High capacity, off-site data storage needs
I would recommend leaning towards Netapp with the 3 different configurations. Oracle has utilized them and they expand to the PB with ease. I’ve worked with EMC and Hitachi platforms but for your configurations, I would lean towards Netapp. You’ll be looking at the 6000 Series.
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| June 15, 2010 6:18 PM
Data storage, RAID 5, Storage capacity planning, Storage in 2010, Storage Systems
I would recommend leaning towards Netapp with the 3 different configurations. Oracle has utilized them and they expand to the PB with ease. I’ve worked with EMC and Hitachi platforms but for your configurations, I would lean towards Netapp. You’ll be looking at the 6000 Series.
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| June 15, 2010 6:18 PM
Data storage, RAID 5, Storage capacity planning, Storage in 2010, Storage Systems
Backup of only *link objects in BRMS
You should create a new control group and include as only Item *LINK. That will save all of the IFS except the /QSYS.LIB and the /QDLS. When editing the control group items you can display the Help text for more info.
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| June 15, 2010 7:39 AM
Backup, BRMS, BRMS Control Group
You should create a new control group and include as only Item *LINK. That will save all of the IFS except the /QSYS.LIB and the /QDLS. When editing the control group items you can display the Help text for more info.
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| June 15, 2010 7:39 AM
Backup, BRMS, BRMS Control Group
Removable Data Storage Possible Virus?
May be corruption or even file permissions. Copy all the data off the flash drive and re-format it. Then copy the files back.
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| June 15, 2010 3:47 AM
Data storage, Data storage management, Flash drive, Removable data storage, Storage in 2010
May be corruption or even file permissions. Copy all the data off the flash drive and re-format it. Then copy the files back.
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| June 15, 2010 3:47 AM
Data storage, Data storage management, Flash drive, Removable data storage, Storage in 2010
Tape drive showing Interface error
Hi, just getting back on this. We have concluded that its a hardware error, quite confusing. Just changed the tape drive to isolate the problem and instantly, everything is working fine. Hope it goes on for good . . . thanks everyone.
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| June 15, 2010 1:09 AM
AS/400, DUPTAP, EKM, Encryption, Tape Drive
Hi, just getting back on this. We have concluded that its a hardware error, quite confusing. Just changed the tape drive to isolate the problem and instantly, everything is working fine. Hope it goes on for good . . . thanks everyone.
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| June 15, 2010 1:09 AM
AS/400, DUPTAP, EKM, Encryption, Tape Drive
Can you recommend a large (4TB+) backup solution for a network with multiple MAC OS X machines?
In our environment, we are utilzing XSAN (from Apple) but it’s actually manufactured by PromiseTech. It’s a great solution for MAC-based systems. Take a look here: http://www.apple.com/xsan/
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| June 14, 2010 6:26 PM
Backup, Backup software, Mac OS X, Storage in 2010
In our environment, we are utilzing XSAN (from Apple) but it’s actually manufactured by PromiseTech. It’s a great solution for MAC-based systems. Take a look here: http://www.apple.com/xsan/
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| June 14, 2010 6:26 PM
Backup, Backup software, Mac OS X, Storage in 2010
RAID 10, 1/0 or 1+0: do you use this disk technology in your SAP productions?
Hi I am not from SAP background. My office uses SQL. But we use Raid 1+0. Reason for this is by using this raid, the response is faster. That is all I can share with you
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| June 12, 2010 2:06 AM
Disk storage, RAID5, SAP, Storage in 2010
Hi I am not from SAP background. My office uses SQL. But we use Raid 1+0. Reason for this is by using this raid, the response is faster. That is all I can share with you
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| June 12, 2010 2:06 AM
Disk storage, RAID5, SAP, Storage in 2010
Need advice/recommendations for online storage (cloud server?)
Online file hosting sounds like a good fit for a small network. Here’s a google search for <a href=”http://tinyurl.com/326sdwg”>SharePoint hosting</a>. SharePoint is a great collaboration platform. It is a step up from simple file hosting.
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| June 11, 2010 6:09 AM
Cloud Services, Cloud storage, Online Storage, Storage in 2010
Online file hosting sounds like a good fit for a small network. Here’s a google search for <a href=”http://tinyurl.com/326sdwg”>SharePoint hosting</a>. SharePoint is a great collaboration platform. It is a step up from simple file hosting.
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| June 11, 2010 6:09 AM
Cloud Services, Cloud storage, Online Storage, Storage in 2010
Dedicated backup server vs shared server.
I would say to be honest its a question of budget. In an ideal world you would have resilient dedicated primary and backup hardware for all services / tasks. It also depends on the size of your estate and how many users it supports. If for instance you take a DHCP server as an example, [...]
