Anyone using Veritas BMR (Bare Metal Restore) or other imaging for Disaster Recovery?
I am looking for feedback on Veritas Bare Metal Restore as a Disaster Recovery upgrade to my current Veritas NetBackup tape library. I understand that the BMR Server does not run on Windows. I could run this on an RS/6000 (AIX) but am concerned about the setup time in a DR situation.

Answer Question   |  November 10, 2004  2:34 PM
Backup, Backup & recovery

Problems backing up NetWare servers with ArcServe
A SearchStorage.com reader asks: I have a HP MSA1000 SAN with 4 NetWare servers attached and a HP MSL5026S2 Tape library (SDLT). I get really good speeds from the server running ArcServe, but whenever I try to use this server to backup the other attached NetWare servers, it runs as bad, if not worse than [...]

Answer Question   |  August 13, 2008  11:45 AM
ArcServe, Backup & recovery, HP MSA1000, Netware, SAN, Tape libraries

Best IDE for building JSP pages
This is just for educational purposes. I want to build some JSP pages for a university project, and I’m looking for a J2EE IDE (better if free), but I’m, not sure which is best or easiest to use. I have taken a look to Net Beans 3.6 and I like it, but it’s too heavy [...]

Answer Question   |  November 9, 2004  2:04 PM
BEA Systems, BEA WebLogic, C, Computer Associates, HTML, IBM, IBM WebSphere, J2EE, Java, JavaScript, JBoss, JSP, Servers, Sun, Sun ONE Application Server, Web development tools, WebSphere Studio

How to generate a listing of security information of Win 2003 server folders
Does somebody know if there is a way to query the Directory database to obtain a listing that includes security and other settings (shares, permissions, etc) of all folders and subfolders of a machine running Win 2003 Server ? Any help or comment will be appreciated.

Answer Question   |  January 11, 2005  12:45 PM
Auditing, Data center operations, DataCenter, FAT and NTFS, Hardware, Help Desk, Operating system platforms, Performance/Tuning, Policies, Registry, Remote management, Servers, Space/structure, Storage, Tech support, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 2000 Server, Windows client administration and maintenance, Windows Server 2003

How to Obtain security information of Win 2003 server folders
Does somebody know if there is a way to query the Directory database to obtain a listing that includes security and other settings (shares, permissions, etc) of all folders and subfolders of a machine running Win 2003 Server ? Any help or comment will be appreciated.

Answer Question   |  November 9, 2004  12:41 PM
Auditing, Data center operations, DataCenter, FAT and NTFS, Hardware, Help Desk, Operating system platforms, Performance/Tuning, Policies, Registry, Remote management, Servers, Space/structure, Storage, Tech support, Windows, Windows 2000 desktop, Windows 2000 Server, Windows client administration and maintenance, Windows Server 2003

Best rules of thumb?
What are five best rules of thumb when reviewing output from system monitors for preventing future problems. The system monitors could be any SMF/RMF MICS TSO/MON MXG OMEGAMON system monitor type report for reporting on the mainframe. Example might be 1. sustained CPU utilization over 85% 2. Long I/O ques 3. large variation in on-line [...]

Answer Question   |  August 6, 2009  5:39 PM
Availability, Capacity planning, EMC, Hardware, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, Integration with other platforms, Mainframe, Storage products and equipment, Tech support, Third-party services, Vendor support

Alternative to EMC VisualSRM?
Could you kindly advise a competitive product against EMC VisualSRM Suite. I need to source for an alternative solution.

Answer Question   |  October 31, 2010  9:20 AM
EMC, Storage, Storage products and equipment

Restoring Source Files on the iSeries
We are moving to a new i5/iSeries machine. We will be doing a full backup, then a restore, then a SAVCHGOBJ. However, in the past, when we’ve done a restore of a source file, the existing members get renamed (SRCMBR00001) and the members from the restore get put in correctly. Does anybody know the exact [...]

Answer Question   |  March 9, 2005  8:30 AM
Backup & recovery, i5, Installation, iSeries, OS/400, RPG, Server consolidation, tips and tricks, Tools

Data Conversion on IBM AS/400
Hi, We’re converting some old master files in to new format files. These master files have around 58 million records each. We wrote COBOL programs to convert the format and write to the new files. In order to speed up the process we are splitting the each master file into 20 parts(i.e., 20 files and [...]

Answer Question   |  October 27, 2004  2:00 AM
COBOL, Data analysis, DataCenter, Development, Disaster recovery software, ERP, Financial services applications, Help Desk, Incident response, Lifecycle development, Manufacturing applications, Office Applications, Programming Languages, RPG, Special-purpose software, SQL, Storage, SunGard Data Systems, Systems Union Group, Tech support, Transaction Systems Architects

Large-scale Veritas NetBackup Question
My company is currently merging and we are in need of several NetBackup gurus, as the organizational merger will result in an incrase of 2 Petabytes/month (500 Terabytes/month in Jan. ’04, 1 Petabyte/month as of Apr. ’04). This is a state-of-the art environment supporting 3,000 servers, soon to be upwards of 30,000. We are looking [...]

