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join:2005-06-17
Camp Hill, PA | Glad it was NOT an MS Platform Shows how good the SUN/Oracle platform is if it can recover data from corrupted disks....
If it were an MS solution there would be nothing.
Shows why companies that rely on their data don't use Microsoft. | |
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 | jester121
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Lake Zurich, IL | Re: Glad it was NOT an MS Platform It's a wonder they're still in business, since so few people use them.  | |
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bender
Bite my shiny metal ass
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join:2005-03-19
Evanston, IL
clubs: | Re: Glad it was NOT an MS Platform yep nobody uses microsoft. nobody | |
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| fiberguy
My views are my own.
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| Ummm.. last I checked, it's noting really to do with SUN/Orocale, Microsoft, etc.. a hard drive failure or what ever is a failure.. but, you're right to say that it's amazing that a HARD DRIVE can be recovered..
It also shows that a GOOD company would have a backup system in place on anything mission critical... this was a complete failure on some admins' part. | |
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Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
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| Re: Glad it was NOT an MS Platform RAID should be recoverable.
Backups, should be done, and should work. The question is... when was the last successful backup perfomed ? Were there issues in replacing hardware (old?).
I've had very good success rate on SUN boxes. Its a simpler OS in general (*nix), however OS = OS disks, Data = Data disks.
You can always reinstall OS. You can't always recover data.
If you have a decent data center management, patches/OS/firmware upgrades will typically be kept in check. I've known of issues in the past of attempting to get disks/RAID controllers and having different rev versions... painful.
Many high end vendor products are well integrated - Eg. I worked on a DG-UX device with EMC storage on fiber channel. Disk failure (OS) was mitigated, as the EMC controller rebuilt the disk, even while the box was powered down.
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| The OS has little to do with data recovery. An OS can crash, but your data volumes and arrays are still there.
Before you go and blame the OS the servers are running on, (or praise it), perhaps you should spend some more time studying data recovery, data storage, NAS, SAN, etc. And for that matter, read up on replication & backup technologies.
Blaming this on an OS, or praising the OS - whomever the maker - shows how little you know about corporate infrastructure. 
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| ElJay
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1 edit | What SAN hardware and software solutions does Microsoft offer? | |
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| BosstonesOwn
join:2002-12-15
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| you sure your in it ? Or what ?
Don't know about you , but any system that is backed up can recover from bad disks.
second point is ntfs is actually very sturdy and with alternate streams built into the file system recovers very well from disk corruption.
Just some times a vital file gets hit , which has not happened to me since 2002 when I upgraded to XP from win 2k. Maybe you need to review your back up and data retention strategies.
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join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| the old days Lets see how many people will remember this as a lesson to never trust cloud computing/software as a service and to remember how to live in a world post- »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse holocaust. Remember what a paper contact book looks like in your wallet? Remember how to use a payphone? Remember how to develop film? Remember how to schedule meeting someone without "I'll call you when I'm getting close"? Remember how to do taxes on paper? Remember how to contact the fire department when your house is on fire without tweeting it first? And for some, remember how to use a voice phone call (the text/email/IM-only folks)? Or remember how to use a yellow pages book? Or remember how to use a public library and books? Remember how to use the post office? Remember how to order something from a catalog by mail? | |
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join:2002-02-10
NYC
| Re: the old days said by patcat88  :Remember how to contact the fire department when your house is on fire without tweeting it first? ROFLMAO! Sad, but true.
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| amungus
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join:2004-11-26
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| When I worked at an elementary school a few years ago, it saddened me greatly that some kids, in 5th and 6th grade, had no idea how to use either a dictionary or a telephone book.
Some kids were literally frightened at the prospect of using either.
It was also shocking to them that I remembered life before the internet... It would be like imagining a world without cars or motorized vehicles I guess (too difficult for most people to imagine).
...Well, still glad the data was "found" and "should be" able to be restored...
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| ImBatman
join:2004-04-21
Lancaster, CA | what's a yellow pages book? ;):D | |
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Dread
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Bronx, NY | Meh Sidekick phones and it's users are irrelevant anyway, only kids use this crap. | |
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Bronx, NY
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| Re: Meh It's true no person who conducts serious business uses a sidekick as the device of choice. If this had been a blackberry issue then it would have been all over CNN. This incident was minor and only reported on hobbyist sites like this one. Sidekick users are as important to the wireless industry as Boost mobile users or Metro PCS for that matter. | |
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bender
Bite my shiny metal ass
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join:2005-03-19
Evanston, IL
clubs: | Re: Meh is iphone in the same category? i sure hope so. actually BB is too. they are all just different niches, no one is better than the other. | |
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sporkme
drop the crantini and move it, sister
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| Re: Meh said by tiger72 :Because their shit gets posted on here and elsewhere constantly. I don't see you whining about them whenever there's a post about that device which "no person who conducts serious business" uses. I do see you whining EVERY TIME there's an iPhone news item.
I had no idea a phone could anally rape someone, but clearly this has happened to you.
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SexaT duorP
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clubs: | And I see you whining every time it's NOT about the iphone. Go figure. | |
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Macs suck
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join:2005-02-28
Bronx, NY
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| said by Theman2006 :It's true no person who conducts serious business uses a sidekick as the device of choice. If this had been a blackberry issue then it would have been all over CNN. This incident was minor and only reported on hobbyist sites like this one. Sidekick users are as important to the wireless industry as Boost mobile users or Metro PCS for that matter. This^ | |
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join:2003-01-08
Newtown, PA | 100 dollars, data back, a month free.. And still not as cool as the iPhone.
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