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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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Warn users that the server is under maintenance

From time to time, an OpenERP production server needs some maintenance: upgrading a few modules, probably having a server restart. My issue is, I would like to have a way to stop regular users to access the server. For example, by returning to them…
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Resize Debian in VirtualBox

I have a VM with one HD of size 3GB and I'd like to enlarge its HD to 7GB. So I execute this command on the host (while guest is shutdown): VBoxManage modifyhd debian.vdi --resize 7168 Then I run the guest, Debian 6, and then: smith@debian6:~$ df…
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SQL Server 2012 Maintenance Plan succeeds but does not perform backup

I have a new SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Group on Windows Server 2008 R2 Ent SP1. I'm creating a Maintenance Plan on the Primary Replica which is supposed to do Full (non-copy-only) backups of the only User database. The task is…
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How can I have Apache display a static maintenance page for all but certain users?

I need to be able to put our site into maintenance mode, excepting certain users to allow for QA/Dev to be able to test changes to the site/database during the maintenance mode. The problem is that the list of IPs will be changing every time we do…
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Best practices for Windows Server 2003 live server reboot

We have a Windows Server 2003 box running as a web server in a remote data centre. Last night I installed a large batch of Windows Updates and then triggered a reboot around 1:30am via RDP. The reboot failed and although the server is still running,…
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What maintenance is required for a Postfix setup?

I've taken a look at the setup and configuration process for a Postfix server, planning to use it for just sending emails out from my server. So far, I have these steps: Setup Postfix Configure Postfix Install DKIM Set SPF records Tune for…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 + MSSQL Server R2 crashes once a week, suggestions?

Can someone give me pointers where to look in order to debug why this fresh install of Windows Server 2008 R2 with an untweaked MS SQL-Server R2 which is serving just one ~5GB db to 2 clients crashes once a week? (All updates applied, no other…
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What is the best practice for log rotation and backups

We know logs are important. What is the best practice to maintain them? Logs can get big - so we go for log rotation. And sure we don't want to lose the logs - so we go for their backups. What is the best practice of handling these things? please…
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SQL Server Maintenence Plan error on an offline Database

Today is SQL day for me :) I have a maintenance plan that is failing to run with the following error: Failed:(-1073548784) Executing the query "USE [SharedServices1_DB]" failed with the following error: "Database 'SharedServices1_DB' cannot …
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IIS Maintenance page for multiple sites

Is it possible to have a single maintenance/holding page for all sites on an IIS server? I have one server with 30 sites on it for example. I want to do some maintenance to the server itself which will require my shutting down the coldfusion service…
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Reindex job failing due to being victim of a deadlock, but it is the only process running at 3am..?

I have a reindex job in a maintenance plan which I run on every table in a given database at 3am so it won't interrupt any other work. However it is failing and reporting the reason as being the victim of a deadlock on the tables - how can I work…
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Windows Update Group policy - scheduled install window rather than time?

I've got a small infrastructure of about 20 servers that are all on a domain and receiving updates from a local WSUS server. The group policy at the moment is that automatic updates are configured to auto download and schedule in the install for 3am…
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Why isn't my SQL Server 08 Maintenance plan running at all?

I have this maintenance plan scheduled on my SQL Server 08... however, it never runs! It's been setup for 2 weeks now and I have not seen a single backup created, what am I doing wrong? How do I get this thing to run the backups and other tasks?
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How can I setup scripts to run as period maintenance against my SQL Server?

I need to be able to run maintenance scripts against my SQL server to expire records and generally clean up the database. Is this best accomplished with some sort of trigger or something within the database itself? I'd like to run the script daily…
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How To Backup A Maintenance Plan

I'm using SQL Server Management Studio 2005, and I'm about to make changes to the (rather important) Maintenance Plan. I would like to backup (or export) the Maintenance Plan, so it can be restored (or imported) in case the changes made cause any…
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