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It seems there are two positions SysAdmins find themselves in, either you are working for a non-IT services based single client (your employer) and providing in-house IT support or you work for a company who provides out sourced IT services to multiple clients.
Right now…
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Hi all,
I'd like to know if there is a way for a user account to be enabled or elevated to carry out system admin tasks WITHOUT having to use the root account or sudo.
Goal here is to allow a user account to Add/Delete users/printers without giving them the 'God' powers that the root account carries…
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Bit of a non-technical question but I have seen questions of the career development type on here before so hopefully it is fine.
I work for a fast growing but still small organization (~65 employees). I have been their external sysadmin for a while now, looking after hosted Linux servers and infrastructure…
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Recently, I was involved in a customer scenario where they were modifying the Content Server's contributor data files directly through Content Server. This operation of course is completely supported. However, since the contributor data file was modified through the "backdoor", a running…
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I've recently taken over management of a Windows 2003 Small Business server and network for a small, less than ten person company.
I have some (antiquated) sysadmin experience, but I've little experience with Exchange.
The documentation of the existing infrastructure leaves much to be desired, and…
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I have a GA MA785GT UD3H motherboard with Windows Server 2008 R2 installed on a RAID1 using the on-board RAID controller.
I have now installed a RocketRaid 2680 controller and set up a RAID5 for all my data to be stored on.
Unfortunately I now cannot boot from the RAID1 anymore, the PC is trying…
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My motherboard, an Asus M4a79t Deluxe, advertises RAID 0/1/5 capabilities. My limited understanding is that onboard RAID is better than software RAID. Is this necessarily true? Is an onboard RAID controller closer in performance to a software controller or a dedicated hardware controller?
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Is using mdadm's RAID-1 of 2 partitions (one on laptop's internal HDD, one on external HDD) a good idea.
I want the system to work as RAID-1 if both drives are present, work as regular volume (degradad RAID-1) if external HDD is unplugged and quickly resync when I plug external HDD again.
Questions:
Is…
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When using the SQLIO benchmark tool on a 4-core Dell server with 6 15k 450GB (fast) drives, RAID 0, we found the max throughput was 2MB per second. But when configured as RAID 5, we get 30 MB per second.
It seems that the RAID controller, Dell Perc 5i integrated controller, is maxing out the…
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I have Dell Poweredge server 2600 with Raid 5 in 3 hard drive Scsi 36gb each, it was fail to boot sinc the third drive is offline.
I attached Sata card adapter to Sata hard drive and install OS SERVER 2003 to it, downloaded drivers for Raid and everything goes fine when I use recovery data software…
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