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February 25, 2012

Recovering from Windows Home Server failure.

I spent good portion of Friday and Saturday recovering data from a failed Windows Home Server. I get better understanding on what really happened. Apparently One of the hard drive was having trouble and in turn brought the whole storage pool down. Insufficient RAM on HP MediaSmart also a contributing factor to the failure. Having the system paging the hard-drive constantly might cause the drop in performance.

Anyway, I managed to recover the data by mounting the hard drive on another computer. There’s a hidden “DE” folder where all the files are stored.

I have recovered 90% of the data and that’s enough to calm everyone at the office down. Having a dual T1 line doesn’t really help downloading 300GB back from off-site backup in time. As a matter of fact I’ll be ordering a new and much faster connection on Monday.

In addition to that I have ordered a Synology DS712+ so I can have backup of the backup for this particular office.

February 24, 2012

One Windows Home Server just took a dive.

I should have known the Windows Home Server was going to take a dive. Windows Home Server complained that one of the drive was not functioning even though it was spinning just fine when connected a diagnostic computer. Apparently Volume Shadow Copy Service has been crashing.

Well, I already ordered a Synology DS712+ and new hard drives to replace this Windows Home Server. Luckily I also have backup on Amazon S3.

February 19, 2012

This kind of day.

One of the hard drives in a Windows Home Server has gone bad. I’m working to get it replaced. Actually I want to get a new file server.

February 16, 2012

Preparing for OS X Mountain Lion Installation.

Apple has just announced the availability of OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview. For those who are eager to download and install this Developer Preview should proceed with caution. Without breaking any NDA’s we can safely assume:

It comes with delicious bugs and incomplete features.
It is not ready as your production machine.
Some of the applications might not work.

If you want to install OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview, you might want to consider the following steps:

Do not upgrade any of your Snow Leopard or Lion systems. Starting with fresh install is preferable.
Use a dedicated hard drive for Mountain Lion installation.
Create the OS X Mountain Lion installation media using DVD or USB flash drive from the InstallESD.dmg (Show Package Contents on “Install OS X Mountain Lion Preview 1” then go to “ContentsShared Support”).

Don’t forget to report any bugs you find to Apple at http://bugreporter.apple.com/.

February 3, 2012

Apple posts Security Update 2012-001 Version 1.1.

Security Update 2012-001 was released on Wednesday February 1st, 2012 and it broke Rosetta supports. Apple quickly pushed Security Update 2012-001 Version 1.1 to address the issue. For those who already installed Security Update 2012-001 Version 1.0 will be prompted to install Version 1.1 through Software Update.

January 29, 2012

Mac Pro RAID Card and 3 Terabytes Hard Drives.

Mac Pro RAID Card with model number A1247 does not have full support for 3 terabytes hard drives. This Mac Pro RAID card would only be able to recognize maximum 2.2 terabytes of the hard drive capacity.