Yearly Archives: 2016
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Updating Windows 7 to Windows 10 hangs at Checking for Updates
Posted on May 14, 2016 by Chris Couture in Windows.I recently tried updating a couple of Windows 7 computers to Windows 10 and after downloading and creating the media, the installation wanted to check for updates. This took forever and never moved from 0%. I read a little and found that the Windows Update Service was causing the problem and this quick solution fixed […]
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Event ID 12293 Error calling a routine on a Shadow Copy Provider
Posted on March 2, 2016 by Chris Couture in Windows.I struggled for a while on this one so I figured I’d post my findings here. I have been trying to use the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone to convert a physical Windows 2003 server to a virtual machine. Every time I would try, I would get a “Unable to create a VSS Snapshot of the […]
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Getting Bacula to send daily summery emails with MariaDB
Posted on February 5, 2016 by Chris Couture in Bacula Tricks.I was looking for a way to get a summery report of the last backup jobs ran in the last 24 hours and I ran across this article here http://www.revpol.com/baculasummaryemails. When I tried to get it working with my installations using MariaDB, it wouldn’t work. I found that the Mysql query code had to be […]
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