When you record video with an iPhone 3gs and then backup using iTunes where are those video file stored? I'm trying to retrieve some lost files.
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Windows Server 2008 R2 allowed deployment of Terminal Server (Remote Desktop Services) without a domain, and without any insistence on domains. This was very useful, especially for standalone virtual or cloud deployments of a server that is managed remotely for a remote client who has no need or desire for any ActiveDirectory or Domain features.
This has become steadily more and more difficult as Microsoft restricts its technologies further and further in each Windows release. With Windows Server 2012, configuring licensing for Remote Desktop Services, is more difficult when not on a domain, but possible still. With Windows Server 2012 R2 (at least in the preview) the barriers are now severe:
The Add/Remove Roles and Features wizard in Windows Server 2012 R2 has a special RDS deployment mode that has a rule that says if you aren't on a domain you can't deploy. It tells you to create or join a domain first. This of course comes in direct conflict with the fact that an Active Directory domain controller should not be the same machine as a terminal server machine. So Microsoft's technology is not such much a Cloud Operating System as a Cluster of Unwanted Nodes, needed to support the one machine I actually WANT to deploy. This is gross, and so I am trying to find a workaround.
However if you skip that wizard and just go check the checkboxes in the main Roles/Features wizard, you can deploy the features, but the UI is not there to configure them, and when you go back to the RDS configuration page on the roles wizard, you get a message saying you can not administer your Remote Desktop Services system when you are logged in as a Local-Computer Administrator, because although you have all admin priveleges you could have (in your workgroup based system), the RDS configuration UI will not accept those credentials and let you continue.
My question in brief is, can I still somehow, obtain the following end result:
I need to allow 10-20 users per system to have an RDS (TS) session.
I do not need any of the fancy pants RDS options, unless Microsoft somehow depends on those features being present. I believe I need the "RDS Session Host" as this is the guts of "Terminal Server". Microsoft says it is "full Windows desktop for Remote Desktop Services client.
I need to configure licensing so that the Grace Period does not expire leaving my RDS non functional, so this probably means I need a way to configure TS CALs.
If all of the above could technically be done with the judicious use of the PowerShell, I am prepared to even consider developing all the PowerShell scripts I would need to do the above. I'm not asking someone to write that for me. What I'm asking is, does anyone know if there is a technical impediment to what I want to do above, other than the deliberate crippling of the 2012 R2 UI for Workgroup users? Would the underlying technologies all still work if I manipulate and control them from a PowerShell script?
Obviously a 1 word Yes or No answer isn't that useful to anyone, so the question is really, yes or no, and why? In the case the answer is Yes, then how.
I'm constructing a backup script for Windows 7, and the last action I want it to perform is to safely "remove" the USB drive that it is backing up to. I am under the impression that plugging the drive into the SAME USB port all the time will keep the same DEV_ID, correct me if I'm wrong. With a Command Line (or PowerShell), how can I tell Windows to safely remove the hardware automatically without user input?
Just as a place holder, other OSes that may have a way to do this would be great to know as well
I have made a backup using Acronis 2010. And I've tested it on vmware.
And I'm having problems booting up the dual boot vm. After restoring from the .tib file. What do I do?What other software that can image the os can you recommend that is easier to use than Acronis.
I try command
rsync -v --files-from=/path/to/list.lst /home/user /path/to/backup
list.lst contains for example
.gnupg/
.pki/
.gnome2/keyrings/
.mozilla/firefox/*.default/bookmarkbackups/
.mozilla/firefox/*.default/bookmarks.html
.mozilla/firefox/.default/.db
files
.mozilla/firefox/.default/.sqlite
and i get error on all strings with * "failed: No such file or directory".
Can anybody help me, or as variant can i combine
find `cat /path/to/list.lst`
with rsync?
About to rebuild my XP install and figured I'd see if there was a file or interface for collecting the configs for the built in Windows XP wireless manager.
I've looked under the "advance settings" tab and within the properties GUI for each connection and I'm not seeing a way to export the configs.
Clearly if I'm exporting these I'd like to be able to import or override the default config with the backup.
I'm using Skydrive to store the music I purchase from Zune in the cloud so that I can share the songs with my wife's computer. However, I don't want to sync all the subscription music which is music I haven't purchased.
Zune puts all the subscription music into the default music folder in a separate folder called Subscription.
Is there a way to have just this folder somewhere else?
I know you can't currently exclude folders in Skydrive, otherwise I would just take this route.
I have a backup copy of my previous Documents and Settings folder which only contains my original user and within that, 2 directories (Favorites and Local Settings) which are visible in cmd shell but when I try to delete them, Windows gives me this error:
If I try to delete the Documents and Settings folder, I receive this warning:
I tried doing this in a cmd shell:
attrib *.* -r -a -s -h /s
But it did not help, nor did it return any errors/warnings.
Unlocker 1.8.5 returns: No Locking handle found.
Any ideas?
I'm taking over IT responsibilities at a small company. Most of the servers appear to be running various releases of Fedora (file servers, backup servers, oracle servers, etc).
I don't have much experience with Fedora, but I was under the impression its geared for end user desktops/workstations/laptops.
Is Fedora a bad choice for servers?
I need a desktop app that I can run on my Windows server that will give me access to files from:
S3
Rackspace cloud
Google docs
FTP
That's what Cyberduck gives me access to right now.
Essentially, what I'd like to do is copy & move files from one of those services to the others.
