ashleyknowles

Category: Disaster Recovery

  • Backing up all SQL Server user databases to file

    The ultimate lazy backup script. I wasn’t feeling to selective about which databases to backup, and I figured, it’d be best to back them all up, even that testing database I occasionally use for data import/export. Never know when I might need it again… This sits inside a SQL Server Agent job, and runs nightly. Simple enough…

  • Recovering a RAID5 Array on the Intel C600 Controller

    Like everyone else in this digital age, my PC is full of stuff which, if I lost, would be beside myself. Pictures of my kids and all of those memories have a special place set aside on my RAID 5 array. A special place I had intended to backup but kept forgetting to setup. And…

  • Server Recovery with Acronis

    My boss forwarded me some emails from one of our client’s servers, dead disk, the usual. Get to the server, and it’s got nothing on the screen, typical… Reboot, no logical disks configured on the pov Promise RAID controller… Great. Luckily for us, we run Acronis TrueImage on this client’s servers, which practically does a…