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Windows Server Backup "Reading Data; please wait..."

On windows Server 2008 R2 I have recently added the windows server backup (WSB) feature. Opening WSB I get the message "Reading Data; please wait...". This message fails to go away, even after leaving the server for over 12 hours. I also notice in…
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New standalone ESXi 5 deployments - USB versus SD card?

Now that the old full VMWare ESX with service console is no longer, I'm redeploying some standalone ESXi servers. I'm using HP ProLiant ML and DL G6 and G7 servers. Does it make more sense to utilize the internal USB port for ESXi or the internal SD…
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Linux (CentOS): Confirm that a disk device is a USB pen drive without logs

We have a USB pen drive connected to our server. It was connected months ago so we the log of the initial connection have since been rotated out. I know you could obtain the make and model of a device (e.g., /dev/sdc) from the /var/log/messages log…
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Disk encryption without cooperation from system

I have a small embedded system that supports fat32. It does not have any encryption options for the files that it saves to a external usb connected disk. Modifying the source to support encryption is not an option. Are there any external drives, or…
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How to make USB thumbdrive space visible as a datastore to ESXi 4.1 U1?

I'm trying to create an All-in-one box which consists of ESXi running from an USB stick. Inside of ESXi there will be a vm which has been given direct access to a RAID controller for sharing it's disks via ISCSI back to this underlying ESXi server…
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Recover a USB flash driver reporting 0 bytes

I'm not sure it's the right section to be asking this question, sorry if it's not. Last night I used openSUSE ImageWriter to create a USB bootable flash driver, however the drive is completely unusable at the moment, it reports 0b. I tried cfdisk,…
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Recovering Bad USB Flash Drive

Is there a way to recover contents of a bad USB Flash Drive? I know something has gone wrong when you get asked to format the stick when you plug it in.
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Disable USB Storage in General But Include Exceptions for Specific Devices

There are several questions here about disabling USB storage in general via GPO but I can find no information on whether it is possible to add exceptions for specific devices. Put another way, can USB drive types that include builtin encryption be…
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FreeNAS, add os mirror after installation

I have selected two usb sticks to install FreeNAS onto during instllation. Everything is setup now and working. Can I add a third usb stick as mirror now without reinstalling everything? If so, how? Also, does the mirrored boot filesystem also…
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USB Flash Drive unbootable on IBM/Lenovo x3850 X5

Specs/Firmware: Server: IBM/Lenovo x3850 X5 (model: 7143B2G) IMM: YUOOH5A-1.55 (01/15/2018) UEFI: G0E188BUS-1.88 (05/29/2018) DSA: DSYTC5F-9.53 (02/17/2014) FPGA: …
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Drawbacks of installing linux on usb stick?

I am setting up a router/nas/http/whatever server based on an ION mini-ITX board. I've installed Ubuntu Server on an old 160 GB drive, but it generates a lot more heat and vibrates more than my other new drive (storage). It just doesn't fit the…
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Deny Access to USB Drives for non-admins but allow admins

We need to set your systems to allow administrative users to access a USB drive (if plugged into the USB port) but deny non-admin users. I've found a plethora of online articles describing how to lock or deny users from using the USB port for drives…
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Making a near empty flash drive easy to compress

I have a flash drive, which is ten-percent full, but has been used extensively. (i.e. a large minority of blocks will contain random noise.) In order to make a small, compressed image of this drive (if it were an HDD) I would dd if=/dev/zero…
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need to reset dirty bit on usb flash memory stick

We have a usb memory stick that FreeBSD-11 will not mount because its file system is not clean. It is not clean because it was removed from an extension cable while it was mounted on a FreeBSD-11 system. However, there was no file activity that we…
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gnome -- create symlinks when mounting a file system

I'm not 100% sure where the problem is... udev or gnome or ... Backstory: I have an "IronKey". I have a udev rule that allows my IronKey to plug into my machine. After I've plugged it in, I go to the gnome desktop, select "Places" / "IronKey" ,…
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