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by jcmoffitt

Today I will be building a 2003 server and installing it into Active Directory , updating firmware, Dell Perc array drivers etc.  I noticed that I have not been here in quite some time.  I hope to change that in the future.  This last couple of weeks I have been starting a new contract at a local power company and I am working on the Network Services Team who supports 200+ servers on W2k, Windows 2003 with Active Directory.  We have several Novell File/Print servers as well as Unix etc.  I am learning Tivoli Storage Management which is used for data backups and restores here. 

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Today is Friday and instead of cruising around in low gear I am burning brain cells on my latest TASK.  How is it that tasks always turn in to mind bending, brain cell burning projects before it is all said and done?

Currently I am trying to figure out how to backup our eDirectory database on our Windoze servers.  More specifically I was tasked with figuring out how to utilize emtools and the ebox/java client to backup the open files that are being cached to memory while eDirectory is running.  Open File Services in Tivoli Storage Management probably will not get a copy of the files open in memory.  So, embox is supposed to be able to take a snapshot of the eDirectory database files that are cached to memory and create a hot backup image that TSM can then backup to the SAN and then to tape.  Well, I have until Tuesday to have this accomplished so wish me luck... 

 

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Today I discovered that I need to upgrade eDirectory 8.7.3 to service pack 8 so that I can use the dsbk.dlm file which is the new and improved solution from Netware over emtools and embox.  Embox has issues such as leaving your password unencrypted and being shown as clear text.  Once I upgrade my Windows servers to eDirectory 8.7.3 sp 8 I will be able to backup up eDirectory on our Windows servers.  The trick is to FIND sp 8 on the Novell website.  That is assuming it is already released at this point.  Wish me luck. 

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The other day I needed to move an SQL database from one drive to the next.  I am not an SQL guru so I had to figure this out.  I am dealing with a large Dell Openmanage project with hundreds of W2k and W2k3 servers.  Anyway to make a long story short the Dell OM techies gave me this as a solution.  The following commands actually took the 1.5gb database and shrank it to 5mb.  That means I did not have to worry about moving the database to a new drive. Supposedly when I moved OM from C to D on the server the database file was supposed to be relocated automagically.  For whatever reasons that never happened. 

Open a command prompt and type:
osql -E
use itassist
go
BACKUP LOG itassist WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY
go
DBCC SHRINKFILE (itassist_log , 5)
go

 

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