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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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What's a good data center failure "back up plan"?

With Amazon EC2 down right now, I figured this is a good time to ask the question. We've got all of our services hosted on EC2 at the moment and as a result, nothing is responding at all. Ideally, I'd like to show a basic "we're down" page when data…
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SQL Maintenance Cleanup Task 'Success' But not deleting files

I have a maintenance plan setup for a databases on a server. As part of the backup is a Maintenance Cleanup Task. SQL Version 2008 The task that 'succeeds' is setup as: Delete backup files Correct folder (same address as the backup task) File…
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Scheduled Server Maintenance Holding Page

we are going to perform scheduled maintenance on our server, which runs IIS etc. We may need to restart the server to update Windows etc. I am wondering if it is possible to configure our DNS records for our domains to direct any connections which…
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Sql server backups best practices. Too many files created?

I know this has been asked before, but I'm trying to understand this better. I traditionally used Backup exec to backup sql servers, but I now have two sql servers that are off-site and of course I don't want to back them up across the vpn. I have…
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How to handle a server upgrade

I have several website stored on a server. If I want to upgrade my apache configuration I want to inform all my customers that there will be an upgrade in 30 minutes. I can modify each website to show this message but I was wondering, how can I…
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MSSQL Server 10 runaway log growth, 100GB/week

I have started as an IT Manager and my remit covers MSSQL server. A database that I have inherited uses around 100GB of HD in the space of a week, in the LDF file. This in turn uses all available disk space on drive C: and the server falls over.…
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Error when trying to open SQL Maintenance Plan - SSMS 2008

If I open SSMS on my client machine, connect to our SQL server, and try and open a maintenance plan on there, I get this error: TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Could not load file or assembly 'msddsp, Version=9.0.0.0, …
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Shutting down web server for maintenance

Note: I am new to this situation! How do we manage to to redirect every request during maintenance to a page which says the site is under maintenance mode? I want to automate this process (through cron): Shutdown apache Do maintenance (During this…
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Using mod_rewrite to shutdown website

I am trying to shutdown a website to everyone except my ip address. I almost have it working. I cannot access www.mysite.com, but I can access all folders that have another .htaccess file in them. I have a .htaccess file in /www with the following…
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What database is easy to maintain and manage in a cluster?

I'm looking for a database (DBMS) that is easy to scale out. I would like to have high availability so I need a multi-master cluster, where the data is replicated to two or more physical computers. I would also like to be able to start with one node…
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Graceful maintenance of web applications

I asked this question on Stack Overflow and got some good responses. A couple of SO members mentioned I should ask it here also to see what the SysAdmin perspective on this is. So here goes: I live in Australia (though this is probably true for most…
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What are the periodic maintenance and security activities for a medium-large Active Directory Implementation?

What are the most common periodic activities that are to be performed to make sure that medium to large Active Directory implementation runs smoothly and securely.
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Weekly RAID check affecting my system - any way to mitigate?

I recently got my webhost (Hetzner) to add a paid of 16TB SATA drives to my webserver. Currently using 2.5TB of them. They're RAID 1 mirrored. I also have two 4TB nVME drives with 700GB currently on them, also RAID 1 mirrored. Every week CentOS…
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SSL cert mismatch on redirect to sorry/maintenance website

We are trying to address an (IIS) SSL cert mismatch issue. We own dozens of domains name for various lines of business. We have multiple websites load balanced on a netscaler onsite. For example, www.xyz.com that has 3 servers: p1, p2, and p3. …
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Are .htaccess redirects secure/reliable (website maintenance)?

Our website will be going down for around an hour or so for maintenance. All users need to be redirected to a page indicating that the website is receiving an update and/or under maintenance. Will using the following .htaccess rules reliably prevent…
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