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Why don’t my SQL logs shrink after a backup?

January 26, 2021 by Wayne Small 4 Comments

I get this question often from various levels of technical people.  They typically have experience with Exchange servers, and they know that after a successful backup Exchange will truncate or cleanup it’s database log files.  They mistakenly think that SQL will do the same.  Let’s explore why each of these takes place and what is going on here. Historically … [Read more...]

Tips to configure ShadowProtect correctly

October 11, 2012 by Wayne Small 2 Comments

We pickup a lot of clients that have had bad experiences with other IT resellers.  As a result we get to see some pretty strange configurations that people have made which adversely affect the clients environment.  Here’s a few that I’ve seen with ShadowProtect that really should NOT be done. Running missed jobs automatically – this is an option within ShadowProtect … [Read more...]

How to backup your WD Sentinel DX 4000?

July 10, 2012 by Wayne Small Leave a Comment

One of the challenges that I’ve had with my 12TB WD Sentinel DX 4000 is how to go about backing it up.  You see Microsoft only designed the inbuilt backup utility to handle up to 2TB of space, yet my WD Sentinel has 8.12TB of data storage capacity as you can see below. Likewise, as you can see, I have almost filled it with lots of data, so losing something could be a … [Read more...]

How can I enabled Server backup on my Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials server?

March 5, 2012 by Wayne Small 5 Comments

Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials is provided only through specific OEM.  As such some OEM providers have chosen to disable the inbuilt backup utility that is used to backup the server itself.  The reason vendors have chosen to do this is due to the fact that the Windows Backup utility does not support source drives or destination drives greater than 2TB in … [Read more...]

Why do my client computers appear offline or backups fail in SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials?

February 29, 2012 by Wayne Small Leave a Comment

I’ve been getting quite a few reports back from people that after installing the latest Update Rollup 2 (UR2) on SBS 2011 Essentials and Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials, that the client computers have appeared offline and the backups have failed.  I blogged about the release of UR2 earlier this month here.  One of the things that I observed during the … [Read more...]

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