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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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"Site Down for Maintenance" what kind of maintenance work do they do?

I'm a moderate web developer. I haven't managed any high traffic websites. Generally, I observe that only high traffic websites are down for maintenance. stackoverflow.com will also go down for maintenance. I always wonder. What kind of maintenance…
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How to export a MSSQL table in MSSQL studio express 2005?

is there any way to export a table to a file without any additional tools? I can't install anything on that server.
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How do i archive newly added DB backups?

I'm using Windows Server 2003, Sql-Server 2005 and 7-zip for archiving. Each day maintenance plan adds all DBs to backup and i need to archive those but just those files. How do i create .bat or .vbs script which deletes previous archive adds only…
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Advice on keeping cloud server secure? (linux)

I'm able to take a basic linux distro (stable Ubuntu Server) and install everything I need to get my web apps up and running. (Django, Rails, PHP etc...) But after all of that I would appreciate some advice on security. Here is my current…
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Maintenance Plan Reporting - Append To File - Clean Up?

Background: (SQL Server 2005, Standard Ed.) I have a maintenance plan running backups, taking a full backup 1/day, and t-log every 15 minutes. I have it set to create a text file report of each run, but that creates A LOT of files on the file…
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Red Hat Enterprise 7.4 End-of-Life status

I would like to get a definitive and authorized answer on the end-of-life of RHEL 7.4. I tried to find information…
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Realtime MS SQL Database transfer

I have MS SQL 2005 Standard that is used actively (new data is added every minute). I need to transfer it to another server (new hosting provider), without losing the data and without downtime. Is there any way to do it?
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DNS redirecting to mantainance page during planned mantainance - what happens to google indexing?

We are planning a mantainance that could take down the services for a whole day. I would like therefore to show a mantainance page, explaining the issue and providing additional info/links. During this time, the machines will be completelly down, so…
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Overriding individual websites hosted in NGINX to show a Maintenance Page

We have an architecture whereby we are hosting multiple sites in NGINX. Each NGINX site has its own config.Each of these sites points to a common codebase but points to a different domain name and its associated SSL. What we want to do is during…
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How do I temporarily pause, stop, block, or deny users from logging into my Windows Server 2016 application server during maintenance?

I have an application server into which multiple users log in daily, but I want to keep them off while I am working on some maintenance tasks. How can I do that?
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Looking for some useful resources to find out site and server downtime reasons

I have recently started monitoring some server instances at digitalocean, OVH and an independent provider at biznesshosting. The application servers' stacks are based on: CentOS NGINX with Passenger Rails/Ruby Three background job servers with…
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How to calculate draw power from specs for a UPS

We recently installed some new blade servers and we have 'overloaded' our current UPS (APC Smart UPS 3000). We bought an identical UPS to balance out the load, however, we did not have another 30 Amp socket in our server room to support it. I have…
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What are these tmp directories for? And IF can they be eliminated, HOW?

I should have included the fact that none of these files are visible from Windows Explorer, and only show when looking for *.tmp at the command line. AND they don't seem to be possible to delete. I thought perhaps someone has encountered this…
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Filesystem check on ext3, debian

How can I perform a filesystem check on ext3 partition on linux? I am looking for a solution that check every file on the filesystem that is it accessible. UPDATE: I would run it on a server without unmounting the drive.
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Server Monitoring Options

I'm trying to find the best way to monitor my MS SQL server. I have been using pingdom for my web server and want to look at something else. I have done a lot of googleing but they all seem to be the same. Was hoping someone could tell me their good…
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