Hello all, We're running out of space on our current DLT1 and DLT4000 tape drives, so I'm going to be upgrading quite soon. Our current backup solution is as follows. Win2k DC #1 (the original lone server is a SQL server, file server, DHCP, DNS, etc) - using arcserve to backup to DLT1 Win2k DC...

Hello, I am planning to experiment with an online service technology for file sharing something similar to sendthisfile.com or putfile.com where there is a huge storage requirement and bandwidth Any ideas of a cost effective storage solution (in Linux or MS) which could be implemented from a...

I've seen a lot of switching over from IDE disks to serial ATA disks. In fact, an Intel blade server we want to purchase does not have any choice. The question I have not been able to answer is, "Do they provide the special services that high reliability systems need?" What I mean by that is...

Is there something that will do this type of conversion? Some formula or rule of thumb? Something other than just taking a time sample of both sides and averaging it. Thanks. ~F

hi.. I would like to use ordinary Seagate (purchased on the market) 80 pin SCA disk on Clariion.So I have formatted 18 GB disk on Seagate's Seatool as 520 byte per sector than inserted to Clariion but system immediately showed OFF on Clariion Presantation utility.. Is there anybody have an...

Having managed an environment with 30 netapp filers (200 plus TBs) for over 5 years, I find myself constantly struggling with issues of downtime. As the technology is clustered and not N+1, for replacing disk controllers, for upgrading the level of ONTAP, for replacing any card within the head we...

I am planning to build a RAID array for long life file server. With upgrades in the operating systems and computer hardware becoming more and more rapid, I would like to be able to host all the home directories on this RAID server so that the client machines can be changed or upgraded as...

Hello, we currently have a Netapp F760 with two FC9 shelfs doing NFS storage for mail servers. We have experienced a lack of performance in the last weeks: the cpu level is still under 50%, so we suppose that the problem is the read/write access to disks. In your opinion, upgrading to F8xx NAS...

Hello everyone, we are currently looking to solve one of our Borland CaliberRM Server's major bottlenecks, namely our IO-Subsystem. We are using a dual Xeon Server with lot's of ram and overall we never see -high- a cpu usage, but pretty often long write wait times / disk queues. Operating System...

Juk with 20k mp3's. Try typing something into the search bar and wait, and wait and wait and wait for the cursor to catch up. This is on a P4 3.6ghz machine. Amarok Has ANYONE been able to make this POS work? It crashes all the time and seems to want to scan my collection of mp3 files every time...

Hi :) I just got a external Quantum DLT-7000 SE TH6BE-YF Tabletop unit, single-ended SCSI tape drive . The manual says I need to have a "68 pin active LVD/SE Multi-Mode terminator" but when I try to find one I get really confused about all the different types and models and pins. Does anyone...

What is RAID 1+0? A mirror of 2 stripe sets? Or a a stripe assembled from lots of 2-disk mirrors? I've heard that one of those ways is bad, and thus the widely used RAID 1+0 uses the second way. Why the first way is bad? -- Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP StorageCraft...

I am having a problem with a Brocade 2400 switch: I can't see the drives (Sun T3 RAID units) from Linux hosts with Qlogic QLA2342 cards also connected to the switch. Each device is connected directly to the switch (no loops), and the switch sees the devices on each port. The Linux servers just...

Hello I've just bought a Maxtor diamondmax plus 9, 250GB, SATA/150, HDD and want to use it for storage and don't really have much of a clue how to set it up. This is my set up now if this helps Primary IDE connector........80GB Maxtor ATA/133 HDD Secondary IDE connector.. CD/RW with DVD Drive...

Hi, I know there is backup software that allows incremental and differential backups so that it isn't always necessary to backup everything even if only some data were added or changed. The problem is that in my case there is also a lot of re-structuring going on with my data, i.e. data move from...

hi all, We are moving old server to new server. I am using robocopy command to transfer data from old server to new server. But its taking long time to copy all data (42GB took 9 hours). I am copying over the network by mapping old machine share to new machine. Is there better command or...

Hi: We have a 2 steps project. The current situation is no in house backup for 6 servers (windows: a fileserver cluster, and Exchange Cluster a Sharepoint and an SQL one). The customer is buying a new MSL6060 library and plans to connect it directly by FC to a backup server as stage 1, and at...

At home I have a Linux desktop and a headless Linux fileserver with a software RAID 5 array (see URL:http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage/msg/f8479484a5254f5d for details). A few days ago the UPS battery conked out. Besides the battery alarm ringing every ten seconds...

I am looking for the cheapest backup software solution for Windows networks that meets these criteria: - Uses tape libraries that run AIT2, AIT3, LTO2, and LTO3 drives, specifically ADIC Scalar 100 and Overland Neo 4100 (yes, I know the latter doesn't support AIT) - Works flawlessly over a SAN -...

Hello, We have a storage system which is a RAID5 with 8 disks and around 3 TB netto, connected via 2x fibre channel to a fibre channel switch and from there with two servers. The servers run Linux, one is an 8 processor 64b machine mostly for number crunching, the other 2 processor 32b mostly...