I am doing miracles with image-migrating, shadow protect, ibm x226, asus P5G41T-M LX

USING SHADOW PROTECT IT ED.

first boot from SP it cd, start w2003 image restore, I got error "error start operating system"

tried a few things I noticed it failed to restore hidden track.

so I tried using w7 restore option, un-tick restore hidden track, boooom , the system boots into w2003

oh baby , my bacon saved for the day

the first trouble I noticed is an external usb drive wont show a drive letter,
press ctrl+shift+f12 I can see more cmd options, start diskpart, select volume 2 (in this case), assign a drive letter, it will assign the next drive letter to the external usb drive which contains the backup image. however the trouble continues along the w2003 restore path.

even if the image itself is w2003 on ibm x226.

agony with Shadow protect

tried to restore a 80GB hard drive image (10G used space)  to a 40gb hard drive,

no luck, ghost can do drive shrinking ages ago.

munter

however another thing is with limited success...

pull the hard drive from a dead pc,

put in the target pc, boot from shadow protect cd, image it to a usb drive,

then restore it using hir (hardware independent restore ...)

missing messages in PST file

I had used shadow protect imaged this sony notebook before, funny this time when I copied the pst file back, there is a gap in between. bizzare thing is the pst file time-stamp is ok.

then started process of elimination, by deleting all old messges, there isn't much left in the pst file, so there aren't many messages in the pst.
 he must have used something esle for email.

shadow protect cannot send test email...

shadowprotect test email com+ required not installed

http://www.storagecraft.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=197

in windows 2008 x64 I changed COM+ start as delayed start. still no luck.

oh no, I typed the smtp server name wrong...

Xen 5.5 and IBM x3250 M3

installed xen 5.5 on x3250 M3, initially it hesitated to detect the raid controller. eventually it installed.

the drama unfolded when I tried to restore the image to the Xen box.

shadow Protect IT Q1 2010 just can't start the VM.

so I tried a SP 3.5.1 CD, it wont start in 2003 lagcy mode, but it started in vista mode.

then there is a problem with networking. the static IP won't work, so I have to turn on the DHCP server.

anyway there is a Xen Server 5.5 update 2. maybe I need use that for a start

impressive USB transfer speed on a x226 server

Lacie external USB drive attached to IBM x226 server, in shadow protect sessions,

speed observed
54.35MB/s from the server itself.
31.44MB/s from another server an IBM x306 across a network (Gigbit switch)

image a computer hard drives over to another computer

I know some computer will never wake up after the long holiday.

one of a client's important workstation failed to start, the hard drive light seemed always on. from past experience I knew one of the hard drive wasn't starting.

then take an image of another PC (Win-XP) with similar functionality.. well my ShadowProtect IT edition expired Q4 2009. luckily I have a Shadow Protect 3.3 CD. That saved the day. interestingly the local ShadowProect distributor wanted to send a copy of Oct 2009 IT edition. I wonder that will make any difference.

I started the process of elimination, 2 of the 3 internal hard drives not starting properly. ironically this faulty system started perfectly today. but after I run scandisk, the whole thing crashed again.

put in a new hard drive, I have restore the image to to this drive and remaining one. the first shadow protect boot crashed, I have to un-plug the old remianing hard drive from the on-board gigbyte raid controller. then restore the boot-image to the new hard drive.

behold my breath, now the image is successfully copied over. the Win-XP is starting, pop in the motherboard cd to load all the drivers. P4-3.2GHZ, very old PC.

USB 3.0 demoed at CES 2010

I happen to spot a Youtube footage about USB 3 speed. It is very impresive, very fast.
its 10 times faster than USB 2.0, low CPU usage.
their test show about 216MB/s copying 1GB file. its about alright as I noticed in my daily work USB2 is about 1GB per minute. that is USB 2 is about 20~67 MB/s over shadowProtect sessions.

failed attempt to upgrade a Windows 2000 PC

failed attempt to upgrade a Windows 2000 PC ... I hate the word failure to the bone. but i have to face the reality.

upgrading a generic windows 2000 OEM PC (celeron 3.0G with 1GB ram, GA-sis chipset based MB) ... argh ..
Windows XP OEM cd can't do upgrade.
Windows XP VL cd can start the upgrade process, unfortunately, the PC failed to restart in the upgrading process.

tried to use XP w/sp3 cd in the recovery console to revive the installation, the message was there was an upgrade in process.

after all this trying, choice is to install from scratch using XP-OEM. things are easy to install from scratch.

the bigest disappoint is with storagecraft's shadow protect. the IT edition can't image windows 2000 installation from the W2000 gui interface. in a rush trying to finish the work before christmas, booted the PC from IT ed CD, take the image. But can't put the image back, it wont boot.

use pptp join the PC back to the domain, using the same PC name, but have to reset the computer account first in the AD.

Toshiba Portege R600 and an EU company glabal warning

Toshiba Portege R600 and an EU company glabal warning, what happened if a notebook get lost. someone has to scamble for days to get back on feet again.

well, an european company told their global distrubutors to get two identical notebooks. the idea is to back up the data, and copy the data back to the notebook that still available.

to do that a new toshoba portege r600 is ordered for the local boss. that's not the exact version of the old version. the cpu is different, and the new one got 3G wireless. this is not a cheap model. But I doubt it has a solid state hard drive.

so took an image of old R600 hard drive. the shadow protect speed runs at 26MB/s which is not bad.

luckily this user only stores his data under his profile. so Use synback to copy his profile to a network drive.

The new R600 is running W7, the original is running W-XP (got vista license downgraded).

Boot from Shadow Protect IT ed Q4'09, select legacy w2003 restore mode, surprsingly it won't see the w7 loaded disk.
boot again select vista based restore mode. things are fine.

Symantec EndPoint 11.0.5 and StorageCraft shadow protect imcrementals

Symantec EndPoint 11.0.5 and StorageCraft shadow protect imcrementals. symantec anti-virus server will cause an incremental in shadown protect at about 500MB.

so un-install SAV server and install SEP into another server. SEP 11.0.5 is supposed to handle Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7.
the symantec uninstall password is symantec.

using shadow protect to restore a image to a virtual server on the same network

using shadow protect to restore a image to a virtual server on the same network. first install xen5.5. restore from the image from the network drive share. disconnect the whole thing from the activate network, then start the windows virtual machine. windows 2003 will detect hardware change, will ask to re-activate in 3 days. if you missed that, you have to use telephone to activate.
move the server out of the domain, chaneg server name, run newsid (to rename it).

upgrade a hard drive with sql server db on it

stop all sql services (SQL 2005) in services.msc. use shadow protect do a incremental, use an e-sata bracket to extend x226 servers internal sata connectors. attach Lacie 2BIGTB external drive to the e-sata connection. e-sata cable is different from internal sata cable. restore to drive using shadow protect. it awful slow restoring abour 40GB data to 500 GB hard drive (abour 3.5 hours). no re-sizing is manually needed.
change drive letters as the data drive is not the C: drive. its funny coz its first time a system is running on external hard drive.

Shadow Protect and fileserver file restore

it is quite handy to restore files using shadow protect (storagecraft). especially the drives are backed up continuous incremental.

is shadow protect exchange / sql server

storageCraft's shadow protect, yet to figure out whether its exchange\SQL aware. it seems its SQL2000 aware.

Time to read the manual.