Create vpn between servers (use remote access and routing, and create the other server as a peristant dial on demand route)

Make user say “sqlserver_agent” on both servers, with same username and same password.
Make directory on primary server eg c:\database_logs
grant access to both “sqlserver_agent” and “network service”
share path on primary server.

create log destination folder on secondary server eg “c:\database_restore_logs” make sure both “network service” and “sqlserver_agent” can read/write to it

make sql server agent on both run servers with the same account as above.

make sure database on primary server is in full mode.
back up database to share, and manually copy it across. manually restore it on the other site, but leave it in standby mode (had to do the manual copy since sqlserver.exe isnt running as the service account, and therefor couldnt access the network share where it was living on. only the agent could)

use the wizard to create the jobs on both servers that do the restore.

my wizard for some reason created the job with the wrong hostname and the sqllogship.exe command couldnt talk tot he server, so had to edit it from the wierd windows hostname that it had and change it to the ip of the host. using the correct hostname probably would have worked as we..

the user “network service” has no access over the network to do fuck all. dont use it for trying to communicate to other hosts.. i tried enabling guest, adding network service to all the shares, enabling everyone, and a whole lot of other things.. just create a service account on both servers with the same details and that will work just fine!!

used these sites for info

http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/2562/sql-server-log-shipping-to-a-different-domain-or-workgroup/

http://omaralzabir.com/how_to_setup_sql_server_2005_transaction_log_ship_on_large_database_that_really_works/

Ive shamelessly stolen these commands (although ive changed some of them)from elsewhere..

Create the file system and restricted access.

dd of=/path/to/secretfs bs=1G count=0 seek=8
chmod 600 /path/to/secretfs


Create a loopback device for the file
losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/secretfs
Creates the volume, asks you for the key, and then creatss the DM mapping
cryptsetup -y luksFormat /dev/loop0
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/loop0 secretfs

Pad the file so it generates its random data
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/secretfs

Create the filesystem
mkfs.ext3 dev/mapper/secretfs


# Mount the new filesystem in a convenient location
mkdir /mnt/cryptofs/secretfs
mount /dev/mapper/secretfs /mnt/cryptofs/secretfs

And an encrypted volume is setup.

Now how to unmount:

umount /mnt/cryptofs/secretfs
cryptsetup luksClose secretfs
losetup -d /dev/loop0

Remount:

losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/secretfs
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/loop0 secretfs
(enter password when prompted)
mount /dev/mapper/secretfs /mnt/cryptofs/secretfs

Now stuff that i can never remember how to do is grow the volume.

Make sure the volume is closed, unmounted etc.
umount /mnt/cryptofs/secretfs
cryptsetup luksClose secretfs
losetup -d /dev/loop0


Add 20gig to the file
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=20 >> /dev/mapper/secretfs


Remount and reopen part of it

losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/secretfs
cryptsetup lucksOpen /dev/loop5 EncryptedFS


check the FS first
e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/EncryptedFS

once thats done grow it
resize2fs /dev/mapper/EncryptedFS
and your done. You can now open the volume for use

So i recreate the user on the instance which is fine , and then try and regrant it permissions on the database but it fails because its already there…

To fix…

User DATABASE
EXEC sp_change_users_login 'update_one', 'usernamehere', 'usernamehere''

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174378.aspx

So heres the tools and what i needed to do it:
Backups are stored at: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup) or on a PC (c:\Documents and Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup).

Iphone backup extractor for OSX
how-to-save-and-read-your-iphone-text-messages-on-your-computer
how-to-recover-your-iphone-files-photos-contacts-notes-sms-call-history-etc

Couldnt work out how to pull up previous backups though.. only the latest one.. which is a pain..

Shorter emails are better.. apparently

trunc(timefieldhere,'dd') + round(to_char(timefieldhere,'sssss') / 300) / 288)

grep '^D' Filename  | sed -e 's/\(^.\{43\}\)0\(.*\)/\1M\2/g'

That looks for any line in “Filename” that starts with D… then if the 44th character is 0, replace it with an M.
kgo.

grep "^D" Filename | sed -e 's/.*/&XX/'

That looks for anything in Filename and adds “XX” to the end of the line..
Another Useful link

'Script to map and remove printers from old print server to new one
'Needs an entry in findNewPrinter function for each mapping
'nfrankish;2010-03-21

Set objNetwork = CreateObject("Wscript.Network")
strComputer = "."

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Function findNewPrinter(Printername)
                select case PrinterName
                case "\\OldPrintServer\OldPrinterQueue"
                                findNewPrinter = "\\newprintserver\newprintqueue"
                case else
                                wscript.echo  "Printer: " & Printername & " not found"
                                findNewPrinter = ""
                end select
end function

Set colPrinters = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
    ("Select * From Win32_Printer Where Local = FALSE")

For Each objPrinter in colPrinters
                wscript.echo "Printer: " & objprinter.Name & " Default: " & objprinter.default
                strNewPrinter = findNewPrinter(objprinter.name)
                if not (strNewPrinter = "") then
                                objNetwork.AddWindowsPRinterConnection strNewPrinter
                                if (objPrinter.default) then
                                                objNetwork.SetDefaultPrinter strNewPrinter
                                end if
                                objNetwork.RemovePrinterConnection objprinter.name, true, true
               end if
Next

Low and behold 3-4 years later, for the same price linode now offers the Linode 360, with 10Gig of storage off the bat. Every 6 months or so, so far, the team at Linode have managed to excite us all, by giving us free upgrades, the last one 20% ram increase for xmas. Ive been through countless free RAM upgrades, as well as storage, and transfer, and not once has there been a cost associated with it.

The only reason i can say that my uptime is not massively large, is that they keep giving out these upgrades that require us to reboot to take advantage of them. Otherwise i havnt had a much of a problem or downtime, that i havn’t caused myself, or was outside of Linode’s reachs (Datacentre issues).

Thats not to mention the friendliness and helpfulness of the 3 admins, Caker, Tasaro, and Mikegrb who are always available via the ticketing system, and atleast one is generally lurking in the irc channel (#linode on irc.oftc.net). On top of the help from the staff, there are always people arround in the chat channel that are more then willing to help out on just about any linux topic, linode related, or not. That and the forums are always bristling with activity, be it howto guides, customer feedback, announcements or community help requests with specific platform/software packages.

These days i have 3 linodes, 2x 360mb, and a 540mb one, ive never looked back…

With servers in 3 different data centres, full root access, friendly staff and a great community behind them, if your looking for a VPS, you can stop looking. Linode is the place to be.

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First off there is
pvdisplay which shows you which physical drives are alocated to what volume group
lvdisplay which gives you details about the actually logical volume, such as its status etc.

Now the part that initially tripped me up was forgetting to create the partition to LVM type on the raid
pvcreate /path/to/device
It’ll show up something like this

pvcreate /dev/md3
Physical volume “/dev/md3″ successfully created

Next step is to add it to the existing group
vgextend /path/to/device

channel:/etc/lvm# vgextend vg00 /dev/md3
Volume group “vg00″ successfully extended

Now that its in the volume group and its extended that group to incorporate all the devices, you need to extend the logical volume.
lvextend -l +536551 /dev/vg00/lv_space
Where 536551 is the extents listed as free as shwon by pvdisplay

Now that that is done, its just a matter of extending the file system..