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Ok, simple question. I am planning to buy 2 X 2 terrabyte drives for backups. My question is, can Backup Exec be set to not overwrite so I could have 2 weeks+ worth of backups contained on 2 seperate drives. I'm not backing up enough to fill the drives up in one go. Thanks for your advice.

Right, I'm trying really really hard to remain calm as I write this so if it strays into the realms of ranting, forgive me. Firstly, I come for a a Windows background, around 8 years of server/network experience. I am now for one reason or another forced to work with Macs. They are slowly...

Hi, Is there a way I can calculate the percentage of files between a certain file size? Would it be something I'd need to write a script for or is it built into the OS like auditing is on Windows? Thanks.

Ok, new job, part of which involves looking after an Apple Mac OSX server. Very little documentation and nobody remembers the last time it was restarted. I had to restart it yesterday for maintenace safe in the knowledge that the documented password was the right one. It wasn't. So, now I'm left...

Hi, I have written a batch file that calls osql to run a backup by passing a backup.sql file to osql. Here's what I have: A batch file containing the following: osql -E -i c:\backup.sql In the backup.sql file is the following: BACKUP DATABASE BESMgmt TO DISK = 'C:\BES DB...

I have a load of Blackberries that I am upgrading for the users at work. I need to move the contacts that they have stored in their local address book to the new Blackberry. I've installed the Blackberry Desktop Manager but it fails to export the address book into ASCII format. Are there any...

I have just installed a new printer for a selection of macs on a network. To install it I used the HP installation CD and when prompted for the Administrator password I entered the Admin username and password. The printer driver installs and everything is fine. Until a restart. After the mac...

Hi all, I know there is a way to do this, I just don't know how to enable it! We have a big turnover of staff and we need a way to accept e-mail to each account even though the account itself is disabled. I also need to put on a Out of Office on the disabled accounts but accept the e-mail so...

I've set up a HTML form that will e-mail the results to me. Everything works except that the data e-mailed to me is all one string with the individual value results seperated by &'s. Is there any way to automatically format this data before e-maing it?

Searching for the above problem only revealed one hit and it wasn't very informative as to a solution. Here's my problem; Our company has a website that external users need to access. This site is not viewable publicly on the Internet for reasons too long to go into. In order for users to...

One of our users has the problem where he can't copy text from the local PC to his Citrix session. All other users can do this without any problems and on the odd times it's happened before I've fixed it by altering an .ini file on the local machine. Now it's come time to do it again I can't...

Hi all, I have just installed the free version of VMWare and have installed 3 virtual machines - 2 X XP Pro and 1 X Win 2003 Server. All virtual machines are connected together via a virtual network (Vmnet1). The server is issuing DHCP addresses to the 2 clients without any problems. However...

Hi all, Now first off I know as much about VB Scripting as I've learnt this morning. After the sucess I've had so far (up until this point) I'm really going to learn more about it. Ok, so here's what I want to do. Upon user logon, the .vbs script will unmap all network drives on the client...

Hi all, Now first off I know as much about VB Scripting as I've learnt this morning. After the sucess I've had so far (up until this point) I'm really going to learn more about it. Ok, so here's what I want to do. Upon user logon, the .vbs script will unmap all network drives on the client...

I have an issue with one of my users in that the Inbox is reporting back that the folder and all it's subfolders come to 158,500KB (approx). If I add up the totals of each of the sub folders they come nowhere near to the total for all folders that is being reported. As the mailbox is being...

Ok, here's the scenario... I have 2 OUs, one called Desktops, one called Users. I have a policy in place on the Users container to make the screen saver kick in after 15 minutes and lock the screen requiring the user to enter their password to unlock it. This works fine but I am now in a...

Ok, here's the current structure of my AD. I have 3 OUs, one called Desktops, one called Laptops and one called Users. Each contains what you'd expect them to contain. I have a WSUS server up and running on the network. I have configured the Desktop OU and the Laptop OU with a Group Policy to...

Can this be done? I want to run a batch file that will check if the correct entry is set in a reg key and if not change it to the correct entry. This is what I have so far: REG QUERY "HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop" /v Wallpaper >NUL && set WALLPAPER=Correct IF %WALLPAPER%==Correct...

Is there a way I can check if a service is already running using the command line? I want to use it in a batch file such as "If the service isn't running, uninstall it and reinstall it". I know I could just use a NET START but in this case it's not that simple. Thanks for any suggestions/help.

This is a very simple batch file I'm using to copy check if the company wallpaper is installed and if it isn't, install it. It works but not the way I want it to. I want it to check if the wallpaper already exists and not try to install it if it does. But for some reason it installs it...