ISCSI Woes
So if your like me you may have been getting emails from WD (Western Digital) saying your MyCloud device is going out of support. I have been largely ignoring these but the deadline was fast approaching and I just wanted something that worked better. I knew the MyCloud just ran a software raid with mdadm […]
RMAN backup errors ORA-19510 and ORA-27045 on NFS share
I got this error below ORA-19510: failed to set size of 261894 blocks for file “/oracle_backup/PRD01_14816_3” (block size=8192) ORA-27045: unable to close the file Linux-x86_64 Error: 5: Input/output error First thing, let’s get the size of the backup piece (261894 * 8192) /1024 /1024 = 2046 MB = 2GB We are currently using a Windows […]
How To Seize Active Directory Roles
If you find your self in a situation like me a few days back I hope this can help. I ran into an issue attempting to add a Server 2012 machine as a domain controller in my current forest and I was getting errors like the following: Error determining whether the target environment requires adprep: […]
Fixing Issues With Drivers
I recently ran into some issues with an imaged machine that had similar drivers for WiFi and Bluetooth but they were not compatible with the hardware installed. This was causing an error code 43 in device manager using these steps helped me find what I needed to remove. What you have to do is set […]
IT Admin Must Have Software
So I have decided to start a IT Admin must have software list I will update the list periodicity when I manage to find the time. Number one on my list is a tool that is fairly priced and works great in Desktop Support groups as well as Server Administration. 1. DameWare Mini Remote Control […]