Hi All, I have a question about USB mass storage, such as flash pendrive. Is OS going to scan its all logical blocks after detecting the pendrive or just to scan the FAT table in the meantime?

We are using the Veritas Backupexec software for LAN tape backup. We would like to perform backups to a network storage device. Can anyone recommend a device for purchase or should we make our own storage device? Jim J

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I put a WD1200 7200rpm in a USB external case in a home office and I would like to leave it on 24/7 to backup up 4 PCs over LAN. (If I have to remember to turn it on each day, I wont get consistent backups) The case has no fan but good space around it and vents for convection air flow. Nothing sits...

I was using the Backup utility that comes with XP and is in the Systems Utilities folder. I installed Norton Ghost backup to try and the Windows backup utility is now not in the menu. I un-installed Ghost and the Windows backup utility is still not in the menu. How can I get the Windows Backup...

Hi - I upgraded the tape drive an LTO1 (Overland) to an HP LTO2 tape drive. I was told that I would be able to see the LTO1 tapes on the drive. I inserted the LTO1 tape and catologed it but the catalog failed. Is there something I need to do? The tapes are 2 years old so they are no longer on...

I am trying to figure out how to expire savesets in Legato networker. I am reading the Admin guide and see that it says to change the expiration of a saveset by using the -e option of the save command. I look at the save command and see the options I think I need. The -e with the date I want to...

Does anyone have any experience using HP's PERSIST product for lifecycle management? Is it incorporated into RISS? I would like to compare it to other ILM products like AvalonIDM, etc.

(google news would not let me reply directly, so this will probably appear as a new thread) I've been looking at the possibility of putting some NFS servers "over" a SAN, providing a "home grown" NAS. This would be one solution that'll meet our NFS requirements, as we can use Linux (or...

We use Legato in our SAN Environment, HP Tape Library Borcade Switches EMA12000 and EVA5000 Storage. Our problem is that the tape media will be marked full, but they arent´t really full.

I have tried to install the New SuseLinuxEntepriseDesktop on my desktop. But i forgot to unplug my external HD. So the default installation of linux suggest to use an existing HDD with a windows partition on it. I thought that it was the internal HD (Maxtor 120Gb with a NTFS partition with Windows...

Hi! I have this strange issue... My ASP page needs to list the content of specific Netapp folder; the code is very simple: set fso = createobject("scripting.filesystemobject") set folder = fso.GetFolder("\\io\Projekte") for each fldr in folder.subfolders wscript.echo "li" & fldr.name next

I just downloaded the simulator but the docs are bad and don't say anything about the initial login account. Thanx if you can help.

As a home user I am in need of a budget solution. As a RAID newbie I'm in need of a little bit of advice. The background - I need to get a lot of data onto a lot of drives as quickly as possible, and it has to be done via 100Mbps ethernet. The ethernet is my current bottleneck and I intend to...

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Im running Ghost 9 and it wont do incrementals....only baseline backups. This happens each day when I backup. There is not much changed on the drive...sometimes nothing. And there is no defrag occuring on the disk and will always just do a complete baseline backup. The only Symantec Knowledge...

We have a couple of Qualstar TLS-6460 tape libraries available. Here are the details: Qty. 2 Qualstar TLS-6460 including (part # QST-900145): -Qty. 2 x SDLT220 LVD tape drives (part # 500903-10-9) -60 media slots -Fibre channel option (part # 501420-01-2) -GBIC optical multi-mode (part #...

Hi I want a disk (SCSI) which is bad, (ie, read() (disk driver) on that disk should retry sufficient times before returning error). Under what conditions disk driver retries on a bad disk. Is it bad block read or something else ? How to create such a condition in a good disk ? ie, how to make a...

I've been researching NAS options for an office environment comprised of about 15 users and a mix of desktop and server operating systems. So far, I've looked at the following: -Dell, IBM and HP offerings (an "appliance" solution based on a 64-bit CPU, 2GB RAM, and Windows Storage Server 2003...

Has anyone seen this? we are new to network appliance, our company has just decided to start getting these units instead of other SAN/NAS solutions that would have a windows kernel rather than unix. It started when one of our developers was alerted to errors in one of their applications. This...