Answer Question   |  October 8, 2008  4:31 PM
Backup & recovery, Storage servers, Veritas NetBackup

My backup config needs scaling help
I am currently working at a small company that has been experiencing a lot of growth. Over 90% of our data lies in the scanned images stored on our server. The structured layout of these images are held in a MS SQL 2000 db and served out using vendor software. For our local site I [...]

Answer Question   |  October 19, 2004  1:09 PM
Backup & recovery, DataCenter, Dell, IT architecture, Veritas

beginning SAN infrastructre for the company.
On my windows 2 cpu server with 20 disks, disk queue lengths exceed 40. Windows perfmon and IOmeter benchmarks give me 0.9K IOPs for write and 2K for reads, 8K OLTP block size. #disks : 20 : 36 GB, 15K rpm, U320 scsi with two dual channel controllers with 256 MB cache each. I am [...]

Answer Question   |  February 3, 2009  4:44 PM
SAN, SAN architecture, Storage strategy

First SAN for my company and it is breaking the bank.
On my windows 2 cpu server with 20 disks, disk queue lengths exceed 40. Windows perfmon and IOmeter benchmarks give me 0.9K IOPs for write and 2K for reads, 8K OLTP block size. #disks : 20 : 36 GB, 15K rpm, U320 scsi with two dual channel controllers with 256 MB cache each. I am [...]

Answer Question   |  February 3, 2009  3:05 PM
SAN, SAN spending, Storage products and equipment

Oracle In Linux
How can I able to get and work with Oracle in Linux platform. I am using RedHat Linux 9.0.

Answer Question   |  June 15, 2010  1:41 AM
Administration, AMD PC hardware, Data warehousing/Business intelligence, Database Management Systems, DB2, Development, Hardware, Implementation, Installation/Upgrade, MySQL, Operating system platforms, Oracle, Oracle 8i, Oracle 9i, OS/390, Performance/Tuning, PostgreSQL, Security products, Servers, SQL, SQL Anywhere Studio/M-Business Anywhere/Avantgo, Standard Edition, Standard One Edition, Storage, Storage management, Tech support, UDB for mainframe, Unisys, z/OS

ORA-01033 Oracle Initialization or Shutdown in progress & cannot log into sqlplus.
My Database is in limbo at the moment and i’m trying to get it shut down properly and restarted. I’m getting the ORA-01033 and from I understand from reading posts..i’m to log in as sys/password as sysdba. When I do this, sqlplus is returning the error message: ORA -01031 Insufficient privileges. I’ve tried several different [...]

Answer Question   |  October 8, 2004  7:21 PM
DataCenter, Development, Oracle, Storage, Tech support

Create a small SAP QAS from a large SAP PRD
We have a very large production database and doing a copy back to QAS is becoming untenable. We looked at a tool called Infoshuttle to extract a subset from PRD to create a QAS, but it was not designed to do a “mini-copy” with full integrity as we wanted. Anyone heard of any other tools [...]

Answer Question   |  October 10, 2004  4:01 AM
IT architecture, SAP, Storage, System utilities

Getting errors backing up a Windows SAN
I am running a Windows 2003 server on a SAN. using 2 qlogic 2300′s connected to the IBM 2109-f16 switch. A IBM 4560slx tape library using a FCO (Fibre channel option) card in the library. The FCO card is connected to the IBM 2109-f16 switch. I have “port” zoned the Server and the library in [...]

Answer Question   |  July 15, 2008  10:32 AM
Backup & recovery, HBA, SAN, Storage Area Networks, Windows Server 2003

Question about RAID 1
I have a server with a RAID-1 array with 2 36 gig hard drives. I am wondering could I get another 2 hard drives and add them to the array, and then extend some already partitioned space without formatting?

Answer Question   |  May 24, 2012  4:35 PM
RAID, RAID 1

Starting isql*plus
Hi every one! I know that to start isql*plus in a browser, you are supposed to type something like: http://localhost:<port_number>/isqlplus Problem is, how do you determine the localhost and port number? Second, how can i use Enterprise manager to create reports about my tables in the Oracle database? Thanx.

Answer Question   |  September 29, 2004  6:48 PM
Database issues, Database Management Systems, in use in organization, s, Total size of the database, Very Large Databases

Network UserID Creation/Change
Looking for White Papers, Best Practices, Your Practice…on UserIDs What should a Network UserID look like for strong security? I don’t believe it should contain any part of the user’s legal name. Agree? So what do you use to create a UserID? Should a user be able to change their UserID? Thanks for your input.

Answer Question   |  September 27, 2004  11:46 AM
Administration, Architecture/Design, Biometrics, Compliance, CRM, Digital certificates, Disaster Recovery, Identity & Access Management, Management, Policies, provisioning, Risk management, Security management, Security Program Management, Security tokens, Service and support, Single sign-on