Symantec Backup Exec 2010 media management
What is the best practice in the retention or use period of backup tapes? Is it advisable that backup tapes are retained or use only until the expiration dates recommended by the manufacturer? Is the Symantec Backup Exec 2010 has the feature to identify tape that is not working (backup to tape has failed)? Please [...]

Answer Question   |  April 25, 2013  12:03 PM
Backup tapes, Symantec Backup Exec

TSM tape library
How can I configure TSM tape library?

Answer Question   |  April 11, 2013  11:59 PM
Tape backup, TSM

Security setting on Mac
External hard drive reads files on my Mac, but I can’t write files to it. I can on my PC but I can’t on my Mac, and it is compatible with both. I was able to read/write files to it on other Macs as new as mine in the past, but it won’t let me [...]

Answer Question   |  April 4, 2013  3:55 AM
External hard drives, Security, USB hard drives

Symantec Backup Catalog
How to open the Symantec Backup Catalog for Backup Folder Information.

Answer Question   |  April 3, 2013  11:48 AM
Symantec, Symantec Backup Exec

Question regarding primary storage
I’m a beginner, need to know why its important to know how many system words will fit into a primary storage? I know it 32 to 64 bits, but why is this important to know for example the hard drive.

Answer Question   |  March 25, 2013  2:29 PM
Storage, Storage management

Edit BRMS tape
I have 2 tapes that were saved under my Daily file group and I would like to change them to my Weekly file group. Its mainly a retention issue and I know how to go in and change the move policy, but the tapes are still in my inventory as Daily instead of Weekly.

Answer Question   |  January 11, 2013  3:29 PM
BRMS, Tape backup

Emulate USB thumbdrive with laptop
I’m looking for software that would present a folder on one computer to another computer as if it were a USB thumb drive. In my job I carry around a lot of bootable USB thumb drives. What I’d like to be able to do is have a piece of software on my laptop that would [...]

Answer Question   |  December 28, 2012  1:59 AM
USB Flash drives

Hardware requirements for Backup Exec 2010 R3
What is the minimum hardware requirement to run Backup Exec 2010 R3 in Windows Server 2003? 

Answer Question   |  October 31, 2012  4:06 AM
Backup Exec 2010, Storage, Symantec Backup Exec, Windows Server 2003

tape drive utilization
How do I move a tape drive between 2 LPAR’s without having to do it manually?

Answer Question   |  September 28, 2012  1:23 AM
LPAR, Tape Drive

Debugging USB issues – HELP!
I am having severe trouble getting USB devices to be recognized on my virtual computers. (those USB devices connected to the client computer. ie the XP machine that is running vSphere and NOT the computer that is running ESXi). In vSphere, in the USB connection menu at the top of the console the USB devices [...]

Answer Question   |  August 31, 2012  4:11 PM
ESXi5, USB device not recognzed, USB Flash drives, vSphere 5

Encryption
An idea how to add the system units tape drive to the encryption configuration. We have TS3200 tape library with 4 drives and encryption status is ON.

Answer Question   |  February 27, 2012  1:42 PM
IBM TS3200, Tape Drive

SQL400 Strip non-numeric from a column
Hello everyone, Is there a way to strip non-numeric characters from a char column? Example: I have a Clients file, with column “Telephone Number” (CLPhone, 20, A). The thing is, phone number for many clients is filled with different formats. Example1: (123-12345) Example2: 123 12345 Example3: 123/12345 And even worse . Is there a way to select [...]

Answer Question   |  March 17, 2012  6:54 AM
AS/400, non-numeric, SQL/400, Striping

tape movements
how tape movements will done to off-site?

Answer Question   |  February 28, 2012  6:11 PM
Tape backup

dpm 2010
is a TS3310 supported with dpm2010 w2k8 r2 64bit?

Answer Question   |  November 8, 2011  2:43 PM
Tape libraries

Adding a new volume in Tivoli Storage Management
How to add new volume in TSM

Answer Question   |  October 24, 2011  10:25 AM
IBM Tivoli, TSM, TSM Backup

Full system backup in AS400
Can you please let me know how full system backup in AS400 should be performed?

Answer Question   |  February 8, 2012  9:29 AM
AS/400 backup, AS400 backups, System backups, V5R4

U3-type behaviour on non-sandisk flash drives
Hi, and thanks for taking a minute to read my post. I wonder if members can increase my undrstanding of this issue: U3 creates a virtual CD drive and a “normal” hard-drive-like storage location when the flash drive is inserted.  The technology was invented by Sandisk andmost of the removall tools look for a Sandisk [...]

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  5:10 PM
Flash drive, HARD drive, SanDisk, USB Flash drives

Maximum number of LUN – Performance vs Capacity
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 & [...]

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  8:00 PM
LUN, LUNs, Storage, Storage performance

Partial System Backups
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 [...]

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  6:51 PM
AS400 backups, Backup, System backups, Systems administration

Ultrium 4, Data size in TAPE?
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 [...]

Answer Question   |  March 31, 2012  9:57 AM
Backup, Entire System Backup, iSeries backup, LTO4, Storage Size, Tape Backups, Ultrium, V5R4