AWS EBS Snapshots Automation (Disaster Recovery) from Windows PowerShell

AWS EBS Snapshots Automation (Disaster Recovery) from Windows PowerShell

It is always a good idea to reduce hardware dependencies by moving your data to the cloud. Cloud is much more flexible than traditional hardware infrastructure including VMWare. But you still have to consider the ability of recovering data as and when required. This always helps you to keep your business running with minimal interruption. In AWS, there are several

NTFS Permission issue with TAKEOWN & ICACLS

NTFS Permission issue with TAKEOWN & ICACLS

Most of us using TAKEOWN or ICACLS for taking ownership from command prompt, and both of them are simple to use. We generally use TAKEOWN or ICACLS with following switches to taking the ownership. takeown /F “PATH” /R /D Y /A icacls “PATH” /T /setowner Administrators But unfortunately, TAKEOWN & ICACLS both might failed on certain scenario, as there are

Automatic NT-Backup (System State Backup) with retention period and e-mail notification after complete.

Automatic NT-Backup (System State Backup) with retention period and e-mail notification after complete.

A simple script for automatic System State backup where you can easily set backup retention period and it also send you an e-mail notification after completion. With this script you can also archive backup log and if you wish u can also set backup log retention period. It can also set backup files with date stamp. For e.g., SysBackup_ComputerName_24-03-2009.bkf You