Delete Shadow Storage

http://blog.acarter.co.uk/2012/02/server-2008-vss-cannot-remove-snapshot/ I tried to use vssadmin by doing a ‘vssadmin list shadows‘ which sure enough showed me the copy, but when trying to delete it with the ‘vssadmin delete shadows /for=g:‘ , I was returned the error: Error: Snapshots were found, but they were outside of your allowed context. Try removing them with the backup application which created them. The […]

SSH tunnel, SOCKS proxy, and PuTTY

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/93106-escaping-the-firewall-with-an-ssh-tunnel-socks-proxy-and-putty – shows how to set up proxy w/ SSH tunnel http://shell.cjb.net/ – allows to set up an SSH account and I checked that I was able to use it for proxy setup Apparently, having SSH tunnel started slows down my internet connection 🙁 It is fun seeing my connection routed via a server in Mongolia, Japan, the Netherlands or France. […]