I'm trying to figure out the pros and cons for backing up to a disk device vs. using a virtual tape library like the Clariion Disk Library. You're backing up to disk on both of them, presumably at the same speeds but it seems that the VTL adds a level of complexity and cost. Does anyone have any...

I'm considering an Exabyte 10-slot VXA2 Autoloader (1U) and was wondering about reliability. Fitting a 10-slot mechanical tape management system into a 1U rack space sounds very complex and prone to reliability problems. Anyone have any comments and/or stories about these devices, either positive...

If you are considering a VXA tape drive from exabyte (formerly ecrix) you should be aware of a fatal flaw. Even though ads show a tape soaking in a cup of coffee and a claim that the data is still recoverable, the tape header is extremely fragile. If you are doing a backup and the computer...

I am a frequent user of VXA drives. Our facility performs hundreds of tape backups per year. I have a tape that was made in 2003 using Retropect (as all our backups). the tape is a V17 and was made on a SCSI VXA-1. I have tried to restore the contents on a VXA-2 and VXA-1. Neither drive or the...

I am backing up several PCs using Backup Exec for Workstations (version 4.61) to an Exabyte VXA-2 tape. I just started getting the message that the tape is full and it wants me to insert another tape. In theory, this is an 80 GB tape drive and I am using the VXA-2 80GB tape. This problem started...

Ok, customer has a Clariion without replication manager or snapview. We need to back up a couple of terabytes. What I want to do is mount the vxfs filesystems read-only on another Sun and backup directly from that host via a couple of directly attached scsi LTO drives. Can someone tell me why...

Output from vxprint. Disks are in an EMC Symmetrix 8830. We are seeing high % busy for c6t17d21 to c6t17d25. Based on different disk size below, could I have used STRIPE layout instead of CONCAT? Thank you. Disk group: app dg app default default 91000 1032974724.4739.svr01 dm...

Free Veritas VxVM/VxFS training and access on a Solaris system. I have a Solaris system with 11 disks, I'd like to, with those who agree to terms and conditions, share the learning experience. For more information, contact me. On that system, you may, learn, VxVM, VxFS.... I also offer a...

Hi guys, Trying to take a hardware snapshot (HDS, EMC, Netapp, whatever) of a VxVM enabled LUN and mount it back to the same host. Obviously the snapshot is going to be identical as the primary LUN so the Veritas private region will have identical diskgroup name and group id information. How do...

A quick one, albeit likely to have been flogged to death in this group: If the the device file of a disk change as result of access through a new HBA, relocation to a new SAN or whatever, what would happen to the VxVM objects configured earlier on the disk? For example, suppose the device name of...

Hey. I'm in a situation in which I'm having to bone up on a bunch of VxVM stuff w/o access to a system: doing it all by reading Veritas manuals and SunOS/VxVM man-pages on the web, and taking notes (which helps me learn). A few weeks ago, I looked for Veritas-dedicated Usenet groups and found...

Hello NG i hope you can help me or figure out my problem whenn I´m in the wrong NG please told me My System: IBM Netfinity 7000 M10 Qlogic 2200F direct attached to EMC Symetrix W2k Advanced Server is installed on the first HD (Disk0)(C:) that is

Assume a file /home/test in the WAFL filesystem and its snapshot as /.snapshot/hourly.x/test Both of them are having the same inode number say INO Now if /home/test is changed, why doesnt its inode number change, since INO will be needed to represent /.snapshot/hourly.x/test?

I believe that if a aggregate has more than one raid group then data writing will be accross all the raid group in horizontal fashion. So if have bigger aggregate then better throughput due to more spindles. First any comment on this. Whether I am right or not ? If I check disk utilizations...

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Hi all, One of our clients in the managed hosting space with data centers nationwide has an immediate need for a Support Engineer with expertise in Backup and Storage technologies - especially Veritas Backup Products. This is a customer facing role, so previous experience supporting customers is...

WANTED: Spectra Logic firmware latest update tape for the 10K library If you've updated your library and the tape just laying around. I'd be interested in it. Shoot me an email. Thanx. dogk1cker -at- yahoo.com

Hi, If you have an extra firmware tape, I'd be interested in purchasing it. Our E10000 is stuck at the initial bootup window and won't complete the bootup. The support personal said the firmware is corrupt and needs to have the firmware reloaded. They won't sell me the firmware tape unless I...

Hello, Just wondering if anyone has seen this message before and if they could point me in the right direction. Trying to determine if this error message is more specific to Qlogic HBA's, Hitachi Storage, or a Brocade Switch (all in our SAN). ----------------------------------------- WARNING:...