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NEXSAN ATABOY vs Promise Ulta by
ron
I'm in the market for about 2TB of direct attached storage. The
storage will be used for back-up only. The plan is to back-up to
disk, then to tape.
I am not interested in enterprise class solutions and the data is not
mission critical. I am looking at 2 products:
Nexsan ATA Boy
Promise...
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Rules of the Road for Fibre Channel Interop by
news.directlink.net
Being relatively new to fibre channel, I need to gain more awareness of what
works and what to expect. Maybe some gurus here on usenet can help. I
discovered that my Sun X6730A (FC100/S) card will not correctly communicate
with a Clariion FC5700 DPER. I don't understand why. Doesn't everyone...
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February 26th 04 09:17 PM
by Andy
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are SDLT tapes flaky? 4 of 10 of our tapes are defective by
Erick
I have a Quantum SDLT320 drive on a linux host for which we've bought: 5
Quantum SDLT-I tapes and 5 HP SDLT-I tapes. I am alarmed that two of each
brand are defective.
Symptoms are twofold:
1 tape took tar files up to (I presume) capacity without error, but "tar
tvf" of those files failed.
3 tapes...
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February 26th 04 10:25 PM
by Erick
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Upgrading a Snap Appliance NAS 4000 Series with new Hard Drives? by
Scott Townsend
Is it possible to Upgrade the SnapServer 4000 Series??
Mine Currently has 4 30gb drives in it and I wanted to put in 4 250gb
drives.
SnapAppliance said that the OS does not Support more then 120gb...
Seems kind of strange.
I've read on the ned how to upgrade the 1000 series. Has anyone...
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Netbackup very slow by
Mark Gary
I would like to gauge opinion on the problems that have developed with
our Netbackup system.
Since about August, last year, Our Netbackup system has gone from
very good, to almost a to a crawl.
The setup is as follows:-
1 Master/Media server
2 Media servers
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February 28th 04 07:21 AM
by san4me
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Which storage conference to attend by
Charles Morrall
I've been given approval by my manager to attend one conference of my
chosing. I don't really want to attend any free or low-cost conferences if
that means being forced to listen to drivel from various vendors while they
wallow in their own percieved greatness. I of course expect some...
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Looking for NetApps Engineer by
Nigel Lawrence
Hi all,
I hope that this posting does not conflict with the acceptable use
policy of this group - I tried looking for the FAQ or policies, but my
news server does not keep all messages, and i could not find one. Anyhow.
We are a recruitment company based in London and have been asked to
find a...
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Netapp factory settings by
Paul
For the life of me, I can't remember what the command is to revert a netapp
filer to factory settings. I think it's a diag level (priv set diag)
command.
Anyone here know?
TIA,
--paul
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B&R Beginner question by
[email protected]
Hi all,
I would like to know a basic thing concerning the Backup and Restore
client of Legato Networker. If I have an application (solaris pkg
archive) that I install, should I indicate the B&R client to backup
the .tar archive and the customized configuration file, or should I
indicate all the...
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which approach to maximise speed with a SAN? by
tony barnwell
Hello,
I had a loong list of technical questions over the phone today for a
new job.
From How do you get the return code from a shellscript (easy - echo
$?) to Which approach to maximise speed with a SAN? I dunno, but as I
have to meet these guys for a face to face interview on Tues it might
be an...
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Sun Storage Passes The Toughest Test: The Real World by
Krishna Tyner
According to new benchmark tests by the nonprofit Storage
Performance Council, Sun StorEdge entry-level and midrange
systems leave the competition in the dust, with price/performance
far ahead of IBM and others.
See the...
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February 29th 04 05:46 PM
by Andy
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Opinons on Dell/EMC CX 500 by
Andrew
Hi I am thinking of buying a Dell/EMC CX500 SAN for my orginazation. I was
thinking of installing about 30 servers on it eventually including our
Windows 2003 DC's our Exchange Server, our Document Management System and
several SQL servers and I was wondering if anyone had any opinions on the...
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February 29th 04 06:31 PM
by Andrew
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NetApp Data Ontap 6.5 CIFS security issue by
Deadgame
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...
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DWDM w/FCP->IP converters. by
Rodrick Brown
We are starting to plan out our DWDM core, one of the major apps driving
this will be our HDS 9980 and our net design group is thinking about using
FCP-IP converters with 10GigabitE backbone for our brocade switches which
will be located at different datacenters, one of the issues they brough...
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General [Integrated] SATA & RAID Query by
Ron
Greetings. Having found no existing threads on this issue...
I understand RAID. I have used several arrays over the last few years; on
PCI and integrated. When I built this system, I began with a single SATA
drive, but I've since added a second identical drive and mirrored them.
(Would've...
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April 1st 04 08:58 AM
by Ron
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JNI (AMCC) FC adapters misbehaving by
Sebastian Schoenwetter
Hi Guys,
I was wondering if any of you guys are using JNI FC6460 adapters on
Solaris connected to HP XP 512 or HDS storage devices. Preferable
using Brocade 2800 / 3800 fabric switches and Veritax VxVM and DMP.
We have a long history of trouble with JNI cards and would like to
compare our...
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CompactFlash: PIO Timings vs. MemoryCycle Timings by
Tim Clacy
When using CompactFlash in memory mapped mode (CommonMemory space), where
are you supposed to get the memory cycle timings from? There don't appear to
be 'MemoryCycle' timings, as there are PIO timings, either in the device
identification or Card Information Structure.
The trouble is that although...
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Date for LTO 3? by
Steve Cousins
Does anyone know when the LTO 3 drives are supposed to come out? I've
searched IBM/HP/Seagate web sites to no avail.
Thanks,
Steve
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Raid 1 or Raid 5 ? by
Steve
Malc - I think your last comment makes most sense... Buy 2 drives.. do
raid 10 and keep the spare ready for action even if not hot spared.
Thanks for everything ! Any thanks to all those who were selfless
enough to take the time to help me out.
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:57:22 -0800, Malcolm Weir...
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April 1st 04 07:46 PM
by jlsue
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