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[[cloud_club|About the Club]]

==== Cloud Club Topics - Server maintenance ====

==== Questions ====
  - Why do we need to maintain a server?
  - What can go wrong?

==== Updates and upgrades ====
  - What is the difference between an update and an upgrade?
  - What gets updates/upgrades?
  - Inform users - **VERY IMPORTANT!!**
  - Hands-on installing patches
  - Hands-on upgrading applications
  - Hands-on upgrading operating system

==== Disk management ====
  - Why do we need to manage our disks? Don't they just save data?
  - Inform users - **VERY IMPORTANT!!**
  - Defrag hard drives for Windows
  - Scan/scrub volumes for bad sections/sectors
  - Repair damaged volumes

==== User management ====
  - What are users and who are they?
  - Account types
    - standard - have permissions to their own files, shared files ( within their permitted access / group )
    - power users - have standard + additional permissions to do specific administrative tasks, like manage a specific application or content
    - administrator/root - have full control of the server / OS
  - Hands-on
    - Add a standard account
    - Add a poweruser account
    - Add an administrator ccount
  - How do you know which type of user to create for people?
  - Should everyone get administrator accounts? Why or why not?
  - Hands-on
    - Delete a standard account
    - Delete a poweuser account
    - Delete an administorator account
  
==== Backups ====
  - Why do we need backup? Don't servers just sit there and run?
  - What do backups provide?
  - Types of backups 
    - Full - complete backup, this set is the only one you need to restore data
    - Incremental - multi-part backup, you need the last full backukp and all backups created after that to restore data
    - Differential - multi-part backup, you need the last full backup and this backup to restore data
  - Implementations of backups
    - Online - Stored on a disk for ready access at a moments notice
    - Offline - stored on some disk or tape away from the computer it holds data for
    - Offsite - offline backup stored physically in another building
    - Computer image - complete copy of the entire computer, OS + config + disk data
    - Custom scripts - you create your own backups - don't underestimate the virue of data control and understanding
  - [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_backup_software|Backup software]]
  - Verify you backups - delete a file and restore it