It’s true: people still use Windows 2003. For one reason or another, be it obstinance or some other archaic piece of software, companies are forced to hold on to the Windows 2003 server operating system for much longer than many of us would like. “Volume Shadow” was a nice feature incorporate in to Windows 2003 server.
All it takes is just one interruption while writing that UPDATE line for a password, leaving off the critical WHERE clause, and suddenly all of your users are locked out. Or some other minor error that is inadvertently made. Whatever the cause, you are left with a mysql server that has all of your data,
Under linux, use the command “ssh-copy-id user@host” rather than playing around with the authorized_keys files and the id_dsa.pub or id_rsa.pub files. Life is so much easier.