Dear Experts

We have to setup  an application server which is web-based (LAMP stack) for which we are planning to procure the server with 10TB disk and with vmware hypervisor , the application  server will be running on VM, it is very much important for us to setup a disaster recovery and business continuity for example if server crashes or due to physical damage at head office (primary site)  goes down then  the  server at recovery site to ensure business continuity.
 we have 2 branch offices one connected with mpls vpn to the head office where this new server going to be setup and another office is having leased line connectivity. please suggest on the following and which is the best one recommended you can add other plans please
1. while purchasing the dell server is there software  if purchased and as well procure same identical config one more server and host it in the branch office, hence 2 servers of identical configurations and the software will mirror the volume and data - if primary site goes down the recovery site comes to live for the business continuity

2. OR should we have to look for automatic vm backup with veeam and this can be configured replicate from the primary site to the recovery site

please suggest thanks in advance.

Hello EE,

I have a data file in tab delimited format , I wish to create a new custom object of specific targeted data fields , then export each object as a individual text document . I scripted a simple import of csv with applicable headers  as per below  , with an rloc grouping . ' rloc' is the record locator . powershell group "values" output below.

How would I go about selecting specific 'segment types' example , NAM, FLT etc to reconstruct this into a specific data format as show immediately below this line . Each one will be outputted into an individual txt file for further processing. I have also attached sample data file .

QK YQMTTXH
.HDQRM1Z 131453
HDQ1Z *RLOC*/EQ43/67522766
*NAM*
*FLT*
*FLT*


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$datafile = gci 'C:\temp\EE_sample.txt'
$import = import-csv -Header "Rloc","Pnrline","SegmentType","PNRData" -Delimiter "`t" $datafile 
$groupedrloc = $import | group-object rloc -AsHashTable

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Rloc                               Pnrline                            SegmentType                        PNRData                           
----                               -------                            -----------                        -------                           
Rloc                               Pnrline                            SegmentType                        PNRData                           
AAAWMG                             1                                  NAM                                1.1TEST/MAHMOUD     

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EE Pros,

I have struggled over the years with backup devices and backup software.  I have some specific questions about a Seagate 4TB drive I just bought.  First of all, while the box sells the device as a cloud enabled solution, the cloud portion requires a separate fee with Seagate instead of a internet connection with the $150 device.  

Here are my questions;

When using the Seagate Dashboard, if you back up your harddrive, you get this incredibly long number that represents a backup.  The way I use to do it is  to have a DATA file on my harddrive and simply copy the DATA file over to a backup drive.  My hunch is that in order to back  up ONLY CHANGES to the Datafile on my harddrive, using the Seagate software, I must put up with the long number rather then  my own file names.  Is that true?  If so, I can select back up at a frequency, for example, "daily" and it should only refresh the changed data. Also, can I restore this data to another Windows 10 system or do I need to image the entire drive?

Any insight into proper tactics in backup and restore procedures would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

B.

When creating a recovery image for my Microsoft Surface, I am supposed to start by creating a USB recovery drive and then download a recovery image for my specific Surface. This download is a zip-file, and after having decompressed its content, I am advised to drag all these files to the created USB recovery drive and replace all files in the target. However, in the decompressed Surface folder I find dozens of folders that seem to be language specific having names like "fr-ca", "hu-hu", "it-it", "ja-jp", etc. (See attached screen dump). Do I really need to drag all these folders as well over to my USB recovery drive? Is it not enough to only include the language folder I want to install?

I have a server running Server 2012.  I made a backup of the OS drive, and it is broken up into the following:

Backup 2018-03-19  021305
Catalogs
Logs
SPPMetadata Cache
Medaid

Now if my server crashes, how do I take these folders to re-install to bring it back with all the settings?   Is there a step by step list on how to take these folders to a bootable disk and then re-install.   the server has a Data partition that is saved to the cloud every night,   The server is split into a raid 1 and raid 5.

I have a PC at home with Windows 10 Home.  I have the primary OS hard drive; I only put OS related things on this primary drive.  I also have 3 other hard drives of varying sizes/brands; they are large sizes too that hold my Steam games, movies, TV shows, music, photos, etc.

How do I backup all my hard drives to one hard drive?  Does Windows 10 home have this already?  I believe I would need to get some 2-5TB hard drive to hold all the collective data from each hard drive, but what software should I use to accomplish this?  Will this software do regular backups?  I'm open to free and paid software recommendations.

I have a Kingston 16GB usb flash drive that does not show up anymore when I plug it into any computer.  
I have tried the flash drive in 4 different computers, bot PCs/Macs, and it's not recognized.  Is there any software out there that anyone knows of that will help me recover my data?

Here's what I tried:
Software:
https://www.icare-recovery.com/
https://datarecovery.wondershare.com/

Both of the above programs does not recognize the flash drive.

Here's what I've tried so far (no particular order)
1. under disk management (when I plug in the drive, a "removable" K drive does appear, and when I unplug it, it disappears
2. under device manager, I updated the drivers for the root bridge
3. under disk management, I did a right click on hte K drive and did update drivers there as well
4. did a diskpart, list disk, and disk 8 shows no media, 0B, 0B for both size and free (I'm assuming same disk as in disk management), I tried to select the partition, but nothing worked
5. I went to kingstons website and googled for data repair software, couldn't find anything

Not sure what else I can do?  Any ideas?  I really need to get the data from the usb drive.

Hi,

I have a micro sd card for my dash cam, it was working(recording) before I dismounted it. I have tried different card readers, no luck. One of the EEs suggested me to use a smartphone to see if it is readable. I tried, it worked for a short period of time.

I was wondering if EEs have any suggestion for data recovery service.
It is a 64G sd card.  thanks

What is the best way to expand replicated datastore without breaking the replication in VMware?
I used to expand snapmirrored  NetApp datastore (NFS), but unable to do EMC's RecoverPoint replicated LUN.