I have configured a server with Centos 5.2, and am now working out a backup strategy. I plan on using Amanda as the backup application. Additionally, I am leaning towards using some USB hard drives for backup storage. I will be swapping out one of the Hard Drives each week for an offsite back-up. Does anyone know whether it is possibl...
We know that disk speed is an important performance component of a development machine. I'd like to understand how the multiple drives in my Windows Vista machine compare. Vista will give me a performance index for the system but what's a good (preferably free) benchmarking tool for measuring each drive's performance? ...
Is there a way to have Linux read ahead when cloning a disk? I use the program named "dd" to clone disks. The last time I did this it seemed as though the OS was reading then writing but never at the same time. Ideally, the destination disk would be constantly writing without waiting that's of course if the source disk can keep up. U...
I'm currently facing a hardware HD problem. Once of my HDs has semi-died. It works, kind of, data is being read, but every now and then it decides to not respond for a while. Windows hangs for a few seconds, and sometimes I get an event in my event log saying that the device didn't respond fast enough, or something to that effect. Now ...
I can get the HDD serial number using ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_PhysicalMedia"), and for each ManagementObject from the result set I can read the serial number. I am interested in another way of obtaining this information (without WMI) for IDE and SATA HDD, since I get mixed results with my current approach. Edit - ...
I'd like to study the effects my software has on different OS environments. I've determined the best way to analyze the differences involves storing the entire hard drive image as soon as the software is finished executing. What's a painless system (including both the hardware and software) that will allow me to quickly hookup desktop ...
Is there an easy way to get the serial number of all the hard disks in a PC using the Win32 API? ...
So I took some files with me on my external HDD while going on vacation. Through a series of events, I ended up storing the data in a NTFS formatted partition defined in a GUID Partition Table. The only computer I have is a Windows XP home box, which does not have native support for reading GPT's. So far everything I have read online ...
Down at that to bottom of this essay is a comment about a spooky way to beat passwords. Scan the entire HDD of a user including dead space, swap space etc, and just try everything that looks like it might be a password. The question: part 1, are there any tools around (A live CD for instance) that will scan an unmounted file system and ...
I wanted to know if I could just use Linux command 'dd' to make a copy of a hard drive. The hard drive has windows XP and the goal is to move data from a smaller HDD to this larger one without having to explicitly re-install windows. I personally don't know enough to know if this has the potential to screw up the file system. I also don'...
I was once looking for getting the HDD serial number without using WMI, and I found it. The code I found and posted on StackOverFlow.com works very well on 32 bit Windows, both XP and Vista. The trouble only begins when I try to get the serial number on 64 bit OSs (Vista Ultimate 64, specifically). The code returns String.Empty, or a Spa...
I am making an application that simulates an ATM (its totally trivial). I was having a little trouble saving my transactions to the hard disk. The two main questions are: A) Should I save it as a DB or a text-file, B) How would I save to disk using either DB or txt format in STL C++ (I don't really want to use a third-party library but I...
I would like to about if there is any HD- player that allows you to put in HD files and play on the Televesion instead of having to burn on to DVD 5 or DVD9. If so, what are the requirements and the products relating to this? Thank you ...
I've used some tools to recover deleted partition and the result was like I can see almost all files, I had before, but it seems that files are shifted - something like this: I can't open images, but when I open big video file I can see video of other file, which was in same folder and it starts from the middle of it... As far as i reme...
I'm trying to find some sort of command or regex to get the size and available or used space of a hard drive in linux. At the moment I'm using this; df -h and getting something like this; Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 10G 3.1G 6.4G 33% / /dev/sda2 147G 5.8G 134G 5% /...
i use this code in article http://www.geekpedia.com/tutorial233%5FGetting-Disk-Drive-Information-using-WMI-and-Csharp.html but it not work on my machine (russian xp sp3) what the problem? i need to get id hdd or mother board to prevent copy my program on other computers here is exception http://www.magicscreenshot.com/jpg/xwMD77wLW...
I'm currently trying to reproduce a bug that I think is caused by thread synchronization error. Sadly the bug does only occurred on the customer site but not on my development machine. Since those threads involve HDD access that is extremely slow at the customer site (about 1 MB/s) I think that the reason why I can't reproduce the bug ...
How can I put a hard disk drive in stand-by or sleep mode in Windows, in a programmatic manner. Does the Windows API or any .Net libraries provide any functions to achieve this? (I am aware that I should probably not interfere with Windows's power management mechanism, but this is not something I intend to use in a production environme...
Hi, everybody. I`m programming in obj-c using cocoa, and I would like to discover the HDD volume id programmatically.I know that I will probably need to do this in pure C and than use it in my app, but even in the C language I could not find any answers. Please help.Thanks! ...