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Formatting Travan Tapes

The shortcut to Symantec Backup Exec should always be in All Users\StartUp so that it automatically opens whenever a user logs into the Server. A Server should then be locked using CTRL-ALT-DEL when work has been completed on a Server - rather than logging out of the Server. This will keep the Symantec Backup Exec program open and running on the Server. 1. Open Symantec Backup Exec and click Devices. 2. Under storage devices, expand server. 3. Expand stand-alone drives. 4. Right-mouse click the tape drive and select inventory. 5. Click Run Now. 6. Click Job Monitor and wait for the job to complete. 7. Once the job has completed, click Devices. 8. Right-mouse click the tape drive and select Quick Erase. 9. At the warning box, click OK. 10. When prompted, are you sure you wish to erase the data on the media - click Yes. 11. Click Run Now. 12. Click Job Monitor and wait for the job to complete. 13. Once the job has completed, click Devices. 14. Right-mouse click the Tape D...

Configure And Use UltraVNC (Reverse VNC Configuration)

Configure Router Port Forward for Port 5500 to Internal Private IP Address. Download UltraVNC from http://sourceforge.net/projects/ultravnc/files/ Install UltraVNC on Server, selecting Yes to install Mirror Drivers but not selecting the option to install UltraVNC as a Service. On Server, click on Start - Programs - UltraVNC - Viewer and right-mouse click Run UltraVNC Viewer (Listen Mode) and send it to the Desktop as a Shortcut. Double-click the Shortcut on the Desktop so that the UltraVNC Viewer on your Server is listening for an Incoming UltraVNC Connection. An icon appears in the System Tray found in the lower right-hand corner next to the time clock. Ask the remote user to double-click the HelpDesk.exe program that they have on their computer. The HelpDesk.exe file has been created using the UltraVNC Single Click Online Creator found at http://www.uvnc.com/pchelpware/sc/creator.html. A screen is then displayed asking the remote user to Double Click Here. When the remote user dou...

Analyze Yahoo Web Hosting Logs

Following are the steps to analyze Yahoo web logs. Using the WebLog Expert program, you will see a variety of information such as Referrers, Hits, etc., etc. 1. Download the free WebLog Experte Lite from http://www.ydownloadwle.com/ 2. Install the software on your computer. 3. Browse to http://www.domain.com/logs/ 4. Right-mouse click a log that interests you and save it to your Desktop. For example: access_100120.log is the log file for January 20, 2010. You would normally only want to review a log file for a previous day - one that encompasses the entire duration of a day. The more activity, the larger the size of the log file. 5. Double-click the WebLog Expert Lite shortcut on your Desktop. 6. Click the New button. 7. In the profile field, type the date of the log file. 8. In the domain field, type: www.domain.com 9. In the index file field, type: index.html 10. Click Next. 11. Click Browse and select the access log on your Desktop. 12. Click Finish. 13. Now double...

Yahoo Domains Merchant Solutions Error

When you use Yahoo Domains Merchant Solutions as a subdomain ala store.domain.com as opposed to www.domain.com, the Store Editor - Search Engines page displays the wrong location for the XML files. The page displays www.domain.com/path when in fact the location is store.domain.com/path. Displayed Incorrect Location http://www.domain.com/path/catalog.xml Actual Correct Location: http://store.domain.com/path/catalog.xml

Travan40 Jumper Settings

There are four jumpers to the left of the 40-pin IDE Interface. The jumper that is the closest to the IDE Connector is Jumper 4. When Jumper 4 is jumped, the Device is set to Master. When the jumper is unjumped, the Device is set to Slave. The jumper to the left of Jumper 4 is Jumper 3. When only Jumper 3 is jumped, the Device is set to Cable Select. Please Note: The BIOS Setting must be enabled that allows the CDROM and the Travan40 tape drive to be properly detected. Also the Boot Order may need to be the following in order to avoid any error messages: Cerc IDE Drive SATA Drive CDROM Floppy

What are the recommended settings for Symantec Backup Exec?

tools - options - media management - media overwrite protection level set to none media tab - rename ovwrite to allow overwrite set overwrite protection period to 1 hours 1 hours under devices tab create removable backup-to-disk folder location on usb drive add email recipients set smtp server as localhost set limit to 2 times every 1440 minutes set backup job to attach log of backup job.

How do you configure YPops?

1. Select Tools -> Email Accounts from the main menu 2. Select Add a new email account and click o­n Next 3. Select POP3 as the Server Type. Click Next 4. Enter your username and full Yahoo! email address under 'User Information' 5. Enter your Yahoo! Login id and password under 'Logon Information' 6. Enter '127.0.0.1' as your Incoming mail server 7. Enter '127.0.0.1' as the SMTP server as your outgoing mail server 8. Click o­n the More Settings button and select the Advanced tab 9. Increase the Server Timeout to 'Long' (10 minutes) 10. Select the Outgoing Server tab 11. Enable "My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication". Select "Use same settings as my incoming mail server". 12. Click Ok to close the More Settings dialog 13. Click Next and then Finish