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Re:SYNCSORT BACKUP EXPRESS
by Robert Souder 08 Dec '00

08 Dec '00

>> Anybody out there in Toasterland using SyncSort Backup Express? Would >> appreciate any first-hand insight -- I have a customer asking me to price it >> out for him, and I'd like to know how it stacks up vs. other products I know >> better (Veritas, Legato, CommVault, Workstation Solutions, etc.). TIA. Joe >> >>>I've been evaluating Backup Express for a little while now. >>>Along with Time Navigator (maybe Veritas soon). We eliminated >>>all the others for one reason or another. >>>There are alot of thing in BackEx I like (as compared to Tina) >>>but there are two big problems that we've found with it. The tape >>>duplication process tries to make an exact copy of the tape. For >>>Vault copies this can be a concern if you dest tape is a bit shorter >>>than the original. The data will just fall off the end of the tape. >>>Plus the software feels somewhat on the flaky side. I'm finding >>>a variety of things that should work but don't, plus having to restart >>>the GUI or the deamons to get things working again (like when it stopped >>>showing me the media report information). Talking with some people here >>>at the LISA show, they feel the same way. That BackEx is not as >>>stable as something like Veritas or Legato's products. >>>-- >>>Jeff Bryer bryer(a)sfu.ca >>>Systems Administrator (604) 291-4935 >>>Academic Computing, Simon Fraser University Jeff, We too have been evaluating and using Backup Express and have been very happy with it and the support received from Syncsort. They are one of the only ones that have a functional NDMP backup product that met our needs. The other companies like Veritas and Legato failed with either lack of support for robot capabilities or other technical reasons. As for restarting the GUI or daemons, we have not experienced this. Not to say we haven't experienced problems, but any problem we have encountered has been quickly answered by one of their support tech's. If they can't answer it they will get back to us usually within an hour. Bob Souder souder(a)super.org IDA - Center for Computing Sciences (CCS) (301) 805-7371

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Antivirus Scanning NTFS shares?
by Witham, John 08 Dec '00

08 Dec '00

Hi All: I've read NetApp just partnered with the big 3 AV vendors [http://quicken.excite.com/investments/news/story/bw/?story=/news/stories/bw /20001129/a2086.htm&symbol=NTAP] BUT, having had to dig myself out of a loveletter reincarnation recently, I'm looking for some input on what other sysadmins do to keep their NetApps free of buggies. I just want something to tide us over until the vaporware AVOnTap becomes a reality. TIA! -john John Witham MCSE, MCP+i, A+ Systems Engineer Takeda Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. V://847.383.3304 F://847.383.3205 mailto://jwitham@takedapharm.com

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RE: SYNCSORT BACKUP EXPRESS
by BrianH＠dice.com 08 Dec '00

08 Dec '00

I agree with that. I also looked at the same set of software, I gave up on Time Navigator pretty quickly. It took about 4 hours to get the initial demo working, and that was with their support engineer. Once I was able to get it working, I find out that they dont support my Qualstar Library, at least until the next version. I also could not use Veritas since it was NT and Solaris only. I wanted to run my master server on Linux. So far we have had pretty good luck with BackEx, the only problems so far is backups that fail and then the netapp locks that snapshot. --Brian -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Bryer [mailto:bryer@sfu.ca] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 4:40 PM To: joe.luchtenberg(a)data-line.com Cc: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Re: SYNCSORT BACKUP EXPRESS > Anybody out there in Toasterland using SyncSort Backup Express? Would > appreciate any first-hand insight -- I have a customer asking me to price it > out for him, and I'd like to know how it stacks up vs. other products I know > better (Veritas, Legato, CommVault, Workstation Solutions, etc.). TIA. Joe > I've been evaluating Backup Express for a little while now. Along with Time Navigator (maybe Veritas soon). We eliminated all the others for one reason or another. There are alot of thing in BackEx I like (as compared to Tina) but there are two big problems that we've found with it. The tape duplication process tries to make an exact copy of the tape. For Vault copies this can be a concern if you dest tape is a bit shorter than the original. The data will just fall off the end of the tape. Plus the software feels somewhat on the flaky side. I'm finding a variety of things that should work but don't, plus having to restart the GUI or the deamons to get things working again (like when it stopped showing me the media report information). Talking with some people here at the LISA show, they feel the same way. That BackEx is not as stable as something like Veritas or Legato's products. -- Jeff Bryer bryer(a)sfu.ca Systems Administrator (604) 291-4935 Academic Computing, Simon Fraser University

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RE: NTFS auditing?
by Watson, Dan 08 Dec '00

08 Dec '00

Hi Brian, We do not yet support viewing the adtlog.evt file directly on the Filer. You will need to move the file to an NT client and then view it with Event Viewer locally. I am not aware of a Unix utility that is able to read the .evt file format. Best, Dan -----Original Message----- From: Brian Tao [mailto:taob@risc.org] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 17:42 To: Benn, Paul Cc: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: RE: NTFS auditing? On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Benn, Paul wrote: > > It's pretty easy to setup and is documented in the System > Administrators guide (if yours are old, you can download a new one > in PDF from NOW). Ah, I see... you just point the NT Event Viewer utility to the file generated by the Netapp. Is there a UNIX utility to view the adtlog.evt file? -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob(a)risc.org) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"

