Is there a decent Windows based backup program that allows clients to push their backups to a central server using an agent technolgy rather than having the central server contact the distributed agents and pull the data? The problem with the pull model is that you often end up having a...

I'm new to SATA and would like to understand what are the different standards for cables. As I understand it the SATA standard provides for 1.5 Gbps and 3.0 Gbps interfaces. Questions a 1) Does each interface require a different type of cable? 2) If you use a SATA 1.5 Gbps cable on a...

Does anyone make a low cost software RAID-1 solution for Windows XP? This is of course included in Windows 2000 and 2003 server as part of the Disk Management tools. I'm aware of Veritas StorageFoundation, which is both high end and expensive. -- Will westes AT earthbroadcast.com

How do you configure a Qlogic 2200F to send the start unit command to attached hard drives? We are exposing a SCSI disk to the QLogic through a fibre channel bridge, and the drive is not starting up after insertion. The Windows 2000 host computer needs to boot this disk, so I need to find a way...

Does anyone know if Backup Exec Remote Agent 10.0 uses Active Directory instead of NetBIOS to locate machines in a domain? Backup Exec 9.1 does not use Active Directory, and it requires you to turn on NetBIOS over TCP for every computer you want to back up on the network. -- Will Internet: westes...

To my surprise, it looks like the Backup Exec 9.1 Remote Agent requires you to enable NetBIOS over TCP in order to work. It apparently uses NetBIOS discovery to enumerate devices on the network, and equally disturbing is that there is not TCP agent in any true sense. It is using file sharing...

What would cause my master netbackup media server to produce this error "Could not write keepalive to Comm_Sock"? My netbackup master is a windows 2000 system which connects fine to all other servers execpt one which is running Windows NT 4 netbackup client. It's worked before but just stopped and...

Hi. Migrating an older symm to DMX, since R1/R2 conversion needs a bin file change in the old symm, we are using existing SRDF relationship to migrate data from DMX to old Symm. Now the question is, there are a few devices that are visible to a HP-UX host that don't have SRDF relationship (not...

Hi everyone, Quick question: Given that it is now possible to have software-based RAID arrays which are able to be grown using mdadm on Linux, what advantage, if any, does LVM actually provide? And yes, I am aware that the filesystem does not grow with mdadm's --grow command, but tools like...

Hi all, I am looking for a decentralized filesystem solution for non-enterprise use (lightweight) to replace several rsync-mirrored, software-based RAID-5 storage servers. I don't know if there's any actual solution out there which meets my fantasy, but here is some criteria that would be...

I have a few questions and I have been googling for a while. You mentioned that it is a felony to erase a hard disk wrong. Can you explain further? Where did you get this information from? Also you mentioned approved software? Does the DOD actually have a list? For instance if I were to...

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Hi there, I want to install a tape changer (LIBRA 8/3 from DILOG) on my Solaris 9 Box. This changer has to SCSI IDs (one for changer, one for tape) which are well recognized by probe-scsi. After boot -r the tape device ist /dev/rmt/0, but I can`t find any changer device

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...

Can someone explain to me, Why need to have 8 trays on EVA to archive redundancy. And what's the redundancy we talking abotu here ? thanks wanni

Hi all, We want to run Solaris UFS and SAMFS on Appletalk. What's the options of the middle-layer out there ? thanks & cheers, wanni

Hello together, we have here an problem with Netbackup on Sun Solaris. We want backup an Oracle DB, with 2 Streams, the first Stream works correctly an come back with successfuly message, the second Stream come with error: 03:06:56.756 16 writeToServer: ERR - send() to server on socket failed:...

For those of us who have been eagerly awaiting MP4 for NetBackup 6.0, it was released yesterday. I've downloaded it from he ftp://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_Server Anybody that downloads it should reply to this thread to say whether or not it fixed their...