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We’re approaching the final quarter of 2011: What are some of your IT department’s goals to finish out the year? What are some of the things you are implementing to position yourself for 2012? Whether it’s updating your system documentation or updating your IT staff’s certifications, we want to know how the rest of your [...]
One of ITKnowledgeExchange’s bloggers is working on a series about customer service in the enterprise, and how it can be improved. From the IT side, do you have any experiences or suggestions for improving how companies do customer service? We’ll take horror stories as well! Help a fellow IT Knowledge Exchanger out and we’ll give [...]
This week’s free IT book is an essential addition to the developer’s library. If you want to master the powerful Python Standard Library through real code examples, this is the prize for you. Simply answer one of five questions and post the link to your answer in the discussion section below. Good luck! Installation error [...]
I have seen some Storage High-End disk subsystems supporting over 60 thousands LUNs and there are some others companies offering a high-end product varying the maximum number of LUN between 2048 and 4096. Can we assume how high is the number of LUN it is better the High-End Storage product? In terms of capacity & [...]
OK guys, I have the following question… I was trying to perform a full sys backup at a remote system to tape but the person at the location isn’t familiar with the process or is quite afraid of messing up with the command. So, I decided to do partial backups of the system and this [...]
HP announced its Cloud Services program in beta and we wanted to know initial reactions. Have you registered for the beta? Share your initial thoughts, whether or not you have, and we’ll return to this in the next phase of HP’s cloud services. Share your thoughts and we’ll share 50 Knowledge Points!
When we do a D/R recovery from our stand alone 820 to a an LPAR on 870 we get an error that the OS keys is invalid. Have been told that when we load the LPA there is a step that will eliminate this issues. Does any know hat it is?
The team at Net Objectives (including CEO Alan Shalloway) has compiled the essential skills for the Agile developer. To get this resource and guide to better programming and design, simply answer one of five questions and paste the link to your answer in the discussion section below. Ultrium 4, data size in tape? Entire System [...]
We are using LTO4 ultrium tape for backups in our server{V5R4}. System Total Storage – 12TB Present ASP – 60% i.e.,{More than 6 TB} For Entire System backup - Two Ultrium 4 tapes used. {which has the size of 1.6Tb each for compressed data = total 3.2Tb} Question : Since the ASP is 60% we can predict [...]
We have taken entire system backup using brms first time in our server{V5R4} which took 12 hrs to complete {ASP 70%} with some object locks.My question is how to reduce the time window using brms for entire system backup? which helps us to release the system to users early… We scheduled the backup through : GO BRMS option [...]
I know there is software raid and hardware raid. Do you program them the same way? As well do the controller’s have to match drives such as SATA or SCSI? Please forgive this basic question I am new at this stuff.
While documentation doesn’t necessarily make the world go ’round, it certainly keeps it spinning neatly on its axis when trouble arises. If you’re providing a product or service, you should be providing your customers with accurate information that allows them to effectively use and maintain that product, which translates into accurate and thorough documentation. So [...]
I’ve placed an old hard drive in a USB external enclosure to rtrieve files. When I try to access the drive I get a message that the drive has not been initalized. How can I accomplish initializing the drive?
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Every season has its share of weather threats, and we want to know how you prepare for them. The east coast is gearing up for Hurricane Irene’s arrival, and we were wondering what steps you were taking (if any) to make sure your data center doesn’t see much (or any) downtime. What unique conditions do [...]
we are unable to take system state backup on windows server 2003 SP2. Details: Event Log: ———————– Event ID: 8019 - Event Type: Error Event Source: NTBackup Event Category: None Event ID: 8019 User: N/A Computer: ABC Description: End Operation: Warnings or errors were encountered. Consult the backup report for more details. For more information, [...]
HP’s decision to discontinue the TouchPad (and its subsequent steal of a price) has been all the buzz the past couple days. Did you bite at the alluring $99 price tag? Tell us what went into your decision, or if you couldn’t care less about the TouchPad. Do you think hackers are about to have [...]
I had a situation recently where a laptop harddrive died completely. We installed a new drive and reimaged it, but the drivers were missing off the standard os image, and I had to re-install the drivers for the onboard devices. (Biometric security etc) I had problems getting the drivers for the laptop, (1 year old) [...]
Hello, We have a 3573 L2U drive which we are using as a standalone tape drive. Our backup jobs started running nearly twice longer than our normal run time last week. IBM SSR replaced the drive, cable and terminator. However, still after replacing, backup still ran long. Do you have any idea what is causind [...]