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RE: NTFS auditing?
by Benn, Paul 08 Dec '00

08 Dec '00

Brian, Yes, filers support NTFS-style auditing using the NT Event Viewer. Pre-6.0 versions of Data ONTAP allow "read" and "write" auditing for individual users. ONTAP 6.0 and later allows auditing of "read," "write," "execute," "change ownership" and take ownership." Other enhancements to the auditing in 6.0 include the ability to set a maximum log file size as well as the ability to use the group "Everyone" (versus having to enter individual account names). It's pretty easy to setup and is documented in the System Administrators guide (if yours are old, you can download a new one in PDF from NOW). Regards, Paul Benn Network Appliance -----Original Message----- From: Brian Tao [mailto:taob@risc.org] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 10:41 AM To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: NTFS auditing? Has anyone heard of "NTFS write auditing"? A group within our company would like that enabled for files in a certain directory so they can track who is modifying files. Is this a feature of NTFS itself, or is this achievable over CIFS to a filer? I'm asking this in the context of a Netapp serving up the data, of course. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob(a)risc.org) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"

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Speaking of NetApp User Groups...
by Jeffrey Krueger 07 Dec '00

07 Dec '00

As far as I'm aware, toasters is about the only user community effort going on for NetApps. Are there others? Namely other discussion groups, websites, or user groups. I've never heard of any and so have pretty much assumed that this is it. -- Jeff -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Krueger, NetApp CA E-Mail: jeff(a)qualcomm.com Senior Engineer Phone: 858-651-6709 NetApp Filers / UNIX Infrastructure Fax: 858-651-6627 QUALCOMM, Inc. IT Engineering Web: www.qualcomm.com

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solaris netboot from netapp filer
by Rob Windsor 07 Dec '00

07 Dec '00

This is an odd situation, perhaps someone else has run into it.. I've been running jumpstart off of the netapp, Solaris-2.6 and -8. For both versions, and for any network configuration, any time I netboot a system off of the netapp, I must send one ping packet to the system being jumpstarted to get it beyond "configuring devices..." (Sol-2.6) or "Configured interface hme0" (Sol-8, ultrasparc, same effect for sun4m, just s/hme/le/). This ping packet must be directed specifically at the host, not a broadcast ping ("ping a.b.c.255"). Anyone else seen this? Is there a workaround or hack that makes this go, other than what I'm doing already? Rob++ ---------------------------------------- Rob Windsor E-Mail - mailto:rob_windsor@adc.com Senior Unix Systems Administrator Voice - phone:972-680-6919 Computer Services Fax - phone:972-680-0370 Broadband Access and Transport Group __o ADC Telecommunications _`\<,_ Richardson, TX 75082 (_)/ (_)

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cache age
by bbadyk＠xo.com 07 Dec '00

07 Dec '00

Hello everyone, I have been trying to extract the cache age from a couple different filers and can't seem to locate an SNMP OID that will contain that info..The only other option i can think of is extracting it from an rsh sysstat..Has anyone retrieved that using snmp? Thanks!! -B.J. Badyk

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Re: solaris netboot from netapp filer
by Rob Windsor 07 Dec '00

07 Dec '00

My apologies in advance for posting this publically, since you sent it privately. I thought I would use this opportunity to clarify the situation a bit. On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 14:45:19 PST, Chris Wilkes wrote: > Do you haveto do the ping if you have another solaris box be the > jumpstart server? Nup, this problem doesn't exist if I use a solaris server as the boot server. (That's why I posted to the tosters list.) > I would do a tcpdump on the network to see if the client computer even > contacts the filer, and if the filer responds before the ping. Hmm. We're full of switches here. I'll bridge a couple of ports on the 5500 and sniff for that. This problem is independant of what switch is between the two (client and netapp). I've replicated the problem with an Asante' friendlynet 10/100 switch, a 3com "SuperStack III", and the Cisco 5500. It is also independant of Data OnTap version and filer hardware (seen it on F520, F740, F760). It doesn't matter if we are using sun4m or sun4u boxes, (ultra-1, ultra-2, ultra-10, ultra-60). Rob++ ---------------------------------------- Rob Windsor E-Mail - mailto:rob_windsor@adc.com Senior Unix Systems Administrator Voice - phone:972-680-6919 Computer Services Fax - phone:972-680-0370 Broadband Access and Transport Group __o ADC Telecommunications _`\<,_ Richardson, TX 75082 (_)/ (_)

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SYNCSORT BACKUP EXPRESS
by Joe Luchtenberg 07 Dec '00

07 Dec '00

Anybody out there in Toasterland using SyncSort Backup Express? Would appreciate any first-hand insight -- I have a customer asking me to price it out for him, and I'd like to know how it stacks up vs. other products I know better (Veritas, Legato, CommVault, Workstation Solutions, etc.). TIA. Joe Joe Luchtenberg Dataline, Inc. New number and email, please update: 757.858.0600 858.0606 fax joe.luchtenberg(a)data-line.com

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