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| June 9, 2010 12:50 PM
Backup Server, Backup server hardware, DHCP, DHCP server, Storage in 2010
I would say to be honest its a question of budget. In an ideal world you would have resilient dedicated primary and backup hardware for all services / tasks. It also depends on the size of your estate and how many users it supports. If for instance you take a DHCP server as an example, [...]
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| June 9, 2010 12:50 PM
Backup Server, Backup server hardware, DHCP, DHCP server, Storage in 2010
Suggestions for home storage solution
For home storage and going to assume that you would want to access this storage from multiple machines, I would get NAS appliance that has RAID protection. Take a look at Buffalo Technology’s solution and look at the total size you would require. Here’s the link: http://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage/home-and-small-office/ Iomega also has some nice home NAS solution [...]
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| June 4, 2010 6:53 PM
Data Recovery, FAT32, NAS, NTFS, Storage in 2010, Storage products and equipment
For home storage and going to assume that you would want to access this storage from multiple machines, I would get NAS appliance that has RAID protection. Take a look at Buffalo Technology’s solution and look at the total size you would require. Here’s the link: http://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage/home-and-small-office/ Iomega also has some nice home NAS solution [...]
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| June 4, 2010 6:53 PM
Data Recovery, FAT32, NAS, NTFS, Storage in 2010, Storage products and equipment
RAID repair
What happened to the RAID that you needed a disk to repair it? If a single disk failed, replacing the disk with a new disk should have done the trick. The RAID card should have rebuild the array to the new disk automatically.
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| June 4, 2010 6:50 PM
RAID, RAID rebuild, Storage in 2010
What happened to the RAID that you needed a disk to repair it? If a single disk failed, replacing the disk with a new disk should have done the trick. The RAID card should have rebuild the array to the new disk automatically.
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| June 4, 2010 6:50 PM
RAID, RAID rebuild, Storage in 2010
Punctured Stripe on RAID 5 Array
This <a href=”http://blog.integrii.net/?p=24″>blog post</a> talks about it a little, and someone gives some info about how to correct the problem without wiping the array. It appears theres some CRC checks that can be enabled to prevent this although not much detail is gone into this concept in the post.
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| June 4, 2010 6:44 PM
RAID, RAID 5, RAID Array, Storage in 2010
This <a href=”http://blog.integrii.net/?p=24″>blog post</a> talks about it a little, and someone gives some info about how to correct the problem without wiping the array. It appears theres some CRC checks that can be enabled to prevent this although not much detail is gone into this concept in the post.
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| June 4, 2010 6:44 PM
RAID, RAID 5, RAID Array, Storage in 2010
Options for a Dell PowerEdge Server?
You’ll want to use the Dell disks. Disks that aren’t from Dell aren’t going to be supported. The Dell disks have code in their BIOS that the dell server uses to diagnose problems before they become problems so that you can proactively replace the disk before it completely fails.
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| June 4, 2010 6:39 PM
Dell PowerEdge, RAID, Storage in 2010, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Servers
You’ll want to use the Dell disks. Disks that aren’t from Dell aren’t going to be supported. The Dell disks have code in their BIOS that the dell server uses to diagnose problems before they become problems so that you can proactively replace the disk before it completely fails.
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| June 4, 2010 6:39 PM
Dell PowerEdge, RAID, Storage in 2010, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Servers
Mirrorview and Oracle 9i
You might be interested in Oracle’s Standby Database option. http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/index.html
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| June 4, 2010 1:13 PM
EMC Arrays, EMC CLARiiON CX3-40, MirrorView, Oracle 9i
You might be interested in Oracle’s Standby Database option. http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/index.html
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| June 4, 2010 1:13 PM
EMC Arrays, EMC CLARiiON CX3-40, MirrorView, Oracle 9i
Top Storage Twitter experts to follow?
Here’s <a href=”http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/IT-watch-blog/cream-of-the-twitter-crop-storage-edition/”>what Melanie put together</a>, but feel free to add: <a href=”http://twitter.com/3parfarley”>3parfarley</a>: Marc Farley, the blogger behind StorageRap, sends out bite-sized bits of storage info. He’s also one of SearchStorage.com’s experts. <a href=”http://twitter.com/storagenerve”>StorageNerve</a>: Devang Panchigar is in the storage/virtualization/computer industry; he blogs over at StorageNerve and Gestalt IT. <a href=”http://twitter.com/skenniston”>skenniston</a>: Follow the Storage Alchemist [...]
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| June 3, 2010 8:29 AM
Storage analysis, Storage in 2010, twitter
Here’s <a href=”http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/IT-watch-blog/cream-of-the-twitter-crop-storage-edition/”>what Melanie put together</a>, but feel free to add: <a href=”http://twitter.com/3parfarley”>3parfarley</a>: Marc Farley, the blogger behind StorageRap, sends out bite-sized bits of storage info. He’s also one of SearchStorage.com’s experts. <a href=”http://twitter.com/storagenerve”>StorageNerve</a>: Devang Panchigar is in the storage/virtualization/computer industry; he blogs over at StorageNerve and Gestalt IT. <a href=”http://twitter.com/skenniston”>skenniston</a>: Follow the Storage Alchemist [...]
