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Re : NTFS Permissions Collection and Reporting tool
by ndmpcopy 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

Hello Mark, We have a F820 cluster and for the past 3 years have used Enterprise Security Reporter from Small Wonders (now Scriptlogic). Evaluation s/w available. www.smallwonders.com/products/enterprisesecurityreporter/ Its installed to a W2000 server and runs on filer CIFS shares (Qtrees). Stores data in MSDE. Collecting data can take awhile, 1 day for 1 million + files. I run as weekly scheduled tasks. Once data is in SQL can then quickly run any number of reports/searches for permissions. I've found it generally good and will use the same tool on new filers we are introducing. You need a licence per filer and 3 years ago it was $500 per filer (server) with the price independent of filer raw capacity or no of users. Chris -------- Original Message -------- Subject: NTFS Permissions Collection and Reporting ToolDate: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 11:42:59 -0500From: "Crawford, Mark (CBC)" <Mark.Crawford(a)capbluecross.com>To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Hello, Is anyone aware of a product that will collect and report on NTFS permissions? Our company uses a product known as Aelita by Quest Software. When we implemented our NetApp filers, Aelita could no longer collect and report on the NTFS permissions of the CIFS shares. We had developed an in-house solution as temporary stop-gap. But that has outlived its potential.Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the individual to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or disclosure of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete the original message. Your compliance is appreciated. --------------------------------- To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre.

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by Karen Tucker 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

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Mortgagebrokers.com Expands to Alberta
by Alex. H 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

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Re: NuView vs Rainfinity
by Louis Elias 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Thanks for the nice words. StorageX and VFM are functionally identical. One is sold by Netapp (VFM) and the other by NuView. NFS support was added in version 5.5. Thanks, Louis -----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com <owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com> To: drew.odonnell(a)americas.bnpparibas.com <drew.odonnell(a)americas.bnpparibas.com>; toasters(a)mathworks.com <toasters(a)mathworks.com> Sent: Wed Nov 02 17:42:27 2005 Subject: RE: NuView vs Rainfinity You may also like to know that VFM (Virtual File Manager) from NetApp is a cut down version of StorageX from Nuview. I have had StorageX in and running on Eval - and to be honest, if I had enough budget (Well a budget of greater than zero) to play with would have gone with it for the Global Name Space virtualisation within the windows environment we were running. The only short coming it had at the time was no NFS. I was told that this was on the roadmap - not sure if it is here yet ? Jason ________________________________ From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of drew.odonnell(a)americas.bnpparibas.com Sent: 02 November 2005 18:49 To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: NuView vs Rainfinity We are currently evaluating NuView and Rainfinity for their ability to use a global name space through use of AD and DFS. We have the need to virtualize shares from 1 server to multiple filers. NuView seems to be the ticket, however Rainfinity seems to be fairly similar. Any positive or negative feedback would be appreciated. Drew This message and any attachments (the "message") is intended solely for the addressees and is confidential. If you receive this message in error, please delete it and immediately notify the sender. Any use not in accord with its purpose, any dissemination or disclosure, either whole or partial, is prohibited except formal approval. The internet can not guarantee the integrity of this message. BNP PARIBAS (and its subsidiaries) shall (will) not therefore be liable for the message if modified. --------------------------------------------- Ce message et toutes les pieces jointes (ci-apres le "message") sont etablis a l'intention exclusive de ses destinataires et sont confidentiels. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci de le detruire et d'en avertir immediatement l'expediteur. Toute utilisation de ce message non conforme a sa destination, toute diffusion ou toute publication, totale ou partielle, est interdite, sauf autorisation expresse. L'internet ne permettant pas d'assurer l'integrite de ce message, BNP PARIBAS (et ses filiales) decline(nt) toute responsabilite au titre de ce message, dans l'hypothese ou il aurait ete modifie.

