I start with way of debugging. So can someone suggest how to debug slow performance issue in NetApp filer. I mean what all I should check before coming to any conclusion. During slow performance I found deffered back-to-back-copy in "sysstat" output and around 20% full stripe write in...

I'm looking for a vendor who can do an installation on an ADIC i2000 in Kansas City, MO, and who knows Comvault under Windows. Unlike ADIC, which would just install the physical library, I need a vendor who can shrink wrap both the hardware install and do initial software integration and test. ...

Hi, When I back data up from an EMC Centera system, is the data on tape also optimized using the content addressing scheme? Dvy

i have a multimedia card is using in my nokia handphone. i cant edit any file in my multimedia card now when i put into card reader, it prompt me a error that "The disk is write-protected Remove the write-protection or use another disk" . anyone help, thanks. _________________ Proactiv Solution ...

I believe that if a aggregate has more than one raid group then data writing will be accross all the raid group in horizontal fashion. So if have bigger aggregate then better throughput due to more spindles. First any comment on this. Whether I am right or not ? If I check disk utilizations...

Does any vendor sell software for Windows that would make a RAID 1 mirror from two SMB NAS devices on the back end? Performance on NAS has gotten so good with gigabit ethernet that there is little reason to prefer SANs for most applications. What I would like to remove from the equation is...

Hi, I am running a CentOS 4 box with 4 terabytes of data on it. It houses most of my users' data, so it is constantly being used. I'm running the Networker 7.3.2 client on the box, as well. I have established a seperate backup network successfully - all data is backed up over this secondary...

Its related to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager version 5.2.2.0 can anybody describe the difference between checkin and lable of the tape volume in IBM Tivoli Storage manager.

Hello, I'm looking into various ILM products such as those from Kazeon, EMC, NeoPath, etc. One question that comes up is how these products behave when a client does a full-text search against a volume that contains data that's been migrated away. From what I understand, a file access causes...

Hi, What formats are the full and incremental dumps from a NetApp OnTAP system in? As in, is the backup data in some proprietary NetApp format? Also, what is the difference between NDMP and SnapMirror? Dvy

Start with DataOnatp 7G aggregate comes in picture so now raid groups are part of aggregate instead of volume if we configure aggregate. Earlier with traditional volume we reserve some percentage of space out of the volume for snapshot and this is same case with flex volume also. But aggregate also...

Hello! One of the responsibilites in my new job is, to take care of the backup of our Solaris servers. We're using LTO 1 tapes to hold the backup. When I now had a look at the Netbackup software, I saw that some of our tapes are quite old (from 2003) and have been mounted up to 500 times.

Over last couple of years the certain types of data is exploding in our enterprise (probably true for others too). These include source code, binary images (and many many variations of those), all kinds of documents (word, excel), wikis etc. These are kept like regular files (available via NAS)...

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Hello, We are thinking to evaluate EMC recover point technoligies which EMC acquired recently. Has anybody using or evaluated this product?. Any feedback on this would be appreciated. Thanks ~Harish

Hello, I have 3 offers for storage systems for primary location and 2 colocations. HP offer: EVA 6000 (15x300GB/10k, 15x500GB FATA) - primary 2x MSA 1500 (15x 500GB SATA) - colocation

Anyone can describe the impact on Netapp filer if primary DNS server goes down. Configuration is as follows :- In "/etc/resolv.conf" file more than one DNS servers are mentioned. Primarily filer is bound with NIS as nis is first entry in "/etc/ nsswitch.conf" file and dns is second. In "/etc/hosts"...

Hello, I have an old EMC DS-16B and i want to reset the configuration to have a default password in order to reconfigure it ? I have tried several times the from panel "Reset to Default" but the admin password does seems to be set to the default value as defined in the documentation. Any idea ?

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 toying with a scenario where I want to backup several terabytes daily in a NetWorker enviornment. Some facts, Clients: several hundred of many different OSes Data volume: about 20 TB needs to backed up during a lot less than 10 hours, I'll probably aim for 5 hours. That's 4 TB/hour or approx...