Sasha:
It's not quite the same, but I wrote a simple how-to about the adaptec raid
controller that's posted on the e-smith site. It should pretty much tell you how
to set the iwill subsystem up for data storage, and use a separate boot drive
from the motherboard ide channel for everything els
I've asked this a couple of times; even had a Mitec sales engineer promising to
e-mail me on this subject, but there doesn't appear to be a simple answer. The
suggestion that made the most sense, was to get a 3ware 6200 hardware raid card
(about $125) use that instead of the software raid. The car
One idea, almost silly. Could there be another box on the LAN with the same
machine name that wasn't running yesterday? In Win2K, you see what the machine
name is by right-clicking on My Computer, then Properties, then Network
Identification. (It will also show your Workgroup / Domain name).
Rega
ou talking about "standard filesystem types" and not partitions?
Thnx,
Tom
Gordon Rowell wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 06:50:37PM -0400, "Thomas E. Keiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> > Dan:
> >
> > You're right on the money -- th
Dan:
You're right on the money -- the expand worked perfectly, and I should get a
good backup tonight.
Thanks again,
Tom
Dan Brown wrote:
> Quoting "Thomas E. Keiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > thought this method would work fine. I think it will, but
As some of you may know, I put an Adaptec Raid controller
and raid 5 array into an ESSG, and mounted it at
/home/e-smith/files. Everything should be transparent to the
server software, but flexbackup did a backup of what it
thought were the only two partitions (/ and /boot) and
skipped over the th
I've set up an e-smith Server (no gateway) as: "primary
domain name = 'company.com'". This outfit also has a web
page hosted by an ISP which is known publicly as
www.company.com. Since the e-smith server is providing DNS
services to the LAN, if they point their browsers to
"www.company.com" they
Yes -- I use e-smith the same way you do, except I only remmap
/home/e-smith/files to the raid array.
Regards,
Tom
Matthieu Perreira Da Silva wrote:
> Helo !
>
> I don't know if many people is in my case, but I've got an E-Smith box set
> up with multiple hard disks: 1 for / and /boot, and a
Use a printer or printserver with an ethernet port. HP jetdirect or similar work great. I also use a NoName box with 1xTCP/IP and 3xLPT ports for about $100. Assign an hostentry ( dnj755cm, dj2000c,...) within the e-smith-manager for your Printserver outside the range of your DHCP range. For DH
Does anyone have any favorable experiences with network
print servers that either coexist with e-smith, or work well
with it? I have a network with printers no where near the
e-smith server, so a parallel port connection is out of the
question.
Thanks,
Tom Keiser
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Please report bugs to [EMAI
Two questions:
1. Is the e-smith backup in the form of a single file; and
2. What's the workaround? NTFS?
Thanks,
Tom
Darrell May wrote:
> Lee Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > I have tried to backup my e-smith server to my windows98 desk top with
> > 15 gigs free on one box and als
Lotas:
I use DriveImage 4 also, but have never quite determined how to use it with
Linux, as it only images partitions, not entire disks, and the e-smith server
has 3 partitions that have to be precisely imaged and restored. Can you share
your technique?
Thanks,
Tom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot
Thanks, Robert. Other than the transport risks of carrying a hard drive home, I
like it. And, despite the price of 5 or 6 hard drives + removable carriers, it's
still cheaper than DDS-3 or 4, and undoubtedly much faster, too. Do you know if
this little app can do a "modified" backup of those files
other disk
>disconnected - to ensure each will boot and then re-add the other to the
>array to make sure you know how it works.
Have you any thoughts on how to do that with software mirroring (as provided by
e-smith)?
Tom
Graeme Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Thomas E. Keiser wro
Dan:
Just for the sake of perversity, I tried an upgrade install over a good box,
and it does seem to work, installing the packages without formatting the drive. I
did note that it didn't touch any i-bays and didn't try to change the config files
I looked at. All my settings were in place aft
Dan:
You threw me a curve here. I had been told that an "upgrade" install wouldn't
fix a broken installation, only move it to a higher version. Have you tried doing
this? It would surely be another possible solution.
Thanks,
Tom
Dan Brown wrote:
> This, I think, is the biggest differe
ifferent world, where a reinstall fixes
(most) everything ;-).
Regards,
Tom
Dan Brown wrote:
> Quoting "Thomas E. Keiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > 3. Hardware mirroring is now cheap, simple, and easy to recover from
> > or just keep running on one drive u
over the phone, and your precious data is very
much at risk and unavailable until you can get there in person.
So, while hardware raid is nicer than software raid, it is still vulnerable as a
boot drive array in ways that it wouldn't be if it were just a data array.
Regards,
Tom
Darrell May
t sure if you or
anyone else agrees.
Regards,
Tom
Darrell May wrote:
> "Thomas E. Keiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > Basically, the idea is to put a second hard drive, or
> > better yet, a raid array inside the box, and store your data on that.
>
Thanks, Dan, for enlightening me on something that wasn't obvious, and wasn't
previously pointed out. I'd have been very unhappy with the results of my "safer"
arrangement if I hadn't known that.
Tom
Dan York wrote:
> Tom,
>
> > some new discoveries. Basically, the idea is to put a second hard
Lee Roy:
I've been thinking about this problem for a few weeks, since first being
introduced to the e-smith product. As the installation process always destroys
the contents of the hard drive, it is possible to lose your data if for some
reason you have to reinstall. Making a tape backup or d
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