We have a Linux FC4 (old!) running with two mirrored sata drives (200gb each). This old setup has been working for years with Samba. The server is an IBM Netfinity that in my opinion, it uses too much power. Since it only does Fileserving, we'd like to shut down the box forever. Has anyone tried the DROBO (or similar). Will a solution like that use less power? Are there any alternatives to DROBO? We really don't use the server for other than DHCP and Fileserver, and the DHCP can be taken care by another server or a router. The idea is to use Drobo + the network stack that will allow us to leave it on and not need to connect it to a box.
I have a SQL Server (2000, 2005 and 2008) and I'd like to use SQL Agent (or even a simple backup database 'xxx' to disk = 'yyy'), to backup to remote drives.
I.e: i have a mapped drive in the SQL machine, for example: "M:" which maps to \\otherbox\someshare
By default SQL Server won't allow you to backup to such drives, but I think that there's a way to enable that. Can somebody point me to the docs?
Thanks in advance.
We have a few Windows Vista Business with User Account Control turned off (the reason is because those machines need to run a series of programs that do not work with UAC, the boxes have no Internet connectivity so this is not a security problem). But I'd like to know if there's a way to disable the annoying "popup" that appears every time they boot the machine. I know that Antivirus and other stuff has the "Not Monitored" flag in the Windows Security Center, but this doesn't seem to be present for UAC.
The users keep complaining about that and I was wondering if there was a "registry hack" or similar to turn that off.
Thanks!