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DS4000 management protocol analyzer
by Ryan 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Dswrench.com announces a new debugging tool for the "DS4000 storage server (Engenio based disk storage array)." We are proud to introduce the DS4000 Management Protocol Analyzer, or DSMPA. DSMPA is freeware built by engineers for engineers, so we encourage you to use often and spread the word! What it does: DSPMA captures management network traffic between SANtricity or other management software and disk storage arrays. It assembles network packets into DS4000 management objects. The captured objects can be viewed graphically and played back. It is a powerful tool for DS4000 storage server support center, storage administrators, storage management software developers and quality assurance engineers. To view sample shots of DSMPA capabilities, click the following links: -To access the User guide, please click http://www.dswrench.com/documents/dsmpa.pdf. -To access the DSMPA main screen, please click http://www.dswrench.com/documents/CaptureAndView.html -DSMPA can save a communication session to html file. To view a sample session output, please click http://www.dswrench.com/documents/session_sample.html. -DSMPA also captures SANtricity generated network traffic. This page (http://www.dswrench.com/documents/snmp_sample.html) shows captured SNMP trap fired by the SANtricity management software. How to get it: DSMPA is now available for free download from http://www.dswrench.com For more information, please visit http://www.dswrench.com. Thank you for taking a few minutes to improve the operation of your DS4000 storage server. Please visit dswrench.com often for updates and new software. Use often and spread the word! Best Regards, The Dswrench.com Team

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NuView vs Rainfinity
by drew.odonnell＠americas.bnpparibas.com 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

We are currently evaluating NuView and Rainfinity for their ability to use a global name space through use of AD and DFS. We have the need to virtualize shares from 1 server to multiple filers. NuView seems to be the ticket, however Rainfinity seems to be fairly similar. Any positive or negative feedback would be appreciated. Drew This message and any attachments (the "message") is intended solely for the addressees and is confidential. If you receive this message in error, please delete it and immediately notify the sender. Any use not in accord with its purpose, any dissemination or disclosure, either whole or partial, is prohibited except formal approval. The internet can not guarantee the integrity of this message. BNP PARIBAS (and its subsidiaries) shall (will) not therefore be liable for the message if modified. --------------------------------------------- Ce message et toutes les pieces jointes (ci-apres le "message") sont etablis a l'intention exclusive de ses destinataires et sont confidentiels. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci de le detruire et d'en avertir immediatement l'expediteur. Toute utilisation de ce message non conforme a sa destination, toute diffusion ou toute publication, totale ou partielle, est interdite, sauf autorisation expresse. L'internet ne permettant pas d'assurer l'integrite de ce message, BNP PARIBAS (et ses filiales) decline(nt) toute responsabilite au titre de ce message, dans l'hypothese ou il aurait ete modifie.

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Auto Creation of Windows Share
by Scott, Tom E 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

List, I think I lost the part of my mind that this information stored in it. But what is the syntax, from a Win2k3 server, to create a Windows share on a F810 filer. Basically I want to automate the creation of Users to include their home directory on the file. I can easily automate creating the directory on the filer, but what about the share? Currently we do it via Filer view or use Manage from My Computer. Thanks in advance.

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NTFS Permissions Collection and Reporting Tool
by Crawford, Mark (CBC) 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hello, Is anyone aware of a product that will collect and report on NTFS permissions? Our company uses a product known as Aelita by Quest Software. When we implemented our NetApp filers, Aelita could no longer collect and report on the NTFS permissions of the CIFS shares. We had developed an in-house solution as temporary stop-gap. But that has outlived its potential. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the individual to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or disclosure of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete the original message. Your compliance is appreciated.

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VIRUS (Win32/MyDoom.O!Worm): IN UNA E-MAIL DA LEI INVIATA
by Content-filter at chamaleon.trampi.mpi.it 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

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Can CIFS set ctime to arbitrary value?
by Steve Losen 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

We have a FAS3050 CF pair for home directory access via both NFS and CIFS. We use unix style file security throughout. We are running DOT 7.0.1R1. We have discovered a directory with files apparently created via CIFS where the ctimes are almost two months in the future (Dec 30, 2005). I am pretty sure that there is no way to muck with ctime via NFS. You can only set atime and mtime to arbitrary values and I think that the filer sets ctime based on its own clock. Does CIFS work differently? Can you set ctime to something arbitrary with CIFS? Is there an option to prevent this? We have some home grown backup software that access the filers via NFS that uses mtime and ctime to decide what files need to be backed up. If CIFS can set ctime arbitrarily, then our incremental dumps may be skipping files that should really be backed up. Steve Losen scl(a)virginia.edu phone: 434-924-0640 University of Virginia ITC Unix Support

