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Budget Windows Mirroring

  By Chris | October 3, 2010 - 8:50 pm | Tech
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Last week I put a plea for help up about my quest to find a way to mirror some directories between servers. That isn’t so difficult, but the desire to have it real-time – or almost real-time – made finding a cost-effective solution difficult. I put a post up on … Continue reading →

Tagged free, mirror, robocopy, sync, Windows

WhatsUp Gold Engineer’s Toolkit

  By Chris | June 30, 2010 - 9:55 pm | Tech
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The folks at Ipswitch released their WhatsUp Gold Engineer’s Toolkit this week. I was in the beta for the past month and find it a pretty handy ‘kit. What I hadn’t realized was that they’d be giving it away for free when launched. Nice! So hey, if you do any … Continue reading →

Tagged free, Ipswitch, network, utility, WhatsUp

Help the Eyes with f.lux

  By Chris | April 19, 2010 - 8:55 pm | Tech
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F.lux is a pretty cool utility and a bit unlike the sort that I normally check out. It won’t cure a virus, nor will it help repair a hard drive crash.  What it may do, however, is perhaps a bit more important: It might help your eyes. As the day … Continue reading →

Tagged f.lux, free, utility

Switching Home Backups to CrashPlan

  By Chris | April 1, 2010 - 10:35 pm | Tech
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For our home backups I’ve primarily been using the free version of Mozy for three and half years now (first look). It works great for us and the few times I’ve needed to recover files there have been no issues. In fact, the only issue I’ve had is not having … Continue reading →

Tagged backup, CrashPlan, free, mozy

A Quick Look at Log Parser

  By Chris | March 18, 2010 - 9:42 pm | Tech
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This morning I was alerted to the fact that one of our clients was having problems with our application last night. Unfortunately, none of their end users had captured any of the error messages. I checked the SQL and Windows Event logs but found nothing helpful. Then I had a … Continue reading →

Tagged free, IIS, Log-Parser, logs, microsoft, Tech-Ops, utility
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