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System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) provides some great automation benefits for those organizations that can afford the hefty price tag. Ho…
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When you shadow copy a disk volume, you are actually generating a snapshot of the changes made to the folders and files within the disk volume at a c…
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So far we have covered in great detail the main files required for the firewall.cx domain. These files, which we named db.firewall.cx and db.192.168.0, de…
Linux - Unix
The db.192.168.0 zone data file is the second file we need to create and configure for our BIND DNS server. As outlined in the DNS-BIND Introduction, this…
Linux - Unix
It's time to start creating our zone files. We'll follow the standard format, which is given in the DNS RFCs, in order to keep everything neat and less co…
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A file system is nothing more than the way the computer stores and retrieves all your files. These files include your documents, programs, help files, gam…

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