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RE: NetApp 3050 vs Dell 6650
by Carter K. George 29 Oct '05

29 Oct '05

I am sure the FAS 3050 is a fine solution and yes, FlexVols are cool, but NFS on Linux is nowhere near as bad as you make it out to be. On current distributions (SuSE SLES9 - which has the better Linux NFS - and RHEL) both UDP and TCP are supported and work just fine. There was some trouble with older 2.4 Linux kernels with TCP, but that's long since fixed. rsize and wsize up to 32768 is also supported on both UDP and TCP, at least on SuSE Linux. And Jumbo frames work just fine on Linux NFS, as some of our benchmarks show (we have now gotten over 2,000 Megabytes (not Megabits) per second over NFS from a single Linux file system, read and write, using iozone). That's using a cluster file system to mount and export the same file system from multiple Linux nodes concurrently. With jumbo frames and two standard GigE ports, you get about 225 MB/sec per node. Need more bandwidth to/from a given file or file system? Just add more nodes. It is true that the NFSv4 server is not entirely mainstream on Linux yet. The NFSv4 client and server are both being developed at the University of Michigan, Center for Information Technology Integration, with funding from Network Appliance, PolyServe, and IBM. You can track the progress here: http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/ While v4 might not be a standard part of the enterprise distributions yet, this code runs, it passes interoperability tests with other NFSv4 implementations at the NFSv4 Bakeathons, and you can download it and run it for free on any Linux server with a suitable kernel. It may well be behind the NetApp implementation, but it is not in its infancy and in fact, NetApps has been very generous with both people and money in supporting the development and testing of NFS v4 on Linux. ckg -----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Tim Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 4:08 PM To: Blake Golliher Cc: ChazzCRH; toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Re: NetApp 3050 vs Dell 6650 From a performance and stability standpoint, as I recall, the RHEL3 NFS server only supports NFS over UDP reliably and only with a max rsize/wsize of 8192. A Filer does UDP and TCP(the preferred method) and supports rsize & wsize of 32768, and in some cases 65536 over TCP. Couple that with JUMBO frames if your entrire infrastructure is GigE and I would suspect it would outperform hands down. Heck probably without JUMBO frames it would still be better. The NFS v4 server on RHEL 3/4 is still in its' infancy (experimental?) compared to NetApp. The RHEL3/4 NFS client rocks though. It does support NFS v3/4 given your version of RHEL supports it. Not to mention the awesome flexibilty of Flexible Volumes which are a breeze to administer.... --tmac Blake Golliher wrote: > SIO from NetApp is a great tool for this. So is iometer if you wanted > something from a non vendor source, but netapp also releases the > source to SIO, so it's pretty trustworthy a tool to me. But I do like > iozone's excel graph output (you hearing that NetApp?). > > SIO has an output of iops, and MB's per second. You can do threading, > and differnt block sizes to better simulate the workload your current > setup handles. > > The first thing you have to do, and I always for get this, is create a > file that's the size of, or larger, of the workload you are going to > run sio against. In solaris you can just use mkfile, but for linux, I > just do a quick dd. > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/netapp/root/test_sio_file bs=1024k count=100 > > which creates a 100MB file. > > Here's an example output, so you see what I'm talking about... > > [golliher(a)admin.lab sio] sudo ./sio_ntap_freebsd 50 100 4k 20m 4 2 > /mnt/netapp/root/test_sio_file > Version: 3.00 > > SIO_NTAP: > Inputs > Read %: 50 > Random %: 100 > Block Size: 4096 > File Size: 20971520 > Secs: 4 > Threads: 2 > File(s): /mnt/netapp/root/test_sio_file > Outputs > IOPS: 162 > KB/s: 647 > IOs: 2763 > Terminating threads ...[golliher(a)admin.lab sio] > > You can see more examples of how to run it from the man page, and I > recommend doing that. As you can see, my run had half reads, half > writes of random 4K I/O's to a file I specifed. The test ran for 4 > seconds with 2 threads and on only 20MB of the target file. > > Hope that helps.... > -Blake > > ps, the readme is out of date for SIO, the Makefile has full support > for freebsd os. Probably a little tweaking, and it'll run on > MacOSX... > > On 10/28/05, ChazzCRH (sent by Nabble.com) <lists(a)nabble.com> wrote: > >> We are considering replacing our current NFS server which is a Dell 6650 >>with Quad Xeon MP 2.7 procs, 12GB RAM, 4GB NICS running RHEL3 with a 3050 >>cluster. >> >>We are running 7.2K SATA drives from Winchester Systems connected via an >>U320 SCSI to the Dell today and we would be running NetApp's 250GB SATA >>drives on the 3050 cluster. >> >>NetApp posts IOPS as a performance metric but I am unable to find anything >>like that related to my Dell configuration so trying to figure out the >>performance gain and justifying the money we would be saving is becoming >>very tough. I can look at reads and writes per sec using IOSTAT on my Dell >>but I am not 100% sure its apples to apples compared to IOPS. >> >>Can anyone shed some light on this for me? >> >>Thanks ! >> >>-C >> >> >>________________________________ >> Sent from the Network Appliance - Toasters forum at Nabble.com. > > >

