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...]
How to resolve STOP Error c00002e2 when restoring from a backup into a virtual machine
We’ve done a DR for a new client this week that we picked up when their server failed. Last known good backup was to tape drive a week ago, which is not ideal. We were unable to fix the hardware of the server, but were able to get a cold image of it using ShadowProtect IT Edition. We restored it into a virtual machine on a Hyper-V 2012R2 server and when it booted … [Read more...]
Free StorageCraft IT Edition to help recovery of Hurricane Sandy
Here’s a VERY generous offer from the people at StorageCraft in the USA – FREE IT Edition for the next two weeks specifically to help people in the hurricane Sandy affected areas. Well done StorageCraft for the community spirit here! Hurricane Sandy Help In light of the severe damage many people are facing as a result of Hurricane Sandy, StorageCraft wants to … [Read more...]
Windows failed to start – 0xc000000e Error
Been doing a bit of work recently for a customer in migrating their physical environment into a virtual test environment. We’ve used ShadowProtect IT Edition as part of that solution. On some of the servers, we’ve received one of two errors. Status: 0xc000000e Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible. or File: … [Read more...]
Disaster Recovery of older Active Directory Domain Controllers.
Today we were doing a Disaster Recovery for a client. Well not so much as a Disaster Recovery, but a recovery of old data from an old tape. The tape was from April 2011. The data we wanted to recover was from an NTBACKUP of Exchange 2003. We needed to recover the CEOs Mailbox as he’d “lost” certain emails that were now considered important. Anyway … [Read more...]