Recent content by bommer

SuperDLT is faster and has much higher compression and not that expensive. The SDLT 220 drives will read DLT7000 tapes (if that's what your using). So you can still access your current backups.

I set up two client entries for most of my servers. One for a weekly full offsite backup which uses one schedule, and another for a schedule that runs a weekly full the following night followed by five incrementals (and a skip on the offsite full night). This seems to work fine as long as you...

Legato no longer allows for directed recovers of system db system state and system files on Windows 2000 clients. You can only recover back to the original client. This doesn't cut it when your original client is in the tank and you need to recreate on another server. I never got a clear...

We use strictly hardware compression at the tape drive on our DLT7000's. If you use Legato compression it makes your clients use resources before sending the data. Make sure you don't use Legato compression AND have compression set on the tape drive. I've been told by serveral software...

I would get some references from Legato before installing. We had a department install AlphaStor and he had some problems. It runs a separate Windows server and takes over the administration of your Networker systems. If Alphastor hoses up, your backup systems are down. He removed it and...

A posted a couple of months ago asking about experience with SDLT and got no concrete responses. However, one of the other departments in our company has been using them for three weeks with no problems. Has anyone tested the backward read compatibility with SDLT??? We're looking to buy some...

If you take the course with the test, they are pretty good about making sure you have the information to pass the test. If you have been using Networker full time for 6 months or more you should be able to pass the test, just from hands-on experience. I don't know how to get a practice test.

If you have a StorageTek 9710 with the latest firmware, you should try to force a clean on the drive to get it re-calibrated. We used to have too many cleanings, but the latest firmware was installed and has over compensated the other way. The drives (DLT7000's) don't clean as often as they...

Do your Read Open errors tie up the drives affected or does Networker mount another tape to the drive and go about its business? I have similar problems with my DLT7000's even with the latest firmware. Let me know if the problem continues. STK is supposed to get us a demo drive to test, but...

We're on Networker 6.x, HP-UX 11.0, STK 9710 Silos. We're looking to upgrade from DLT7000's.

Make sure the NIC in the client has the same settings as whatever port its plugged into. In our data center all ports are locked at 100mB full duplex, so Network settings on the NIC also have to be at 100 full or we get the "inactivity timeout" messages.

We do have a fiber connection from the network to our Networker host server We are getting 5 to 8 mb per second with higher bursts from clients that can push the data. We're still considering a beefier host server and/or a second fiber channel from the network to feed these drives among other...

A follow up - the unload errors weren't a problem until we converted to Networker 6.x.

We were getting bunches of "unload errors" on our DLT7000 drives on our STK 9710 silos. The drives would hold onto the tapes and sometimes disable. Often we had to open the silo and manually unmount the tapes. Anyway, we increased the sleep load and sleep unload timers to 45...

We are considering replacing our DLT7000 tape drives with the new Quantum super DLT's. Is anyone using these with Legato? We have a STK 9710 silo using Networker 6.0.2 for HP-UX. They are on the compatibility list but I'd like to get some real confirmation they work at the advertised speeds...