how to delete specific folder and all of its old verions on windows server 2008
on windows server we have snapshots taken twice daily.now there is a folder to be deleted but can't seem to get rid of all the old versionsfor example the backup for a specific version...
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I have bee trying to sync my music library to my phone so I can delete music and free up memory on my p.c. It worked about half way through the files and then went stupid and now the computer...
View ArticleDe-Duplication on 3TB of data behaving weird
Hi All,So have been playing with the lovely new Storage Spaces and De-duplication features in Server 2012 and have come across some strange behaviour. The test volume in question contains just over...
View ArticleMigrate clusterd File Server from windows 2003 64 bit to clustered windows...
Hi guys, can you tell me the right way to do this migration, keep in mind that the network name needs to be the sameActually this is my scenario I have a two node windows 2003 64 bit clustered with a...
View Articlepermissons in a last module
Pray for all,Please help me out i am trying to share a folder which contains larger amount of sub folders, which are not only larger in numbers but also biger in size, when i try to apply permission on...
View ArticleTrace DFS root and link query reqeusts
Dear Colleagues, We want to migrate an DFS namespace environment with thousand plus links. We are looking on for a way to do a basic business application impact analysis, to identify application...
View Article[2008R2sp1] Slow performance on Failover Cluster fileshare
We have several HP DL360G6 machines of which some are management servers, some are Hyper-V 2012 cluster, and some are Exchange / File / SQL cluster. The File cluster role is normally running on one...
View Articledfsrdiag.exe backlog showing one nameless file?
When have a dfsr hub and spoke setup for a replicated folder.The permissions were set on the spoke folders so no end users could modify the contents.To my surprise, when running a health report on the...
View ArticleRestrict Users to Delete files in Shared Foder
Dear FriendsI have a share Folder. I want users to access it, create folders and files and edit them. But restrict users to delete files and folders inside the shared folderAny Solution?M. Zubair...
View ArticleDynamic Memory and Data Deduplication
Hi,I'm currently testing W2K12 Deduplication feature on some servers, and I was wondering if I could enable "Dynamic Memory" on the VM in Hyper-V? Because the job only uses percentage of memory for the...
View ArticleMake Backup From Data on the File Server
OS: Server 2008 R2Hi There,I have 4 Tb data on my file server (SAN) and right now shadow copy is active on the servers so I have 30 days backup.I would like to make a backup of them every weekend to...
View ArticleDFS Namespaces
Hello,I have a question and wanted to know what kind of problems I may run into if I have some servers running Server 2008 R2 and some Servers running Server 2012, both running DFSR. Will there be any...
View ArticleDFSR and nightly resyncs
We have an odd issue which has recently started. We have 4 offices connected using DFSR replicating 1,300,000 files. We recently replaced 2 older servers with 2012 standard boxes with two other 2003r2...
View ArticleSTG_E_LOCKVIOLATION from StgOpenStorage when reading a network file from...
We have found that if processes on multiple machines attempt to open a networked structured storage file forreading they will occasionally report ‘A lock violation has occurred’ (STG_E_LOCKVIOLATION)....
View ArticleSystem Writer is not found in the backup
Hello,I have a new and updated Windows 2012 Standard OEM version on DELL Server. When trying to run a Bare Metal update I am receiving the error "System Writer is not found in the backup". I have...
View ArticleNFS Share on 2008R2 not working
Hi there,We have an NFS share on a windows 2003 box which works fine. We have built a new Windows 2008R2 and want to move the shares into this server. The permissions look identical but for some reason...
View ArticleHow to copy local users windows server 2008 r2
Hello everyone, Due to a hosting issue, I need to copy local users and groups from one server 2008 R2 to another in a different hosting company. Please note that those servers are not part of a forest...
View ArticleDFSR: Is it ok to empty the PreExisting folders after initial sync is...
We have pre-seeded hundreds of GB of data on our hub server, and several GB of data ended up in the 'PreExisting' folder for each replicated folder. Initial sync is complete for all of them and I...
View ArticleDFS on clustered servers?
Hello all,I hope you all can help, here's the scanario:I'm trying to install DFS between two clusters for namespace's sake. I have n1 and n2 clustered for Cluster1, which will host user data - n3 and...
View ArticleQuestion about Article ID 2550581 and Affected Platforms
Hi,I have an issue on a customer related to the problem described on Article ID: 2550581 and the platform affected isOS Name: Microsoft© Windows© Storage Server 2008 StandardOS Version:...
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