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perfstat for macosx
by Blake Golliher 29 Oct '05

29 Oct '05

Would anyone be intersted in my patch for macosx to run on Darwin? I'm still adding to it, but the patch works, and runs as is. It's fairly straight forward to see what I did, but it might save you the typing. I'll include it with this email. -Blake

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RE: NetApp 3050 vs Dell 6650
by George, Andrew 29 Oct '05

29 Oct '05

I'm not great with NFS but have you tried seeing if anything posted on www.spec.org, they do a lot of nfs benchmarking. -----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Blake Golliher Sent: Saturday, 29 October 2005 7:27 AM To: ChazzCRH Cc: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Re: NetApp 3050 vs Dell 6650 SIO from NetApp is a great tool for this. So is iometer if you wanted something from a non vendor source, but netapp also releases the source to SIO, so it's pretty trustworthy a tool to me. But I do like iozone's excel graph output (you hearing that NetApp?). SIO has an output of iops, and MB's per second. You can do threading, and differnt block sizes to better simulate the workload your current setup handles. The first thing you have to do, and I always for get this, is create a file that's the size of, or larger, of the workload you are going to run sio against. In solaris you can just use mkfile, but for linux, I just do a quick dd. dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/netapp/root/test_sio_file bs=1024k count=100 which creates a 100MB file. Here's an example output, so you see what I'm talking about... [golliher(a)admin.lab sio] sudo ./sio_ntap_freebsd 50 100 4k 20m 4 2 /mnt/netapp/root/test_sio_file Version: 3.00 SIO_NTAP: Inputs Read %: 50 Random %: 100 Block Size: 4096 File Size: 20971520 Secs: 4 Threads: 2 File(s): /mnt/netapp/root/test_sio_file Outputs IOPS: 162 KB/s: 647 IOs: 2763 Terminating threads ...[golliher(a)admin.lab sio] You can see more examples of how to run it from the man page, and I recommend doing that. As you can see, my run had half reads, half writes of random 4K I/O's to a file I specifed. The test ran for 4 seconds with 2 threads and on only 20MB of the target file. Hope that helps.... -Blake ps, the readme is out of date for SIO, the Makefile has full support for freebsd os. Probably a little tweaking, and it'll run on MacOSX... On 10/28/05, ChazzCRH (sent by Nabble.com) <lists(a)nabble.com> wrote: > We are considering replacing our current NFS server which is a Dell > 6650 with Quad Xeon MP 2.7 procs, 12GB RAM, 4GB NICS running RHEL3 > with a 3050 cluster. > > We are running 7.2K SATA drives from Winchester Systems connected via > an U320 SCSI to the Dell today and we would be running NetApp's 250GB > SATA drives on the 3050 cluster. > > NetApp posts IOPS as a performance metric but I am unable to find > anything like that related to my Dell configuration so trying to > figure out the performance gain and justifying the money we would be > saving is becoming very tough. I can look at reads and writes per sec > using IOSTAT on my Dell but I am not 100% sure its apples to apples compared to IOPS. > > Can anyone shed some light on this for me? > > Thanks ! > > -C > > > ________________________________ > Sent from the Network Appliance - Toasters forum at Nabble.com.

