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It appears that the Plesk backup utility (pleskbackup Linux) writes to a temporary file prior to moving it to the final destination you’ve specified on the command line. ie. When running: /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup all /mnt/nfsshare/pleskbackup.bak Plesk writes the whole backup file to the local disk in /var/lib/psa/dumps/tmp/: # ls -lah /var/lib/psa/dumps/tmp/ total 1.9G drwx—— 2 psaadm [...]

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Was having a problem with a Windows Virtuozzo VE/CT and needed to check the VE/CT virtual disk for file system corruption. URLs: http://kb.parallels.com/en/1008 Commands issued to check the virtual disk file for errors: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>vzcfgt get 100 GUID {A88D866B-0382-47FC-9BFB-37056F286745} C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>vzdskctl mount d:\vz\private\100\root.ef d {A88D866B-0382-47FC-9BFB-37056F286745} SUCCESS C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>chkdsk /f \\?\Volume{A88D866B-0382-47FC- 9BFB-37056F286745} C:\Documents [...]

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http://clintm.esria.com/2006/11/20/configuring-windows-2003-firewall-and-iis-6-for-pasv-ftp-port-range/ http://support.microsoft.com/?id=555022 Make sure that IIS is setup to allow the meta base to be edited whilst running and then run: cd Inetpub\AdminScripts adsutil.vbs set /MSFTPSVC/PassivePortRange “5500-5520″ iisreset Then you need to open the ports in the firewall.  If using the inbuilt firewall you can add the manually like: C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts>NETSH FIREWALL ADD PORTOPENING TCP 5500 [...]

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For some reason I couldn’t login to RDP of a Virtuozzo CT/VE so I had to go in via the VZ hardware node. URL: http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/446/xp_kill_windows_process_command_line_taskkill tasklist Listed all the tasks.  It appears that EXCEL.EXE had 100s of processes running so I needed to kill them.  I tried:  taskkill /IM EXCEL.EXE But, it warned me that [...]

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For some reason I couldn’t login to RDP on a machine and needed to restart a service.  The following commands were useful: sc query sc query PleskControlPanel sc start PleskControlPanel

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