Hello there, I was wondering if somebody could provide me with some guidance in preparing an acceptance document for the installation of a Fiber Channel SAN storage based on an IBM DS4300. This will help me ensure that the installation is fully implemented and all the features are enables or...

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Hi, I have a Shuttle system. I'm looking for an external Raid 1 system using a Firewire connection preferrably. Something simple i.e. two hard drives and the cheaper the better (around £400)! Is there such a thing? I recently started reading about NAS. Although they seem to connect via a Rj45...

In article , Peter wrote: This is probably an FAQ... Since 1996 I have been using Seagate Backup Exec, version 6.something. It's rubbish really but worked OK for NT4. The worst part of it is lousy error recovery and in...

Other than second-site replication how do people with multi-TB of data do disaster planning these days ? Do poeple just buy pairs of SAN/NAS boxes ? I'd want three, actually. Sh*t happens. I managed datacenters when disks went from 25MB to maybe 800MB and 9 track tapes were good enough for...

ISTR that there was an effort to standardize backup saveset formats so that the major backup products could interoperate to some degree. Did anything come of this? -- a d y k e s @ p a n i x . c o m Don't blame me. I voted for Gore.

How does the latest SATA disk and controller gear stack up against the best SCSI controller and disks these days ? -- a d y k e s @ p a n i x . c o m

In article , Markus Weiss wrote: Hi all, maybe someone can give me a hint: Recently I bought a used DLT-4000, mounted it in an external SCSI-case. It was working fine for about 4 hours. Did a lot of tests and then wrote a tape with about...

What disk manufacturers still have essentially end-to-end fabrication lines? Are there any companies we never hear the names of that make HDA assemblies for others? -- a d y k e s @ p a n i x . c o m Don't blame me. I voted for Gore. A Proud signature since 2001

In article , Peter wrote: Hi, I've done the usual google searches but suprisingly there is very little in this size range.... Peter.

I have a crack at a canabalized AS/400 and there are two IBM-badged DLT drives on it. Is there any reasony why these shouldn't work on a windows or linux system as long as I have a SCSI card with the matching cable interfaces on it ? -- Al Dykes -----------

I have a new Dell server with hardware raid and w2k. When it boots it goes thru the bios to see the two 80G disks as one mirror set. I want to put a cheap IDE disk in this machine and use Ghost to do quick image backups prior to risky acts, like installing service packs. Is there any reason why...

I've used DLT tapes for years. Today I'm working up a quote for a client business that had no investemnt in tape and the server I'm looking at a vendor that offers LTO tape drives. I assume they're OK but does anyone have any war stories ? The business will only use a couple of dozen tapes a...

Hi, We have recently purchased an IBM DS300 for use on our network and have managed to set it up so it is visible from one server which is what we wanted but we have got a problem. The server is a Windows 2000 server and I am connecting using Micrsoft ISCSI Initiator to connect to the...

Hey - I figured this was the perfect place for my question. I'm in the process of studying up for the SNCP FC-Level 2 exam. I know when I looked into this about a year ago Tom Clarks first book was the one to read. Is that still true ? I'm just a little nervous and want to make sure...

Does anyone have experience with enduser managed storage? Specifically, is it worth it to set up point-in-time replicas and let endusers access those replicas to restore files they might have corrupted or inadvertently deleted rather than calling the storage team to do it for them. Is there a...

Has anyone experienced performance degradation when backing up large volumes of files from a NAS array? I am researching complaints that backing up large volumes of small files (128k)results in a noticeable performance drop. One suggested solution was to segregate small files and back them up over...

Hi, I'm researching a magazine article on poor service by storage vendors. I will be meeting with the major storage vendors--EMC, IBM, HP, Dell, etc--in the next week or so and would like to confront them with incidences (anonymous) of poor service and get them to explain what happened. If you...

Has anyone had any experience with storage management tools like CA, Tivoli, Creek Path or AppIQ. We're considering one of these for our multi-vendor SAN. The vendors all promise they can do everything, including provisioning, and they are simple to use and deploy. The demos look nice but I'm...

I'm looking to speak with someone who has been through a major change of their primary storage vendor. How did you do it? How did you move your data? Why did you do it? Was it worth the hassle? Thanks, Alan