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About the Club

Cloud Club Topics - Server maintenance

Questions

  1. Why do we need to maintain a server?
  2. What can go wrong?

Updates and upgrades

  1. What is the difference between an update and an upgrade?
  2. What gets updates/upgrades?
  3. Inform users - VERY IMPORTANT!!
  4. Hands-on installing patches
  5. Hands-on upgrading applications
  6. Hands-on upgrading operating system

Disk management

  1. Why do we need to manage our disks? Don't they just save data?
  2. Inform users - VERY IMPORTANT!!
  3. Defrag hard drives for Windows
  4. Scan/scrub volumes for bad sections/sectors
  5. Repair damaged volumes

User management

  1. What are users and who are they?
  2. Account types
    1. standard - have permissions to their own files, shared files ( within their permitted access / group )
    2. power users - have standard + additional permissions to do specific administrative tasks, like manage a specific application or content
    3. administrator/root - have full control of the server / OS
  3. Hands-on
    1. Add a standard account
    2. Add a poweruser account
    3. Add an administrator ccount
  4. How do you know which type of user to create for people?
  5. Should everyone get administrator accounts? Why or why not?
  6. Hands-on
    1. Delete a standard account
    2. Delete a poweuser account
    3. Delete an administorator account

Backups

  1. Why do we need backup? Don't servers just sit there and run?
  2. What do backups provide?
  3. Types of backups
    1. Full - complete backup, this set is the only one you need to restore data
    2. Incremental - multi-part backup, you need the last full backukp and all backups created after that to restore data
    3. Differential - multi-part backup, you need the last full backup and this backup to restore data
  4. Implementations of backups
    1. Online - Stored on a disk for ready access at a moments notice
    2. Offline - stored on some disk or tape away from the computer it holds data for
    3. Offsite - offline backup stored physically in another building
    4. Computer image - complete copy of the entire computer, OS + config + disk data
    5. Custom scripts - you create your own backups - don't underestimate the virue of data control and understanding
  5. Backup software
  6. Verify you backups - delete a file and restore it