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Re: NetApp 3050 vs Dell 6650
by Tim 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

From a performance and stability standpoint, as I recall, the RHEL3 NFS server only supports NFS over UDP reliably and only with a max rsize/wsize of 8192. A Filer does UDP and TCP(the preferred method) and supports rsize & wsize of 32768, and in some cases 65536 over TCP. Couple that with JUMBO frames if your entrire infrastructure is GigE and I would suspect it would outperform hands down. Heck probably without JUMBO frames it would still be better. The NFS v4 server on RHEL 3/4 is still in its' infancy (experimental?) compared to NetApp. The RHEL3/4 NFS client rocks though. It does support NFS v3/4 given your version of RHEL supports it. Not to mention the awesome flexibilty of Flexible Volumes which are a breeze to administer.... --tmac Blake Golliher wrote: > SIO from NetApp is a great tool for this. So is iometer if you wanted > something from a non vendor source, but netapp also releases the > source to SIO, so it's pretty trustworthy a tool to me. But I do like > iozone's excel graph output (you hearing that NetApp?). > > SIO has an output of iops, and MB's per second. You can do threading, > and differnt block sizes to better simulate the workload your current > setup handles. > > The first thing you have to do, and I always for get this, is create a > file that's the size of, or larger, of the workload you are going to > run sio against. In solaris you can just use mkfile, but for linux, I > just do a quick dd. > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/netapp/root/test_sio_file bs=1024k count=100 > > which creates a 100MB file. > > Here's an example output, so you see what I'm talking about... > > [golliher(a)admin.lab sio] sudo ./sio_ntap_freebsd 50 100 4k 20m 4 2 > /mnt/netapp/root/test_sio_file > Version: 3.00 > > SIO_NTAP: > Inputs > Read %: 50 > Random %: 100 > Block Size: 4096 > File Size: 20971520 > Secs: 4 > Threads: 2 > File(s): /mnt/netapp/root/test_sio_file > Outputs > IOPS: 162 > KB/s: 647 > IOs: 2763 > Terminating threads ...[golliher(a)admin.lab sio] > > You can see more examples of how to run it from the man page, and I > recommend doing that. As you can see, my run had half reads, half > writes of random 4K I/O's to a file I specifed. The test ran for 4 > seconds with 2 threads and on only 20MB of the target file. > > Hope that helps.... > -Blake > > ps, the readme is out of date for SIO, the Makefile has full support > for freebsd os. Probably a little tweaking, and it'll run on > MacOSX... > > On 10/28/05, ChazzCRH (sent by Nabble.com) <lists(a)nabble.com> wrote: > >> We are considering replacing our current NFS server which is a Dell 6650 >>with Quad Xeon MP 2.7 procs, 12GB RAM, 4GB NICS running RHEL3 with a 3050 >>cluster. >> >>We are running 7.2K SATA drives from Winchester Systems connected via an >>U320 SCSI to the Dell today and we would be running NetApp's 250GB SATA >>drives on the 3050 cluster. >> >>NetApp posts IOPS as a performance metric but I am unable to find anything >>like that related to my Dell configuration so trying to figure out the >>performance gain and justifying the money we would be saving is becoming >>very tough. I can look at reads and writes per sec using IOSTAT on my Dell >>but I am not 100% sure its apples to apples compared to IOPS. >> >>Can anyone shed some light on this for me? >> >>Thanks ! >> >>-C >> >> >>________________________________ >> Sent from the Network Appliance - Toasters forum at Nabble.com. > > >

