Oct
28
2010
In order to expand a Windows volume with Diskpart: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrateur>diskpart Microsoft DiskPart version 5.2.3790.3959 Copyright (C) 1999-2001 Microsoft Corporation. On computer: RADON DISKPART> select volume Y Volume 5 is the selected volume. DISKPART> extend DiskPart successfully extended the volume. DISKPART> exit Leaving DiskPart…
Tags: disk, diskpart, extend, partition, volume, Windows
Aug
20
2009
Most of us already know cluster features aren’t provided on Windows 2003 server Standard Edition. The thing is you’ve got a shared storage space but you can’t (or don’t want to) afford 2 Windows Enterprise licences just for a file server. There is DFS indeed but one acknowledge it is a pity to replicate data [...]
Tags: 2003 server, cluster, disk, DOS, drive, failover, file server, nbtstat, netbios, netbt, redondant, script, share, standard edition, volume, Windows
Jul
26
2008
It is generally good practice to respect the two following points when backing up databases. The backup has to be: consistent fast Consistency is easily achieved putting a read lock on all tables beforehands. However, this isn’t always applied, and WILL definately lead to a database integrity problem at some stage. Once a lock has [...]
Tags: backup, fast, linux, lock, logical, LVM, manager, Mysql, snapshot, volume