Hi group I have been recommended by some folk on alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt to visit here with this question because there are some real experts here. So here is the original question "Can someone explain why a Compaq HDD shows up in Windows (my computer) and the bios on my Caompaq Ipaq...

Howdy, I would like to use Networker to archive and groom a select subset of a directory containing ~600k files (800 GB) without having to break the archive up into several thousand seperate jobs, or having to archive the entire thing and manually groom the files. Looked into writing a...

I'm interested in hearing about any experiences with doing "Active" Raid 5 Volume expansions, however, with a slight twist. I'd like to take 4 x 36.4 gb drives that are apart of an existing logical drive in an Array and one-by-one swap out the 36.4gb disks with larger capacity 146gb drives. The...

Hiya. I am looking for some software that will back up the files on my Windows XP computer to DVD. I want the DVD to be able to be read on any other computer without special software. This veritas i have seems to need veritas to be installed on the "future" machine. I just want the files in...

Question to the group. I've heard Apple Xserve doesn't have many backup options. True?? Thanks in advance Andy

Is anyone out there doing replication (synchronous) over CWDM connections? I'd love to hear how, any thoughts/pointers you might have. I'm looking to set up synchronous replication between two HDS boxes ( using Truecopy), over a distance of around 100km, using a CWDM backbone with 8 lambdas, each...

Hello, I have some problem in re configurating the Volume of the mentioned RAID solution after OS crash. Maybe there is someone who has the same hardware and can help me. The OS is FreeBSD und I need information about the config-file that is gone. Thanks in advance Boris

When a Dart Filesystem is built, does it automatically allocate 10% of space for overhead? We have been looking at our various filesystems provided over a Celerra and see a discrepancy between what we have recorded is there in files and what the df says is there. We know the raw is around 6.1 Tb...

When a Dart Filesystem is built, does it automatically allocate 10% of space for overhead? We have been looking at our various filesystems provided over a Celerra and see a discrepancy between what we have recorded is there in files and what the df says is there. We know the raw is around 6.1 Tb...

Hi, Please forgive my ignorace. I am looking for documents or web site that allows us to learn the following : 1) how to calculate performace of a backup solution 2) how to design a good backup solution using the correct tape drives ( ie: LTO, LTO2, or SDLT) 3) Design to use either a LanLess/SAN...

I've narrowed down my search for a SATA drive to the following: (80GB, 7200rpm, 8MB cache serial-ATA) Western Digital WD800JD Samsung SP0812C Seagate ST380023AS Anyone recommend against a certain brand? I couldn't care about a 1% performance increase/decrease, just reliability for my data. ...

Below is a link to a detailed presentation that thoroughly covers the current state of the storage industy. The presentation was generated/delivered by the CIT Group. Here is a quick list of topics covered: - Storage Technologies - Storage Pricing - Storage Networking - Storage Vendor Trends

What is the best filesystem for sharing data between Windows and Unix, that supports multi-tiered storage (i.e., different types of disk can be assigned to files according to policy. It must support a global namespace where files can be moved from one fileserver or device without affecting the...

Hi all, looking for some net wisdom: For my private data (approx 100GB growth expected 20- 50 GB/year) I would like to use a used industry grade solution (HW RAID, independent microkernel os, hot swap, no windows) SAN like the Dell PowerVault 6XX or equivalent to run silently in the cellar and...

I need a solution for a SAN with a shared LUN. By this I mean 10 or so servers accessing the same LUN (read-only). One server would have read/write access. The OS is Windows 2000 and the application is a web farm. We currently have about 200GB on each server (synchronized) but we're quickly...

hello: I found that when the block size if 2M bytes, Windows will send SCSI request whose data lenth field is 2262144 bytes , which can work very well in some situations. What decide the data length of the SCSI reqeusts? Can i specify it? thank you for your help?

Hi, This question may be in a FAQ, and if so, please point me to it... We're considering the possibility of configuring some servers (a mix of Sun and Wintel) off of a SAN (EMC) for a new system. I kind of understand the potential positives, e.g., having images stored in a central place, but my...

In stock, Motivated to sell In great condition fully functional: ADIC Scalar AIT 220 PN# 99-0221-01 Interface Type SCSI Manufacturer Part Number 99-0221-01 Storage Type Tape Drive Library Tape Type AIT

Hi everyone, I'm preparing to put together a system geared towards editing large files in Photoshop as well other graphic-based functions. I was hoping for some input on the potential build which includes: Processors: Dual AMD Opteron Model 146, 1MB L2 Cache 64-bit Processors Motherboard:

Hi all I am trying to restore a single file over our SAN to a win2k server using TSM. This server has two fibre direct connections to a fastt200. The file is 440Gb, the volume presented to the win2k server is 536Gb (RAID5). I've tried various segment sizes with FASTT storage manager and various...