Hello, If I've posted in the wrong place can someone please point me in the right direction? I've got a console connection to a HP Storageworks SAN Switch that I've pulled out of my store to do some testing. I've managed to connect to the switch via the console using both Putty and HyperTerminal....

Is there any Windows backup software that will boot a server on a schedule, and then take control *before Windows boots* to make an image backup of the boot device, prior to handing off control to Windows? We want to bypass any possibility of a file being locked during use while Windows is...

Hi David, I just joined this thread about fireproof safes, so I may be a bit behind... But there are several products on the market for your specific interest. If you want to have a fireproof tape backup I recommend the Schwab DataFORTRESS, a complete fireproof safe that can hook directly up to...

the emc figures on spec.org for their ns700 system at specsfs97_R1.v3 give a fig of 36 k iops per sec at abt 7.1 ms. this is however only with striping and no raid or snapshots with only 350 gb of data on 136 disks of 144 gb. this does not seem like a real life situation in any way. in real life...

I have a 4 user peer to peer network in our office and am seeking a network storage solution. We've tried the Snapserver 1100 and it offers the speed we want but it's OS interferes with a data file we're storing. We also tried a Maxtor 160gb with the Linksys Storage Adapter and it fixed the...

Has anybody tried to do a low-level reformat (and fdisk, I'd assume) of an Iomega Rev drive to NTFS?

i have an Archive Python 06408-xxxx DDS4 Tape drive that came installed in a Dell PowerEdge server and I'm using ArcServe 2000 Advanced for my backup software. My question is what is the largest amount of data (in gbs) that I will be able to backup to a DDS4 tape? Do DDS4 tapes all have a...

Im backing up using the XP provided "Backu"p located in the Accessories directory. I have a 2nd computer on a home LAN and have mapped its harddrive to my primary computer and also set the 2nd comptuer mapped drive to "share" at the root or "C:" level. When I back up using the XP utility, it...

I am unable to achieve much more then 1.2:1 compression ratio on my backups. I run Windows 2000 and use Veritas Backup Exec 9.1 and a mixture of Compaq 50/100 and Sony SDX2-50C 50/100 tapes. I have tried compression settings of "hardware first, then software" as well as "software only". Any help...

Lets say I have 4 - 200 GB drives on my Win 2003 server (C,D,E,F), I want to combine all 4 of them so I can have a C drive that is 800 GB. I can do NTSF mounts, but then i need to have sub directories, I just want one big volume. I don't want to use any RAID card to create a RAID array at this...

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...

Hey guys/gals, I know very little about SANs but have been asked to find information on the web about which is the better overall switch: The Brocade Silkworm 3900 or the McData 3232? All I can find are marketing blurbs and very little about the technical merits of each device. Which do you...

Hello, I'm new to SANs so please excuse my ignorance. I've been reading about zoning and RSCNs. From what I've read RSCNs are sent to all members of a zone after a change in the port status occurs on a port in that zone. For example, if all servers are in the same zone, and one of them is...

Hi all, Just came across this article: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/10/24/42storinside_1.html http://www.panasas.com/activescaleos.html Sounds like an interesting product. Anybopdy got any comments or experience with this?

Are there any opinions out there about the Qualstar's new S-AIT library? I'm somewhat surprised there is not more discussion about it on this list and on the web in general. The 500 GB native capacity was very appealing for my group, however we're having trouble with bugs in the firmware for the...

any experience with AIT-3 tape ?

Does anyone know of a way to copy one DLT IV to another DLT IV? Sounds like it should be simple but not sure where to start. Any info wuld be great, thanks.

Hi, I have a Shuttle system. I'm looking for an external Raid 1 system using a Firewire connection preferrably. Something simple i.e. two hard drives and the cheaper the better (around £400)! Is there such a thing? I recently started reading about NAS. Although they seem to connect via a Rj45...

Hi all, Can anyone provide or point me to a technical explanation of these terms? I've read a bunch of papers that use these terms, but they don't explain them. Thanks!

Dear all, I'm looking for a SCSI controller to use with my IBM Magstar library. To control my Magstar library you've to use HVD (high voltage differential) SCSI controller, and not more usual LVD. A good one is the Adaptec AHA-2944UW (HVD), but it has a normal PCI (33mhz) connector. In our server...