I have two SATA HDDs in my desktop PC (one for daily activity, one for storage and backup). I can finely use ReadyBoost with pendrives, but I wonder, Is there a way I could use my underutilized second HDD to participate in the cacheing mechanism (same concept as having two CPU cores crunch things in parallel: have two HDDs fetch data in parallel)? Clearly speaking: I want to enable ReadyBoost on my separate D: drive.
Is there any way to untar and only extract those files that are above a certain date including directory structure??
I restored a backup on a play server but it was a few days old. However I have a tar archive of the entire structure that is more up to date and healthy so now I want to extract all files (including directory structure) based on a date filter on the files if possible?
We need to reformat the SQL cluster disk in our SQL cluster. The drive contains the shared installation files for SQL as well as databases.
My concern is how SQL/The Cluster will react to after we wipe the disk resource.
Questions:
Is there a defined procedure for this?
How should we backup and restore the disk?
After the reformat, how do we get the clustered SQL server back online?
Thanks
i want to implement a cloud computing model with some nodes
each node having limited hardware (specifications are 1.6ghz 400mb ram 10gb disk and 100gb bandwidth)
how much users it can bear simultaneously without crashing down....
pls help
I'm trying to clone my windows xp installation.
If I back it up using clone zilla and the my xp machine is infected by virus/spyware would I also be bringing the whole mess when I try to back it up.
Do I need the whole partition/ whole disk if I use an external hard drive to backup.
Would the data be formatted on the partition that I choose?
There's a bucket into which some users may write their data for backup purposes.
They use s3cmd to put new files into their bucket.
I'd like to enforce a non-destruction policy on these buckets - meaning, it should be impossible for users to destroy data, they should only be able to add data.
How can I create a bucket policy that only lets a certain user put a file if it doesn't already exist, and doesn't let him do anything else with the bucket.
I keep data on a USB drive, but I also keep a copy of all of that data on a hard disk. I like using the hard disk because it's faster and gives me a backup. What standalone tools would work to keep the files on the disk and USB drive in sync? I'd like a single command line executable or standalone GUI app that can do the job--something I could run off of the USB drive. So, things like the MS Sync Tool wouldn't work.
I have over 8GB in my "Code Library" that I maintain on a 64GB ScanDisk Ultra Backup USB Device.
Windows Search 4.0 (installed on Windows XP) can index removable drives, but Windows 7 (which uses Windows Search 4.0) cannot because the USB device identifies itself as a Removable drive and Windows 7 refuses to index removable drives.
How can I mount the USB Thumb Drive as Fixed instead of Removable?
All suggestions welcome and greatly appreciated.
Hi,
A user deleted his documents from his laptop somehow and has no backup available. How would one go on his way to recover these deleted files. I have zero experience on this issue.
Are there any open source or freeware tools that I can use to attempt a recovery of these files.
Thanks
Our organisation has three sites; a head office, where the master copies of company files are stored, plus two branch offices using only workstations and a NAS or two. Currently we're talking about <10GB.
At the main office, we have no admin access to the file server, as this is entirely controlled by the larger institution where we are located. For the same reason, we have no VPN remote access to this network. Instead, we simply have access to a network share using over a Novell LAN.
Question: how can we share files between offices in way that minimises latency, i.e. that gives us a mirror of the main network share at each site? (There is little likelihood of concurrent editing, and we can live with the odd file conflict now and again).
Up to now branch office staff have had to use GotoMyPC-type solutions to remotely access files held at the main office. Or email.
I was hoping to use Google Drive on a dedicated workstation at each office to sync the contents of the network share (head office) or NAS (branch offices) via the cloud, but at my last attempt (29 Jun '12), the Google Drive installer would not allow me to designate the remote network share as the "target" folder.
(I chose Google Drive over Drobbox et al. as we already use GMail for corporate mail)
The next idea was to use a designated workstation at head office to mirror the network share to a local drive, then use Google Drive to push that to the cloud. This seems a step too far. Nor do I have any good ideas about how to achieve this network/local mirroring, as we can't, for example, install the rsync daemon on the server.
I do not want to use Google Drive locally on each workstation as this will inconvenience users, and more importantly, move files off the backed-up, well-maintained (UPS, RAID etc) network share at head office.
Our budget is only in the £100's.
Should we perhaps just ditch the head office server and use something like JungleDisk? At least this presents the user with what appears to be a mapped drive.
I am using this is fstab to mount the partition at backup.
/dev/sda5 /media/virtual ntfs defaults 0 0
When i reboot the permissions are automatically set to 777.
I want that only one user i.e userA can read and write , all others should not see the contents of that drive.
What should i do
anything like
/dev/sda5 /media/virtual ntfs userA 700 defaults 0 0
I took a backup of a directory which has a number directories and files inside them. Recently some files have gone missing. I would like to just move over the missing files.
I prefer moving files instead of just copying as space is a premium on this particular box and the files are quite large.
How can i achieve this?
I'm looking to store some data online but I want to encrypt the files first. Since I understand that sFTP will only encrypt the transmission of the data, I'm wondering what program others use to encrypt their files prior to sFTPing them to a backup server.
Thanks.
I know this is a loaded question!
What are the best ways to manage Windows (2000, XP, Vista, Win7) workstation from a centralized linux server. I would like to replace the fuctionaility of MS SBS Server with a linux box. The following issues would need to be addressed.
File Sharing
Authentication, Authorization, and Access Control
Software Installation
Centralized Login Script
Centralized Backup
I'm trying to setup rsync to backup a remote directory to my local drive.
I cd to the directory that I want to pull the files to, then I enter:
rsync -vrtW [email protected]:~/public_html
I enter the password then it starts running. I get all the files listed, but none of them actually transfer. What am I missing?
Thanks