Every transition to/from Daylight savings time results in a 1 hour discrepancy between file time stamps on FAT32 volumes and NTFS volumes. Any way to auto-correct so that both are handled in the same fashion?

We're needing to get specs on a storage solution with the following attributes: 1) Costs between $50k and $200k 2) Can store 30 terabytes with a single, unified namespace 3) Doesn't have to be blazing fast. We've only discussed RAID solutions internally so far, but I suspect they might find a...

"I can teach anyone how to get what they want out of life. The problem is I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want." -- Mark Twain "Today people in America can become whatever they want. Trouble is most don't know what they want." -- Earl Nightingale What do you want? Are you sick of the...

hi all, there are 6 LUNs are belonging to a Solaris usage in CX600. for some reasons, I am ready to move these 6 LUNs to new-added W2K3 host for other usage. I've heard from someone, some feature/action like"format" should be selected/performed in Navisphere Manager to make LUNs available...

Hi, I would be interested if anyone can comment on the merits of spanning two raid5 volumes. I have just acquired a server built into a Supermicro SC933T-R760 chassis. The 15 drive bays are populated with 14 Maxline II 250gb sata drives installed for data storage and a WD Raptor for the OS. The...

Hi, I would like to make a two-nodes cluster from standard PCs and i'm looking for a SAN solution to give these nodes a shared storage subsystem. I'm not a hardware guru so please forgive me 8). It should be able to have 8 hot swap bays and the maximum capacity should be 2TB. I'm interested in...

Want to get a clarification if the following is possible. First, understand that it is not possible to have more than one initiators to the robotic control of a tape library. What we want to achieve here is a HA of a backup media server. Can we have 2 hosts, one active and one standby, both...

A Storage Networking User Group (or SNUG) is a grass-roots organization of data storage technology users. SNUGs schedule and conduct face-to-face meetings with other local users to discuss their mutual challenges, exchange information, and interact with technology experts. SNUGs are managed by...

we run networker 6.1.3 on a windows 2k server box...it backs up 8 clients....the other night the server rebooted itself (while the backup was running)...now nsrd.exe will not start up on bootup....i tried starting it up in services and no go... here is daemon log file output "nsrmmdbd: Error on...

Hi Gurus, My system is redhat linux advanced server 2.1 , 4 itanium 64 cpus and emc symmetrix. I have one host bus adapter connected via fibre channel to emc disk array. Although i have two host bus adapter , i can only use one of these cards because emc powerpath has no version for ia64. My...

Hello, I use Veritas Backup Exec for Windows NT and Windows 2000 Version 8.6. When I start the program I receive the following error message: "Could not connect to the Device and Media Service". And of course the backups failed. When I want to see the Job Log, I receive the following...

I used Nero to make a backup of my 18-gig system drive, running WinXP Home. Took 5 DVD-R's. So, if the time ever came when I had to restore the drive from the discs, how would I do it? Thanks!

Can some one point me to a good resource that point out the differences amonng the disk technologies? (or) good brief resources for each of these (ATA,SATA,SAS) Thanks a lot, S

No really, I checked the FAQ on this. I understand the reason for the RAID-5 write penalty. What I don't understand is this: why not just set the block size to (N-1)*blocksize (where N is the number of drives in the array and blocksize is the hardware-level block size). Since you can only write...

Hi, I realize that this is a kind of esoteric question, but I hope that someone here can help. We have some systems with dual-channel QLogic QLA2312 FC HBAs. These are connected to an EMC 32-port FC Switch, which is in turn connected to an EMC Clariion CX700 SAN. Once we get everything...

Hi, does anyone know an affordable solution (no NAS/SAN applicance for more than 2000 EUR/$) to provide storage in a home EtherNet network (e.g. via USB2 and a Router) ? Of course, for security reasons, the system must support RAID. Is there anything available ?

Where can I get a comprehensive reference with all of the StorageTek 9840 FSC error codes? The 9840 Operations manual is very limited in the number of codes it discusses. Also, where can I get an explanation of the full feature set on the 9840? For example, there is a feature named Data Security...

I would like to store video files in i-SCSI based boxes. These boxes have backend SATA drives. My server has i-SCSI HBA and Windows 2003 storage server as operating system. I want to have simultaneous read and writes on these large video files stored on i-SCSI boxes. My problem is simultaneous...

I'm struggling to find any web forums that cover servers and storage and that sort of thing. Long story short we have to change a bunch of kit at work including our main filserver. Ideally we'd like a SAN solution but they cost a small fortune. Assuming a SAN is out of the question, we're...

I have what may turn out to be a very basic question about connecting a Dell server to a DataDirect Networks SAN. I should mention that all of the existing setup was done by someone else, and although I have the DataDirect User's Guide I have no real SAN experience to fall back on. The gist is...