Blog entries tagged disaster recovery

SCO Unix on VMware ESX - virtualisation solves a client's problem

Tom Finnis — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:00:00 +0100

A few months ago we took over the IT support for an insurance firm in the City, but with the contract we inherited a problem the previous IT company couldn't resolve. Part of the firm's business still ran on a ten year SCO Unix server which was barely clinging to life and hadn't been backed up for three years. They still had a support contract with the original suppliers of the SCO system but they had quoted over £10k to migrate their data to the current platform. The system was runningRead More...

Recovering files from a failed hard drive

Eusebio Echevarria — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:00:00 +0100

I received a phone call from a friend who uses a Macbook and they asked me if it is bad when you turn the Mac on if nothing appears on the screen except a folder showing a question mark. After a few minutes of research and a few probing questions I found that the hard drive was making the dreaded clicking noise. It was apparent that the hard drive in the Macbook had died!

In this particular model Macbook the hard drive was accessible by removing the battery then unscRead More...

NTbackup Common Issues & suggested solutions

Meraj Khalid — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Whilst checking our client's backups I've come across several common problems so I thought I would share the solutions.

Errors: Could not access portions of directory System State\COM+ Class Registration Database.
You may not have permission to open the file, or the directory may be missing or damaged.
Please contact the owner or administrator. "

Error: Could not access portions of directory System State\Registry.
You may not have permissRead More...

Linux Disaster Recovery & Bare Metal Restore

Tom Finnis — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

We recently had an enquiry from a client who has around 150 Linux servers in about 20 data centres scattered around the UK. They have a perfectly effective backup solution but were interested in improving their Disaster Recovery, in particular how to speed up recovery of a server in the event of hardware failure. In particular they wanted a solution that would allow them to take complete system images that when required could be quickly restored to a replacement server. Not only that butRead More...