BRU Server 2.0 was released this week, offering a long anticipated update to the popular cross platform backup suite of applications. The main two features that the TOLIS group is highlighting include Encryption of backup target sets and client initiated backup.
Whether you are a BRU, Atempo, Bakbone, Backup Exec or Retrospect environment, 318 can assist you with planning, testing, verifying or restoring backups. Contact your 318 account manager today for more details.
As with XP and Vista, Windows 7 doesn’t have the uber-useful (to us at least) Move To and Copy To options in the contextual menu’s by default. To create a Copy To menu item, go to the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers location in the registry and create a new Default key with a name of Copy To and a value of {C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}. To create a Move To menu item, go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers (the same location) and add a new Default key with a name of Move To and a value of {C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}. Now you should have the menu items. Notice that the keys are only different in the 30 at the end of the first string of hex numbers…
Windows, like Mac OS X can be put to sleep, locked or suspended from the command line. To suspend a host you would run the following command:
rundll32 powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState
To lock a Windows computer from the command line, use the following command:
rundll user32.dll,LockWorkStation
To put a machine in Hibernation mode:
rundll32 powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Hibernate
If you would rather simply shut the computer down, then there is also the shutdown command, which can be issued at the command line. You can also use tsshutdn, which provides a few more options than the traditional shutdown command. All of these commands can also be scripted. For example, using the at command to provide a one time instance (which is actually a feature built into tsshutdn and shutdown). Another way to automate these in WIndows would be to issue the schtasks command (or simply write a batch file and use the GUI).