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Written February 22, 2010 in howto, sysadmin, vmware

One method of backup or recovery isn’t enough. Period. No matter what anyone tells you, what the book says, what your boss says, or what you think you need, you need to be backing things up in many ways.

Here’s a few examples.

MySQL

Theoretically, you could recover anything you needed …

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Written November 23, 2009 in vmware

If you’re using raw access to storage LUNs with VMWare, and you’re using Windows, you can use the LSI Logic SAS virtual SCSI adapter option and create virtual drives. This is better than using the Microsoft iSCSI initiator because you can edit the drive mappings with the machine powered off …

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