The Network Administrator

As we now have instances which can be booted from EBS (hurray for that), you’re root is also increased to 30gb. But sometimes this still isn’t enough. Here is how you can increase your root partition drive using the AWS Console.

1. login to  your AWS Console
2. Go to [Instances], right click your instance and select [create image (EBS AMI)]
   This will make a backup (just in case)
3. Your instance will reboot, and come up again when the image is created. After that stop your instance (do not terminate it )
4. Next is to go to [Volumes], you will see a 30Gib volume somewhere which is attached as /dev/sda1 to your instance 

   Right click it and select [Create Snapshot from this volume].

5. Next, go to [Snapshots]. Right click the snapshot that you created in the previous step and select [Create Volume from Snapshot], you can then specify how big this volume has to become (for example 50 Gib).
6. After the volume is created go back to volumes again. You will see a volume which is as large as you specified in the previous step. The status of this volume is “available”.
   Now select the volume which is currently attached to your instance. It is the one you located in step 4. Right click it and and select [Detach Volume], it will then become available.
7. Now select your newly created volume, right click it and select [Attach Volume]. Select your instance (which will have a status of “stopped”). In the textbox “Device” type: /dev/sda1. Now click [Attach]
8. Fire up your instance and log in.
9. Open up computer management and select [Disk Management] (underneath the option [storage]). You will see that your root partition has some more space behind it.
10. Right click your root partition and select [Extend Volume], walk through the wizard. Eventually your root partition will be extended.

In my case I wanted to go from version 3.9 to 3.13

From the appliance console type these two commands.

apt-get update

apt-get install opsview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHATeW3CcgE

I read recently AppAssure was named Bronze Backup and Disaster Recovery Product of the Year by Storage Magazine.  Replay 4 provides recovery from a server disruption. Replay 4 is a server-based, disk imaging solution that automatically and continuously snapshots your entire Windows application server.

Replay 4 products including Replay for Windows, Replay for Exchange, Replay for SQL, Replay for Hyper-V, and  VMware ESX.

Only Replay 4 Features Continuous Backup with:

• 8Gb / Minute backup and recovery speeds
• Block level snapshots with incremental forever data capture
• Integrated deduplication reduces backup storage foot print by 80% or more
• Flexible disaster recovery options including bare metal restore and failover virtual machines
• Server rewind feature gives you the ability to roll back to any point-in-time, and recover the entire server or individual files, emails, SharePoint and SQL objects
• Application-aware modules check data consistency to ensure successful recoveries every time
• Cost-effective remote office protection
• Integrated replication to reduce storage costs and enable off-site and cloud-based backups
• Centralized enterprise console to manage a large number of servers and desktops

BIOS (basic input/output system)

Master Boot Record (MBR)

LILO (Linux Loader ) or GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader)

Kernel

init

Run Levels

I am passing along this link, I am hoping to try this out soon! I have an older IBM Server that I might be able to use. Or I may be able to do something in a virtual instance. http://lifehacker.com/5672051/how-to-build-a-hackintosh-mac-and-install-os-x-in-eight-easy-steps

Check out this link, really nice set of tools! http://www.backtrack-linux.org/

I have been using Google docs docs.google.com  for a long time, but recently I have also been using Microsoft Office Online office.live.com. I am using an HTC HD7 running Windows Phone 7 and both cloud services have an app for the phone which works really well.

Well then check out http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/index.html. SecureCRT for Windows and Mac provides rock-solid terminal emulation for computing professional.

Here is a list of features

http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/features.html

Peek at the pages in your search results with Instant Previews.

When you enable the feature, you can view a small picture of a search result by clicking the magnifying glass icon to the right of the result.

This is sooo fast! To enable the feature, just click the link on the homepage.

It is true, like many others if you applied SP1 to our Microsoft Exchange server you probably have angry Android users who are unable to connect with exchange server. Thanks to  laur.ie for the fix on.

1. Download the 2.2 stock Email.apk from here using the Android browser. Don’t attempt to install it, let it go in to your download folder on your SD card.
2. Open a terminal on your device. I use ConnectBot. Gain root using “su”
3. Run: mount -o remount,rw /system
4. Run: mv /system/app/Email.apk /sdcard/backup_Email.apk
5. Run: cp /sdcard/download/Email.apk /system/app
6. Reboot for good measure
7. Set up your sync