My Day...
One of my readers asked me to include some computer stuff on the blog, so on days I do something interesting I'll do so.
I am spending a couple of days covering for the NetAdmin at a well known company. He's recovering from surgery. Today and tomorrow his 2nd is out also.
Today I installed Backup Exec on a couple of HP 64 bit Windows 2003 servers. I did not build the servers, but I did install them as Domain Controllers a month or two ago. About a year ago I installed a Reo NAS for these guys and built another BUE server to backup to shared iSCSI storage (superfast)
Note: Installation of BUE failed on one machine because it had (dot)Net v2 sp1 installed. I had to remove SP1 to get installation to work BUE installs its own (dot)Net v2.0.
I installed and configured a couple of 400 GB SCSI tape drives and inventoried and labeled 10 tapes. I created backup jobs and ran a BU of each machine. At 500 GB/min, it went pretty quick...fast machines. Remember to test the restore function.
Note: The default for media sets is to "never overwrite". You have to set the media set to "append then overwrite" as well as setting the timeout for "overwrite protection" to a time low enough to expire before the tape is used again.
Took a couple of hours.
The rest of the time today I worked (remotely) on configuring LiveMeeting on a Communications Server and figuring out why the LiveMeeting update wouldn't work on my laptop (you can't have LiveMeeting Outlook Add-on on the same machine you have Exchange Management Console on - and I've got shitloads of Management programs on my laptop).. I did some troubleshooting on a DNS replication problem, fixed a big honkin' Kyocera printer, investigated a Bluetooth connectivity problem, and tested (unsuccessfully) an AirCard.
I have no clue yet what I will do there tomorrow. Friday I'm hoping to upgrade a ASA5510 Cisco Firewall to a version that will allow it to accept Cisco AnyConnect VPN clients, and configure the IOS to do so. Fun Stuff for me. I'd like to fix the Bluetooth connectivity problem too, but that's more difficult...the Treo model phone I'm dealing with specifically blocks the feature I want...but I think I found a tweak on a forum.
That's pretty much my typical day...just replace what I did with anything else you can think of...hardware from Firewalls to SANs, software from client stuff to Server based, everyday is new. Most times I have no idea what I'm doing...but I know the secret - no one else knows what I'm doing either.
Update: On the way home I get a call that a company's email server has crashed right in the middle of a buyout. When I get home I remote into their system and fix the problem in about an hour and a half. The owner of that company calls one of our directors to thank him for the fast reaction. Our director didn't realize it had been fixed already.
Sometimes things go right.
I am spending a couple of days covering for the NetAdmin at a well known company. He's recovering from surgery. Today and tomorrow his 2nd is out also.
Today I installed Backup Exec on a couple of HP 64 bit Windows 2003 servers. I did not build the servers, but I did install them as Domain Controllers a month or two ago. About a year ago I installed a Reo NAS for these guys and built another BUE server to backup to shared iSCSI storage (superfast)
Note: Installation of BUE failed on one machine because it had (dot)Net v2 sp1 installed. I had to remove SP1 to get installation to work BUE installs its own (dot)Net v2.0.
I installed and configured a couple of 400 GB SCSI tape drives and inventoried and labeled 10 tapes. I created backup jobs and ran a BU of each machine. At 500 GB/min, it went pretty quick...fast machines. Remember to test the restore function.
Note: The default for media sets is to "never overwrite". You have to set the media set to "append then overwrite" as well as setting the timeout for "overwrite protection" to a time low enough to expire before the tape is used again.
Took a couple of hours.
The rest of the time today I worked (remotely) on configuring LiveMeeting on a Communications Server and figuring out why the LiveMeeting update wouldn't work on my laptop (you can't have LiveMeeting Outlook Add-on on the same machine you have Exchange Management Console on - and I've got shitloads of Management programs on my laptop).. I did some troubleshooting on a DNS replication problem, fixed a big honkin' Kyocera printer, investigated a Bluetooth connectivity problem, and tested (unsuccessfully) an AirCard.
I have no clue yet what I will do there tomorrow. Friday I'm hoping to upgrade a ASA5510 Cisco Firewall to a version that will allow it to accept Cisco AnyConnect VPN clients, and configure the IOS to do so. Fun Stuff for me. I'd like to fix the Bluetooth connectivity problem too, but that's more difficult...the Treo model phone I'm dealing with specifically blocks the feature I want...but I think I found a tweak on a forum.
That's pretty much my typical day...just replace what I did with anything else you can think of...hardware from Firewalls to SANs, software from client stuff to Server based, everyday is new. Most times I have no idea what I'm doing...but I know the secret - no one else knows what I'm doing either.
Update: On the way home I get a call that a company's email server has crashed right in the middle of a buyout. When I get home I remote into their system and fix the problem in about an hour and a half. The owner of that company calls one of our directors to thank him for the fast reaction. Our director didn't realize it had been fixed already.
Sometimes things go right.
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