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| June 3, 2010 8:29 AM
Storage analysis, Storage in 2010, twitter
SaaS software for running an Interactive Agency
in short are you asking if someone/somebody can made a web based system kind of ERP with that requirements? implementation will be a bit tricky
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| June 2, 2010 9:56 PM
SaaS, Storage in 2010, Web-based Storage
in short are you asking if someone/somebody can made a web based system kind of ERP with that requirements? implementation will be a bit tricky
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| June 2, 2010 9:56 PM
SaaS, Storage in 2010, Web-based Storage
What’s your take on tape storage?
Tape will never die due to compliance issues. It is being replaced as near-line backup due to performance and capacity. Nowadays you will see backups being executed to disk first and then tapes (D-D-T). Now with technologies like dedupe and VTL, tapes are coming from 2nd step to 4 step for archival purposes. But Tape [...]
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| June 1, 2010 5:13 PM
NAS, Open IT Forum, SAN, Storage in 2010, Tape storage
Tape will never die due to compliance issues. It is being replaced as near-line backup due to performance and capacity. Nowadays you will see backups being executed to disk first and then tapes (D-D-T). Now with technologies like dedupe and VTL, tapes are coming from 2nd step to 4 step for archival purposes. But Tape [...]
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| June 1, 2010 5:13 PM
NAS, Open IT Forum, SAN, Storage in 2010, Tape storage
Online file storage, access from anywhere
You can utilize your existing equipment with some modifications to be as low-cost as you can get. Items needed: Storage (duh!) Secure FTP Server (instructions – http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/article/1487/setting-up-a-sftp-server-on-windows) Dynamic DNS account (free) Router supporting DDNS (DD-WRT – open source firewall for most home routers) – free FileZilla client – http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client 1) Create an account on one [...]
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| June 1, 2010 3:20 PM
Dropbox, Online Storage, Storage in 2010
You can utilize your existing equipment with some modifications to be as low-cost as you can get. Items needed: Storage (duh!) Secure FTP Server (instructions – http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/article/1487/setting-up-a-sftp-server-on-windows) Dynamic DNS account (free) Router supporting DDNS (DD-WRT – open source firewall for most home routers) – free FileZilla client – http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client 1) Create an account on one [...]
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| June 1, 2010 3:20 PM
Dropbox, Online Storage, Storage in 2010
Need good cloning software to replace a hard drive.
Personally I would use the ‘dd’ command in Linux. If its good enough for forensics then why use anything else? Not a bad overview of it here: <a href=”http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/learn-the-dd-command-362506/”>Linux DD Command</a>
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| June 1, 2010 2:40 PM
Hard Drive Cloning, Storage in 2010, Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 7 in 2010
Personally I would use the ‘dd’ command in Linux. If its good enough for forensics then why use anything else? Not a bad overview of it here: <a href=”http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/learn-the-dd-command-362506/”>Linux DD Command</a>
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| June 1, 2010 2:40 PM
Hard Drive Cloning, Storage in 2010, Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 7 in 2010
How to restore MDF file as backup database
An MDF file isn’t a backup file isn’t the main data file (or master data file depending on who you ask) hence the file extension MDF. You can attach the MDF to the database by right clicking on the databases folder in Enterprise Manager (SQL 2000) or Management Studio (SQL 2005) then selecting all tasks [...]
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| April 18, 2013 10:44 AM
Backup, Database, MDF, Restore
An MDF file isn’t a backup file isn’t the main data file (or master data file depending on who you ask) hence the file extension MDF. You can attach the MDF to the database by right clicking on the databases folder in Enterprise Manager (SQL 2000) or Management Studio (SQL 2005) then selecting all tasks [...]
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| April 18, 2013 10:44 AM
Backup, Database, MDF, Restore
Hyper-v + iscsi storage
No, the bits always have to be copied over the network from the storage server, to the Hyper-V server, then written back to the Storage Server. EMC and VMware are working on this in VMware’s vSphere 4.1 release, but it will only work with EMC storage arrays. I’m sure others will latch on to these [...]
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| June 1, 2010 9:13 AM
Hyper-V, iSCSI, Storage in 2010, Windows Server 2008 R2
No, the bits always have to be copied over the network from the storage server, to the Hyper-V server, then written back to the Storage Server. EMC and VMware are working on this in VMware’s vSphere 4.1 release, but it will only work with EMC storage arrays. I’m sure others will latch on to these [...]
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| June 1, 2010 9:13 AM
Hyper-V, iSCSI, Storage in 2010, Windows Server 2008 R2