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NetApp 3050 vs Dell 6650
by ChazzCRH (sent by Nabble.com) 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

We are considering replacing our current NFS server which is a Dell 6650 with Quad Xeon MP 2.7 procs, 12GB RAM, 4GB NICS running RHEL3 with a 3050 cluster. We are running 7.2K SATA drives from Winchester Systems connected via an U320 SCSI to the Dell today and we would be running NetApp's 250GB SATA drives on the 3050 cluster. NetApp posts IOPS as a performance metric but I am unable to find anything like that related to my Dell configuration so trying to figure out the performance gain and justifying the money we would be saving is becoming very tough. I can look at reads and writes per sec using IOSTAT on my Dell but I am not 100% sure its apples to apples compared to IOPS. Can anyone shed some light on this for me? Thanks ! -C -- Sent from the Network Appliance - Toasters forum at Nabble.com: http://www.nabble.com/NetApp-3050-vs-Dell-6650-t463122.html#a1264416

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RE: NDMP Copy for windows..
by Pou Lee 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

From archived email messages I have ascertained that the F760 was running DOT 6.0.1R3 that at that time (3/2004) was only shown as "earlier releases" on NOW, not in the active supported version list. NDMPcopy did not work via either push or pull between the F760 running DOT 6.0.1R3 and the FAS250 running 6.5 since no client existed in DOT 6.0.1R3 or version compatibility issue. Options at that time were: 1. Upgrade first to 6.2 then to 6.5 2. Use NT/W2K (AS) Java NDMP copy client running on NT 4 workstation (there was a Net App PS internal tech guide on this process) 3. Use "volcopy", copying whole volume; requires complete downtime (10 - 20 hours pending on number of network interfaces and their speeds; could add Fiber GigE for connection to Copper GigE on FAS 250 if a swtich supporting both Fiber and copper is available) 4. Use third party remote data replication software like "Secure Copy", "Robo Copy" for Windows data and "rsync" for UNIX data; requires long time (20 -30 hours) and two different processes for the two types of data Option 1 was deemed problematic since two upgrades are involved so more could go wrong potentially Option 2 was chosen and executed with no problem. Option 3 & 4 were not recommended due to long outage. -----Original Message----- From: Tim [mailto:tmacmd@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 3:40 AM To: Pou Lee Cc: Jeff Mohler; Toasters List Subject: Re: NDMP Copy for windows.. If the java NDMPcopy worked on 6.2 (which it should have since ndmp has been around in ONTAP for a long time) then the ndmpcopy program would have also worked from the FAS250: fas250> ndmpcopy -sa root760:pass f760:/vol/src fas250:/vol/dest Of course, you could also rsh/ssh the command to keep the console/command-line free. Why not upgrade the F760 to the latest 6.5 code for the migration? mmm....? Pou Lee wrote: > Jeff, > > You might want to check with your Net App Sales account manager to see > if they can get you a copy of NDMP Java client from Net App Professional > Service. We have used the NDMP Java W2K client for migration from a > F760 running DOT 6.2 to a FAS250 running DOT 6.5 since DOT 6.2 does > not support NDMP (if I recall correctly) so we had to be creative. > > If you need to migrate data from Windows servers to Net App filers, you > might also want to consider OSSV (Open Systems Snap Vault). We have used > OSSV successfully in multiple instances migrating data from W2K AS > servers to R200's with assistance from Net App Professional Services > after engaging Sales account manager. > > Pou > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] > On Behalf Of Jeff Mohler > Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 2:27 PM > To: Toasters List > Subject: NDMP Copy for windows.. > > I don't see a client on ndmp.org, but has there ever been an ndmpcopy > for > windows put out anywhere? > > >

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Trend-Micro VSCAN disabling access to Users' Home Directory !
by Rafailov, Elman 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

