WS 2003 platform, and I have a curious situation that has arisen. I have been manually backing up the databases to a USB hard disk until about a week ago (this is not a question on the rights or wrongs of…
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