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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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While gentoo is doing emerge update world, can I safely work in another terminal window (ALT-F3 for example)?

Got a new Gentoo installation, and doing a long emerge update world. I noticed that the other terminal windows are still available (ALT-F2, ALT-F3, etc.). Is it safe for me to work in them while the emerge world process continues? Any limitations…
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Buying an old laser printer -- what will need to be replaced?

as you can see I'm new. I do IT and wiring for a small local shop but I never deal with printers. I do a LOT of printing, and I'd like to stop spending as much money on it. On my local CL, there is an HP 8100DN (duplex network) printer for a very…
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SQL Server 2005 Default Backup Plan

I noticed that a newly imported database on SQLServer 2005 had configured itself (without my knowledge) to perform daily backups; but it's not deleting old files and quickly filling up the disk. I don't know how the backup job got configured (maybe…
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How should I perform database maintenance on a 24x7 system

I'm a software developer who inherited a part-time DBA role. I'm responsible for an application backend by a small, high-volume 24x7 database on SQL Server 2008. While there's other stuff in the DB, the critical piece is a 50GB, 7.5M row table that…
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Exchange 2007 Online Maintenance Overlap

Every night at 02:59 the following events are logged by my Exchange server: Event Type: Warning Event Source: MSExchangeIS Mailbox Store Event Category: Background Cleanup Event ID: 9871 Date: 5/20/2009 Time: …
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SQL Maintenance Plan - Send email on fail

I have a maintenance plan on my SQL 2008 box - I would like it to send an email address when (or if) it fails. I've set up database mail, and can send a test email.. How can I do this?
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Keeping SQL Express below 4gb?

What would the recommended best practices to keep a SQL Express 2005 database below the 4gb limit? I am willing to export and archive content out of the data tables, but am not sure this will help once they have expanded. From what I read, it…
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How to kick users from Windows Server 2012 R2

I need to migrate some databases from one server to another to decommission the first one. This server is sharing a network share and a database. Prior to migration and to ensure data integrity, I need to avoid users connections to DB as well as…
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Are there any quality resources for training users how to keep their Windows system finely tuned?

We do a pretty good job of keeping our corporate Windows devices clean from malware. Most of our Intranet applications are browser-based and our users do a fine job of following our rules of the road on the corporate network regarding what they can…
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SQL Server 2005 backup from non-domain computer?

We need to make a backup of a MS SQL Server 2005 database. The computer on which the database resides is in it's own workgroup and is not on our domain. It also doesn't appear the vendor will support us adding the PC to the domain. So we need to…
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zpool upgrade planning (time, I/O usage, etc.)

I recently upgraded our SXCE svn_72 box to OpenSolaris 2009.06 (snv_111b). It wants to me to upgrade my zpool to the latest version now. We need to plan upfront for things like zpool scrub because of the amount of time it takes and the IO intensive…
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Schedule Recreate Snapshot and Reinitialize Subscriptions - SQL 2005

Monthly I have to generate a new snapshot for replication and reinitialize subscriptions in SQL 2005. I would really like to automate and schedule this, but I'm not having much luck discovering how. Not being a DBA I'm pretty much poking around…
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SQL Server 2005 Maintenance Plan Failure

First off - I'm a developer, not a DBA or server admin, so I'm feeling kinda outta my elemenet here. Anyways, I'm trying to create a Maintenance Plan on a Sql Server 2005 machine (it's the first one on this box). After failing miserably to get the…
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fsck and disk integrity checks for Linux systems that are rarely rebooted

Like most Linux systems, my systems rarely need to be rebooted ( if ever). How do you handle disk integrity checks and filesystem maintenance if you don't reboot? Do you schedule periodic reboots for fsck to run? EXT4 CentOS 6.3
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Ubuntu maintenance general advice

I'm a developer by trade but I've been asked to maintain our Ubuntu servers and am in need of some general advice as I don't really have any experience in this area... Does apt-get upgrade only update Ubuntu with minor incremental patches (e.g. if…
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