Hi All, Has anyone been using / experiencing issues running trend-micro VSCAN on the filers. We are running an FAS270C netapp SAN. We have a flexible volume called home_directory w/ two subfolders: users and profiles to host our users' home directory. We are also hosting the groups directory on the filer, exchange databases, sql databases and a bunch of other cifs shares. Yesterday, late afternoon - users' were prevented from accessing their home direcories. They would get an hour glass and their computer would freeze. There was no impact on the groups directory, exchange or sql or any other cifs/luns except for the home directory. As soon as i disabled vscan on the filer, users were once again able to access the home directory. I have since kept vscan off until i can figure why this happened. Any advise would be appreciated. Regards, Elman. "WorldSecure Server <investcorp.com>" made the following annotations on 10/27/05 14:57:02 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by returning the original message to the sender and then delete the message. Thank you. ==============================================================================

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Re: NDMP Copy for windows..
by Tim 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

If the java NDMPcopy worked on 6.2 (which it should have since ndmp has been around in ONTAP for a long time) then the ndmpcopy program would have also worked from the FAS250: fas250> ndmpcopy -sa root760:pass f760:/vol/src fas250:/vol/dest Of course, you could also rsh/ssh the command to keep the console/command-line free. Why not upgrade the FAS760 to the latest 6.5 code for the migration? mmm....? Pou Lee wrote: > Jeff, > > You might want to check with your Net App Sales account manager to see > if they can get you a copy of NDMP Java client from Net App Professional > Service. We have used the NDMP Java W2K client for migration from a > FAS760 running DOT 6.2 to a FAS250 running DOT 6.5 since DOT 6.2 does > not support NDMP (if I recall correctly) so we had to be creative. > > If you need to migrate data from Windows servers to Net App filers, you > might also want to consider OSSV (Open Systems Snap Vault). We have used > OSSV successfully in multiple instances migrating data from W2K AS > servers to R200's with assistance from Net App Professional Services > after engaging Sales account manager. > > Pou > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] > On Behalf Of Jeff Mohler > Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 2:27 PM > To: Toasters List > Subject: NDMP Copy for windows.. > > I don't see a client on ndmp.org, but has there ever been an ndmpcopy > for > windows put out anywhere? > > >

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RE: NDMP Copy for windows..
by Pou Lee 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

Jeff, You might want to check with your Net App Sales account manager to see if they can get you a copy of NDMP Java client from Net App Professional Service. We have used the NDMP Java W2K client for migration from a FAS760 running DOT 6.2 to a FAS250 running DOT 6.5 since DOT 6.2 does not support NDMP (if I recall correctly) so we had to be creative. If you need to migrate data from Windows servers to Net App filers, you might also want to consider OSSV (Open Systems Snap Vault). We have used OSSV successfully in multiple instances migrating data from W2K AS servers to R200's with assistance from Net App Professional Services after engaging Sales account manager. Pou -----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Mohler Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 2:27 PM To: Toasters List Subject: NDMP Copy for windows.. I don't see a client on ndmp.org, but has there ever been an ndmpcopy for windows put out anywhere?

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Re: NDMP Copy for windows..
by Tim 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

Jeff Mohler wrote: > I don't see a client on ndmp.org, but has there ever been an ndmpcopy for > windows put out anywhere? > > > Why Jeff, why ever would you need it since ndmpcopy is on all ONTAP OS's after something like 6.4? --tmac

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NDMP Copy for windows..
by Jeff Mohler 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

I don't see a client on ndmp.org, but has there ever been an ndmpcopy for windows put out anywhere?

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ISCSI security issues?
by Kettinen, Hannu SITI-ITIBHL 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

> Hi, Could anyone with ISCSI experience comment on this article? > > * Technical Description * > > A vulnerability has been identified in Network Appliance Data ONTAP, which could be exploited by remote attackers to bypass the authentication mechanism. This flaw is due to an error when processing specially crafted iSCSI requests, which could be exploited by remote attackers to bypass the authentication procedure and gain unauthorized access to a vulnerable application. > > * Affected Products * > > Network Appliance Data ONTAP version 6.4 > Network Appliance Data ONTAP version 6.5 > Network Appliance Data ONTAP version 7.0 > > * Solution * > > Upgrade to version 7.0.2 : > > http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2005/2193 > > Thanks and Regards, > Hannu > >

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Re: NDMP Backup fails (U)
by Tim 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

