Hello Our LAMP application is showing I/O latency. I was wondering if we could move to multiple Apache servers, each connected through their own disk controller to a single, shared RAID0 bay? Our hoster recommends that we use a NAS, but I'm concerned about network + NFS latency. Thank you for...

I hope this is not too mundane a question for this group, but I need to upgrade an AIT-3 tape drive with 0209 firmware and obtained from the tape library vendor the firmware file that ends with .GBF. Going to the Sony web site, none of the utilities for Windows appear to take files that end...

I run a small business with two office locations and would like to back-up each server to the other via internet. I understand there are many web companies marketing automatic online backup services; however, I hope to reduce costs by backing up to my own remote systems. Thank you for any help...

The pc froze, on starting up the next day 'windows did not star successfully', then it goes into a rebooting loop , so the blue scree disappears too quickly to read. On trying to start up through 'saf mode' it would stop at 'mup.sys', and reboot agai without entering XP. I went into BIOS and tried...

I run Veritas Backup Exec 9.0 attached to a Compaq MSL5026 Media Library with 2 SDLT 110/220 tape drives. I have a media set created called Monthly which is used for full weekly backups of my servers. My problem is that say I have two tapes, both which have 50gb of space free. The backup starts...

I've seen a lot of switching over from IDE disks to serial ATA disks. In fact, an Intel blade server we want to purchase does not have any choice. The question I have not been able to answer is, "Do they provide the special services that high reliability systems need?" What I mean by that is...

I'm getting a strange result with an Acronis V10 boot disk that I would like help understanding. I have a 68 GB NTFS primary partition that I am copying to an identical drive. The result after copying shows two differences: 1) The space free on the destination drive shows 10GB free, whereas...

Hello, We have just bought Dell MD1000, together with 15 SAS 15K hard disks. This server will be connected to 6 web servers which provide a centralized storage using NFS. This server is important as if it down, other web servers didn't work so I need to consider if which Raid configuration is...

Does anyone have any book, manual, or website recommendations for iSCSI? I'm starting from scratch with iSCSI but have an FC SAN background. Borders and Barnes/Knoble have a few titles that run from $80-$120 that they offered to order for me, but I'd prefer a recommendation from someone that has...

A.Melon wrote in message ... I downloaded Acronis True Image and made a bootable CD as per their program. However, I have no idea if my CD driver is capable of booting the computer. Presumably you mean...

Which RAID controller cards have an onboard piezo or similar speaker that sounds an alarm whenever a drive fails? (drive being member of a redundant array) Mainly I am looking for recommendations for RAID data security rather than server uptime. Ones I know of: HighPoint RocketRaid 1540: don't...

Hi all, I have some questions about the file managerment system on SAN architecutre. Since I want to build a SAN system that all of the servers can read/ write the same disk volumn simultaneously, a file managerment system is needed to control the data access. Is there any good data management...

Before I buy such one I really need to be sure that I can have encryption on this device. I want to use it to store my personal backup at a remote side. Is it possible to do a rsync (with SSH) from my CentOS box to the ReadyNAS box where I store my files on an encrypted partition or alike? Note...

Thanks in advantage for any help and please excuse the cross-posting due to my ignorance about proper group to post to.... I've deleted my partition table. I've recovered this map for starting cylinders: Cyl Side Sec 0 0 1 0 1 1

Hello People... My (recently new) audio workstation...mfg.'d by ADK...came w/ Paragon Drive Backup (8.1)...which I can utilize to backup my entire local drive content (OS/programs/files & folders) to a dedicated recovery capsule...(which I believe is located on a dedicated partition). What I...

Hello! I'm thinking of putting my various CDs, DVDs, digital pictures, backups, etc. on a large array of disks. Performance is secondary to reliability and the software or hardware RAID5 will do. There are two issues, however, which most common RAID5 setups don't seem to address without...

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

Is it possible to disable hardware disk cache? Not the software cache. I can read files with no software cache, opening them without buffering (FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING) but I can't avoid the hardware cache. Is it possible to get the hardware disk cache size? Or even disable it? Thanks a lot.

I an trying to see what you can build with off-the-shelf hardware. I have a dual opteron (248 2.2ghz) cpu with 2gig RAM and 4 drives. The system has 1. A "WDC WD2500JB" IDE drive connected to the on-board controller of a Tyan S2882 mobo (hda) 2. A "WDC WD2500JB" IDE drive connected to a Promise...

Is there anyway that I can turn an older (ATHLON 1.4, 512 MB, 80 GB HD) into something like a Snap! server , network attached storage (NAS) ???? I have just outgrown the Snap! server, which worked perfectly. I just need it to share out files on the LAN and be able to set users and permissions from...