I sent out some servers(running server 2008R2 x64) without checking their windows update settings...fail. By default they are set to automatically download and install. I need them to download but not install. Can this be done through command-line? RDP is not an option.
Went to check on a high pitched constant beep coming from the server room and discovered that all the LED lights on the disks were black except one which had a constant green. Post a Re-boot nothing changed. Console indicated that that particular drive has failed. Pulled the drive out and BAM everything is fine. Except, the high pitched beep remains. Plan is currently to replace the drive with a new same size drive we happen to have purchased for expansion.
My question is, what will this do?
Will the NAS accept the new drive as a replacement for the failed one and decide to shut-up?
The Manual for the device is almost to straight forward and says that I can just swap drives out as I need but I find that difficult to believe: http://www.readynas.com/download/documentation/HM/RN4200_HW_24May10.pdf
Overview:
I use Windows Task Scheduler to run automated tasks. Occasionally I will see that randomly a task has failed to perform its duties. When I check Task Scheduler to see what has occurred in the history log, I see that for some reason, when the tasks are triggered at their schedules, they are spawning several instances of themselves simultaneously which turns into a train wreck for the task and it either kills the other instances and tries to run the "first" one, or it just does not run at all as it believes another instance of itself is already running. Sometimes this occurs in the same tasks and then occasionally it happens with others. The fix is just to end all instances and start the task manually.
Question:
Why would one single task with one single schedule decide to spawn multiple instance of itself simultaneously?
Note:
I've got a separate user account set to run the tasks instead of myself. That user is indeed an admin on the machine that runs the tasks and the tasks are set to tun whether or not the user is logged on. Also, the machine is windows server 08 R2.
Overview: I use a backup storage enclosure with 6 backup drives incrementally backup up and taken off-site. One day I noticed that the backup process was failing. I logged onto the server that is connected to the drives. I then noticed that none of the backup drives were currently mapped when the next one numerically should have been.
At first I chalked it up to a simple mistake of not mapping the drive previously. However, when I had attempted to map the drive BAK6 I received an error of: "parameter incorrect". BAK6 also had a specific flag of "active" in it's Status" where all the others are simply "Primary Partition".
I was able to map the other drives fine so I mapped BAK1 to E. When I removed and re-added the drive physically it auto mapped E to BAK6 unmapping it from BAK1. Then, BAK1 could not be mapped giving the same error. I ended up restarting the server and things started working again but now BAK6 is still marked as active.
Question: How do I remove this flag of active from the drive?