163379/164710 (Duplicate) This is fixed in 7.0.2. This is likely your issue. Get 7.0.2 and see if that helps. remeber to set ndmpd version back to 4 if you changed it. --tmac tmac wrote: > I would doubt that very much. > Veritas NetBackup has used version 4 since at least 5.0. > Most backup applications negotiate the version of NDMP correclty. > Granted, older versions of some software (like NetBackup 4.5) did not > and you had to set the version manually. > > While I worked at NTAP, NBU was the only product I had to do that with. > > Honestly though, there is a bug in ONTAP tape storage code that is > exactly this problem. > Dump works fine until you have to span tapes. > > This fix, I was told, will not be in ONTAP until 7.0.2. > > A quick look at the bug fixes do not show it as being fixed in 7.0.1.1P2 > > ---tmac > > Get a > > On 10/18/05, *Garavito, Donald, CTR, OSD-NII* > <Donald.Garavito.ctr(a)osd.mil <mailto:Donald.Garavito.ctr@osd.mil>> wrote: > > UNCLASSIFIED > Also check the NDMP version level that Arcserve is set at. Most > backup software, with exception of Syncsort Backup Express v2.2.x, > will only work up to NDMP v3. NetApp DOT v6.4 and above default to > v4. Basically, when first tape is done filer is sending v4 status > command to Arcserve stating EOT and request new tape mount, v3 > backup software doesn't understand command and plays dumb, > eventually filer will time out waiting for new tape and responds > with a tape failure message. > > You need to change ndmp setting of filer to NDMP maxversion level of 3. > > >ndmpd version 3 > > Use command without version number to display current setting. > > Have fun, > Don > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com > <mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com> [ > mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Tim > Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 7:05 AM > To: Patrick van Helden > Cc: toasters(a)mathworks.com <mailto:toasters@mathworks.com> > Subject: Re: NDMP Backup fails > > Whaqt version of ONTAP are you running? > I think you are hitting a bug in the NDMP code on ontap. > > Are you running 7.x? if so, upgrade to 7.0.1.1P2 ASAP and see if > your problem goes away. I think the bug was fixed in that patch > release (or maybe 7.0.1.1P1). > > --tmac > > Patrick van Helden wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > Anyone out there that can help with the following: > > > > > > > > We have a R200 Nearstore with a Storagetek L80 library attached > trough FC. > > > > > > > > We use Brightstor Arcserve 11.1 SP1 (latest patches) to backup a > > volume on the filer. > > > > > > > > All seems to go fine, until the second tape is requested. In the > > Arcserve log it says: > > > > > > > > E8535 01-10-2005 00:15:04 154 1 Failed to > > receive data from the client agent. (ADDRESS=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > > (xxxxxxx), EC=9, COMMAND=0) > > Information 01-10-2005 00:15:01 154 1 Resume > Backup > > Operation. > > Information 01-10-2005 00:15:01 154 1 Format > FRIDAY > > [S/N:, ID:1541, Seq:1] as FRIDAY [S/N:, ID:9F36, Seq:2]. > > Information 01-10-2005 00:14:48 End > cleaning > > database. (CLEANED=0) > > Information 01-10-2005 00:14:48 Begin > cleaning > > database. > > Information 01-10-2005 00:14:01 154 1 Next media > > FRIDAY, ID 9F36, sequence #2 > > Information 30-09-2005 21:01:07 154 1 Backup > Session > > 1 on Media FRIDAY > > Information 30-09-2005 21:01:07 154 1 Source > > Directory: vol\data\.snapshot\hourly.0 > > > > > > > > After this the backup job obviously fails. > > > > > > > > We have tried all options given by arcserve but without any success. > > Also we attached the library using direct attached SCSI but no > success. > > All the configuration options are checked and seem oke. Also the > NDMP > > log on the filer shows no errors. > > > > > > > > Regards to all toaster fans, > > > > > > > > Patrick > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > --tmac > > Principal Consultant, RABA Technologies > 240-373-3926 (office) > 443-363-0208 (eFAX)

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21 Oct '05

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